Paddy Driscoll
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Quarterback, Great Lakes Navy (from Northwestern), 1915–⁠18

Paddy Driscoll

Born
Jan 11, 1896, in Evanston, Illinois
Died
Jun 29, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois

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Paddy Driscoll played quarterback at Northwestern (1915–⁠16) and Great Lakes Navy (1918). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974.

Honors

All-America: Walter Camp third team 1916; UP second team 1916

The teams in those years

Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.

In the NFL

First-team All-Pro: 6 (1922–⁠23, 1925–⁠28) · Second-team All-Pro: 1924

All-Pro teams: Green Bay Press-Gazette first team 1923, 1925–⁠27; Collyer’s Eye first team 1923, 1925–⁠26; CT first team 1926–⁠28; Chicago Daily News first team 1922; GC first team 1923; GH first team 1922; and 3 more.

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