Johnny Bright
Running back, American football player
1930 – 1983
Who was Johnny Bright?
Johnny D. Bright was a professional Canadian football player in the Canadian Football League. He played college football at Drake University. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame, the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame, the Edmonton Eskimos Wall of Honour, the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame, and the Des Moines Register's Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.
In 1951, Bright was named a First Team College Football All-American, and was awarded the Nils V. "Swede" Nelson Sportsmanship Award. In 1969, Bright was named Drake University's greatest football player of all time. Bright is the only Drake football player to have his jersey number retired by the school, and in June 2006, received honorable mention from ESPN.com senior writer Ivan Maisel as one of the best college football players to ever wear No. 43. In February 2006, the football field at Drake Stadium, in Des Moines, Iowa, was named in his honor. In November 2006, Bright was voted one of the CFL's Top 50 players of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN.
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- Born
- Jun 11, 1930
Fort Wayne - Nationality
- United States of America
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Drake University
- Lived in
- Fort Wayne
- Died
- Dec 14, 1983
Edmonton
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on July 23, 2013
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