1943 Chicago All-Star Game
On August 25, 1943 The annual charity Chicago All-Star Game was played August 25 at Dyche Stadium in Evanston, Illinois. The game pitted the 1942 NFL champion Washington Redskins against a select college all-star team that featured Northwestern tailback Otto GrahamIronically, the future Hall of Famer Graham made his greatest mark in the game as a defender, picking off a pass from Redskins’ trigger-man Sammy Baugh and taking it back 97 yards for a touchdown. The College stars won the game convincingly, 27–7 — their first triumph over the standing NFL champs since 1938. Star of the game was Wisconsin fullback Pat Harder, the second overall pick in the 1944 NFL draft, who scored once by air and once by land, successfully kicking two extra points to boot
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