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CHIC HARLEY=100 YEARS-It’s time folks-Can we get a bronze statue in his honor @ The Shoe?

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November 5, 2016 at 5:02pm
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CHIC HARLEY – THE GREATEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER IN HISTORY

3 TIME ALL AMERICA 1916,1917,1919 (1918 SERVED IN ARMY WWI)
1916 OSU WENT 7-0 WON 1ST BIG 10 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP
1917 OSU WENT 8-0-1 REPEATED AS CONFERENCE CHAMPS
1919 OSU LEAD BY HARLEY BEATS MICHIGAN FOR TITLE
MICHIGAN COACH “YOST” PERSONALLY CONGRATULATES “CHIC”
HARLEY PLAYED HALF BACK SCORING 23 TOUCHDOWNS
HARLEY ALSO WAS PLACE KICKER & KICKED 39 EXTRA POINTS
HARLEY ALSO WAS FIELD GOAL KICKER WITH 8 FIELD GOALS
HARLEY AVERAGED 8.74 POINTS PER GAME A SCHOOL RECORD
HARLEY ALSO STARTED ON DEFENSE IN THE SAFETY POSITION
HE INTERCEPTED MICHIGAN A RECORD “FOUR” TIMES IN ONE GAME
HARLEY PACKED “OHIO FIELD” EACH WEEK WITH 20,000 CAPACITY
HARLEY’S POPULARITY LEAD TO THE BUILDING OF THE “SHOE”
MANY CALL OHIO STADIUM “THE HOUSE THAT HARLEY BUILT”
HARLEY IS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
HARLEY WAS VOTED FIRST TEAM HALFBACK IN 1950 BY THE AP
THE OTHER WAS JIM THORPE & RED GRANGE WAS 2ND TEAM
HARLEY WAS A RUNNER, KICKER, PUNTER & DEFENSIVE BACK
HARLEY’S ONLY LOSS WAS BY A FIELD GOAL IN THE LAST 8 SECONDS
HARLEY ALSO LETTERED AS AN OUTFIELDER IN BASEBALL
HARLEY WAS ON THE 1917 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM
HARLEY ALSO LETTERED AS A GUARD IN BASKETBALL
HARLEY WAS A SPRINTER IN TRACK SETTING A 50 YARD DASH RECORD
HARLEY WAS INDUCTED INTO OSU HALL OF FAME IN 1977
HARLEY’S JERSEY NUMBER “47” WAS RETIRED IN 2004 AT HALFTIME
“CHIC HARLEY AWARD” PRESENTED ANNUALLY TO CFB PLAYER OF YR.
“SCRIPT OHIO” WAS ALTERED ONCE IN HISTORY TO SPELL OUT “CHIC”
CHIC HARLEY DIED IN 1974 AT 79 YRS & RESTS IN UNION CEMETERY

 

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