Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Charley Trippi has died at the age of 100.
The son of a Pennsylvania coal miner, Trippi had a simple explanation for his dazzling array of skills.
He went on to star in the "Dream Backfield" for the Cardinals, leading the franchise to the 1947 NFL championship. The team, which moved to St. Louis in 1960 and then to its current home in Arizona in 1988, has yet to win another title. According to an often-repeated story, Trippi's family could not afford to buy him football cleats but he punted so well in his regular shoes that his high school coach, Paul Shebby, stepped in to make the purchase. One day in punt formation, after the snapper sailed the ball over Trippi's head, he ran back to pick it up and weaved his way to a touchdown that showed he was far more than a one-dimensional player.
Trippi missed the entire 1944 season and part of 1945 serving in the military. He returned to Georgia to finish his college career in 1946. But Trippi wound up signing a then-unprecedented four-year, $100,000 contract with the Cardinals to complete the "Dream Backfield" that also included Elmer Angsman, Paul Christman and Pat Harder.The 1947 title game was played at Comiskey Park, where the Cardinals hosted the Philadelphia Eagles on a baseball-turned-football field coated with a thin sheet of ice on a bitterly cold day.
The Cardinals, who had averaged nearly 33 points a game during an 11-1 regular season, were shut out 7-0 by the Eagles in a thoroughly dismal affair.
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