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Alan Ameche
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Fullback for the Baltimore Colts (1955-1960).
Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975.
Winner of the 1954 Heisman Trophy as the country's outstanding college football player.
Fullback and linebacker on the University of Wisconsin's football team, 1951-1954.
Rushed for 133 yards in the 1953 Rose Bowl.
Selected by the Baltimore Colts in the first round (3rd overall) of the 1955 NFL Draft.
Following his football career, he and Baltimore Colts teammate
Gino Marchetti
founded the Gino's Hamburgers restaurant chain.
Inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1967.
Interred in Calvary Cemetery, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, USA.
Inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1992.
Inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991 (inaugural class).
Led the NFL in rushes (213), rushing yards (961), and rushing touchdowns (9) in 1955.
Inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1982.
Named "Greatest Player" on the University of Wisconsin's All-Time Team in 1969.
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