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1912–13 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

In addition to coaching basketball, Jones was head coach of the Chicago Bears from 1930–33, where, among other achievements, he was credited with the revival of the T-formation and the use of a man in motion to throw off the defense.

1921 APFA season

The Staleys, who moved from Decatur, Illinois, to Chicago before the season, were named the APFA Champions over the Buffalo All-Americans.

The Chicago Staleys (to be renamed the Chicago Bears after the end of the season), led by wide receiver George Halas, and the Buffalo All-Americans, led by quarterback Tommy Hughitt, were the two top teams in the league; each playing all of their games at home, Buffalo and Chicago amassed 6–0 records in league play.

A New Day Cambodia

ANDC was founded in 2006 by Bill Smith, the team photographer for the Chicago Bears, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls and United Center.

Albert Baisy

Albert Baisy (September 6, 1917 in Norton, West Virginia – April 16, 2005) is a former offensive lineman in the NFL for the Chicago Bears, and Philadelphia Eagles.

Barry Minter

Barry Antoine Minter (born January 28, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Texas) is a former National Football League linebacker for the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns.

Bear Down, Chicago Bears

We'll never forget the way you thrilled the nation with your T formation.

Blake Brockermeyer

Blake Weeks Brockermeyer (born April 11, 1973 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American football offensive tackle who formerly played for the Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears, and Denver Broncos in the NFL.

Bobby Z.

In junior high school, he formed a small touring band in the Minneapolis area that included future Chicago Bears football coach Marc Trestman on rhythm guitar.

Brandon Lloyd

On March 7, 2008, Lloyd signed a one-year deal with the Chicago Bears after the release of Muhsin Muhammad and the loss of Bernard Berrian to free agency.

Charles R. Meyer

This time the Army ace outdueled famed Columbia passer and future Chicago Bears Hall of Fame quarterback Sid Luckman as the Black Knights prevailed, 27-16, over the Lions.

Charlie Peprah

On December 31 against the Chicago Bears, Peprah pushed Bernard Berrian out of bounds after Berrian completed a punt return for seven yards.

Chic Harley

Following his college playing career, Harley was contacted by George Halas to play for the NFL team Halas was organizing, a team that would ultimately become the Chicago Bears.

Chicago Public High School League

Some coordinators handle multiple sports: one example is Mickey Pruitt, a graduate of Robeson and former member of the Chicago Bears.

Chris Samuels

Samuels was fined $12,500 for delivering an illegal chop block that injured Antonio Garay of the Chicago Bears during a game in 2007.

Cookie Cunningham

After the folding of the AFL, he played the same position for the Cleveland Bulldogs (1927), Chicago Bears (1929), and the Staten Island Stapletons (1931) of the National Football League.

Dan Neal

Dan Neal (born August 30, 1949 in Corbin, Kentucky) is a former American Football player who played offensive line for eleven seasons between 1973 and 1983 for the Baltimore Colts and the Chicago Bears.

Danny McCray

After two seasons of playing in defensive packages as a hybrid linebacker and safety, in 2012 he got his first career start at strong safety against the Chicago Bears, replacing Barry Church who suffered a season ending achilles injury.

Don Lund

Although drafted in the 1st round of the NFL draft in 1945 by the Chicago Bears as a running back, Lund felt baseball would be the better career choice.

Ed O'Bradovich

O'Bradovich played himself in the television movies Brian's Song, starring James Caan as Brian Piccolo, and Coach of the Year, starring Robert Conrad as former Chicago Bears player Jim Brandon.

Emure

It became much better known after the king of Emure's grandson Adewale Ogunleye made it into the NFL for the Chicago Bears.

George Seals

George Edward Seals (born October 2, 1942 in Higginsville, Missouri) is a former American football offensive and defensive lineman in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears, and the Kansas City Chiefs.

Guy McIntyre

McIntyre was one of the first linemen in the modern age of the NFL to be used as a blocking back/fullback (in Bill Walsh's "Elephant" short-yardage formation); it was when this offense was used in the 1984 NFC Conference Championship Game in the defeat of the Chicago Bears that motivated Bears coach Mike Ditka to use the same formation the following year, with William Perry, the "Refrigerator" as the blocking back, though Perry would also be used as a runner.

Isiah Thomas

Thomas came together with Joakim Noah, Taj Gibson, Quentin Richardson, Zach Randolph, the Chicago BearsJ'Marcus Webb, pastor Michael Pfleger, and others to throw this event in order to reduce gang violence through communication and basketball.

Jim Cornelison

In the 2010-2011 NFL playoffs, Cornelison also sang the anthem for the Chicago Bears.

Jimmy Raye III

In 2012, Chicago Bears general manager Jerry Angelo was fired, and Raye was one of four candidates for the job.

Josh Beekman

After being released by the Chicago Bears in September 2010, Beekman became a member of the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League and the Tuskers played in the 2010 UFL Championship Game.

Lea County, New Mexico

Brian Urlacher, Chicago Bears football linebacker (2000-2012), represented Lea County in the National Football League.

M. David Stirling

He excelled in track and football at Principia and even received offers to try out for the San Diego Chargers and the Chicago Bears of the National Football League.

Maury Youmans

Maurice Edward Youmans (born October 16, 1936 in Eagle Bay, New York) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys.

Midway Plaisance

The proximity of the Midway to the University gave the school's early football teams, the Maroons, a second nickname, "Monsters of the Midway", a name later applied to the Chicago Bears when the University of Chicago dropped its football program.

Moon Ducote

On January 9, 1926, he played as a member of the Southern All-Stars, which lost an exhibition game, 14–0, to the Red Grange-led Chicago Bears.

New Hampshire Wildcats

Jerry Azumah Performance Center at the Field House is named after Chicago Bears player Jerry Azumah who played college football for UNH.

Nickel defense

The nickel defense originated as an innovation of Philadelphia Eagles defensive coach Jerry Williams in 1960 as a measure to defend against star tight end Mike Ditka of the Chicago Bears.

Player-coach

During the 1920s, legendary player-coaches in the NFL include Curly Lambeau (who played for the Green Bay Packers from 1919-1929, and served as their head coach from 1919-1949) and George Halas who held similar roles for the Chicago Bears, a team for which he was also part-owner and business manager.

Pride of Indiana

The band has also performed in halftime programs for the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts, and has been the featured group at the Brickyard 400, beginning that tradition with the inaugural race in 1994.

Ralph Kohl

After the 1964 season, Kohl resigned his position as the head coach at Eastern Illinois to accept a job a scout for BLESTO, an NFL scouting combine that was an acronym for the Bears, Lions, Eagles and Steelers Talent Organization.

Raymond R. Schumacher

He played in the 2 Aug 1947 College Football All-America Team vs Chicago Bears which set the record attendance (105,840) for American football.

Upon returning home, Ray played for the Akron Bears before George Halas signed both Raymond and his brother Harold to the Chicago Bears at the same time.

Richard E. Meyer

Late in that year, he wrote the lyrics for and produced the Chicago Bears' novelty record, "The Super Bowl Shuffle".

Rochester Jeffersons

After an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to lure Red Grange to Rochester (he instead signed with the Chicago Bears), the team suspended operations after the 1925 NFL season; by this point, the team had been losing money (to the point where Lyons' house had been foreclosed upon because of his dumping of virtually all his assets into the team) and had been a traveling team for two seasons (1920 and 1925).

Scott Couper

On July 27, 1997, Couper was included on the Chicago Bears roster for one of the "American Bowl" preseason matches against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Croke Park, Dublin.

Squib kick

In Super Bowl XLI, the Indianapolis Colts decided to squib kick five of six subsequent kickoffs after Devin Hester of the Chicago Bears returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown.

Trey Wingo

He also hosts ESPN's Who's No. 1?, and one of his favorite quotes is former Arizona Cardinals head coach Dennis Green saying about the Chicago Bears, after they blew an upset chance, "They are who we thought they were!"

Vic Rapp

After his firing, Rapp served as an assistant with the Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and Arizona Cardinals.

Western Illinois University Marching Leathernecks

Their performances have included half-time shows for the Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams, Indianapolis Colts, and Chicago Bears of the National Football League, as well as exhibition performances at the Bands of America Regional Championships at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri and at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana.


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