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Charles Ray Hunsinger (July 25, 1925 – March 23, 1998) was an American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL) for six seasons during the 1950s. Hunsinger played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Chicago Bears of the NFL and the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL.
Hunsinger was born in Harrisburg, Illinois in 1925.[1] He attended Harrisburg High School,[2] and played for the Harrisburg Bulldogs high school football team.
Hunsinger attended the [3] He was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection in 1948 and 1949.[3]
Hunsinger graduated from the Florida with a bachelor's degree in 1950, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great."[6]
The Chicago Bears selected Hunsinger in the first round (third pick overall) of the 1950 NFL Draft,[7] and he had a three-year career with the Bears, from 1950 to 1952.[8] He played thirty-four games in all, rushing for 834 yards (his best year was 1951 with 369) and catching twenty-three passes.[8] Hunsinger also returned punts and kickoffs, and was the fourth-ranked kick returner in the league in 1950, averaging 28.6 yards per return.[1]
Hunsinger also played three years (twenty-seven games from 1953 to 1955) with the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL.[9] He compiled his best CFL season statistically in 1954, when he rushed eighty-six times for 516 yards and six touchdowns, and caught twenty-two passes for 421 yards and two more touchdowns.[9] He is most remembered, however, for one play in 1954's 42nd Grey Cup.[10] His Alouettes were leading by five points in the final minutes of the game, and were threatening to add to the lead with the ball on the Edmonton Eskimos' ten yard-line. In a 1968 interview with The Toronto Star, Hunsinger recalled,
Canadian Football Hall of Fame great Parker returned the ball a record ninety yards to score the game-winning touchdown. It was one of the greatest plays in Grey Cup history.
Hunsinger recounted picking up his wife at Toronto's Royal York Hotel after the game, and heading straight home to Harrisburg with a sick feeling in his stomach. He also recalled the elation of arriving at his home to find an 800-foot-long "Cheer up, Chuck" telegram with the signatures of 21,947 Montreal Alouettes fans.[11]
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