Ed Sprinkle

  • Chicago Bears (1944-1955)
  • 4 × Pro Bowl selection ( 1950-1952, 1954)
  • 5 × All-Pro selection ( 1949-1952, 1954) 1 2 team
  • NFL 1940s All- Decade Team
  • Chicago Bears Ring of Honor
  • Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame
  • Hardin - Simmons Athletic Hall of Fame (1990 )
  • NFL Champion (1946 )

Edward Alexander Sprinkle (* September 3, 1923 in Bradshaw, Texas, USA) Nickname: The Claw ( German: The Claw ) is a former American professional American football player. He played as a defensive end for the Chicago Bears in the National Football League ( NFL).

Career as a player

Sprinkle is the son of a Texas farmer and studied at the Hardin - Simmons University before the Naval Academy U.S. joined. At both institutions he played American football. In 1944 he was awarded with the Chicago Bears, coached by Hunk Anderson a contract and first played in the Offense and the Defense of the team. Due to his speed he was, however, increasingly being used in the course of his career as an end and as a defensive end. His head coach George Halas, who took over as coach for the Bears in 1946, had recognized that Sprinkle was an outstanding pass rusher and it regularly succeeded the opposing offensive line to run. In the face of the fact that evolved from American football running game to a game in which the winning pass throw more and more important, the skills of Sprinkle for his team were a decisive advantage. Sprinkle with the Bears in 1946 won the NFL Championship Game. The Bears were occupied excellent this year with players like Sid Luckman, Ken Kavanaugh, Joe and Bill Osmanski, and George McAfee and Bulldog Turner. In the final, the New York Giants were beaten with 24:14.

Sprinkle finished in 1955 after 12 years with the Bears game his career.

Honors

Sprinkle is a member of the NFL 1940s All- Decade team in the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame, in the Hardin - Simmons Athletic Hall of Fame and the Chicago Bears Ring of Honor, he was elected to the All-Pro five times and played in four Pro Bowls, the season's final game of the best players of the season.

After the career

Ed Sprinkle was after his career businessman in Chicago.

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