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pictured c. 1942 at the University of Minnesota</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">No. 71, 77, 73</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Position:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fullback_(gridiron_football)" title="Fullback (gridiron football)">Fullback</a>, <a href="/wiki/Defensive_back" title="Defensive back">defensive back</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linebacker" title="Linebacker">linebacker</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Personal information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Born:</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1919-09-16</span>)</span>September 16, 1919<br /><a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Minnesota" title="Melrose, Minnesota">Melrose, Minnesota</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Died:</th><td class="infobox-data">October 19, 2015<span style="display:none">(2015-10-19)</span> (aged 96)<br /><a href="/wiki/Edina,_Minnesota" title="Edina, Minnesota">Edina, Minnesota</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">College:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football" title="Minnesota Golden Gophers football">Minnesota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines_football" title="Michigan Wolverines football">Michigan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">NFL draft:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1943_NFL_draft" title="1943 NFL draft">1943</a> / round: 1 / pick: 7<br />(By the <a href="/wiki/Steagles" title="Steagles">Steagles</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career history <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers_(AAFC)" title="Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC)">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miami_Seahawks" title="Miami Seahawks">Miami Seahawks</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Rockets" title="Chicago Rockets">Chicago Rockets</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees_(AAFC)" title="New York Yankees (AAFC)">New York Yankees</a> (1948)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career highlights and awards <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"> <ul><li>2× <a href="/wiki/College_football_national_championships_in_NCAA_Division_I_FBS" title="College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS">National champion</a> (<a href="/wiki/1940_Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football_team" title="1940 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team">1940</a>, <a href="/wiki/1941_Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football_team" title="1941 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team">1941</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unanimous_All-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Unanimous All-American">Unanimous All-American</a> (<a href="/wiki/1943_College_Football_All-America_Team" title="1943 College Football All-America Team">1943</a>)</li> <li>Third-team <a href="/wiki/College_Football_All-America_Team" title="College Football All-America Team">All-American</a> (<a href="/wiki/1942_College_Football_All-America_Team" title="1942 College Football All-America Team">1942</a>)</li> <li>2× First-team <a href="/wiki/List_of_All-Big_Ten_Conference_football_teams" title="List of All-Big Ten Conference football teams">All-Big Ten</a> (<a href="/wiki/1941_All-Big_Ten_Conference_football_team" title="1941 All-Big Ten Conference football team">1941</a>, <a href="/wiki/1943_All-Big_Ten_Conference_football_team" title="1943 All-Big Ten Conference football team">1943</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career NFL statistics</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width:50%;">Rushing<br />attempts–yards:</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding-left:3px;">175–612</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width:50%;"><a href="/wiki/Reception_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Reception (American football)">Receptions</a>–yards:</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding-left:3px;">18–142</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width:50%;"><a href="/wiki/Touchdown" title="Touchdown">Touchdowns</a>:</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding-left:3px;">5</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="padding-left:3px;"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DaleBi20.htm">Stats</a> at <a href="/wiki/Pro_Football_Reference" title="Pro Football Reference">Pro Football Reference</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Edward Daley</b> (September 16, 1919 – October 19, 2015) was an <a href="/wiki/College_Football_All-America_Team" title="College Football All-America Team">All-American</a> <a href="/wiki/Fullback_(gridiron_football)" title="Fullback (gridiron football)">fullback</a> who played for the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a> <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football" title="Minnesota Golden Gophers football">Golden Gophers</a> from 1940 to 1942 and for the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines_football" title="Michigan Wolverines football">Wolverines</a> in 1943. The Gophers were <a href="/wiki/College_football_national_championships_in_NCAA_Division_I_FBS" title="College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS">national champions</a> in his freshman and sophomore years. </p><p>He enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> in 1943 and was assigned to the <a href="/wiki/V-12_Navy_College_Training_Program" title="V-12 Navy College Training Program">V-12 Navy College Training Program</a> at the University of Michigan. He played football for the Wolverines in 1943 where he <a href="/wiki/Rush_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rush (American football)">rushed</a> for 817 yards in just six games before being reassigned by the Navy. Based on his performance in 1943, he was named a <a href="/wiki/Unanimous_All-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Unanimous All-American">unanimous All-American</a> and finished sixth in the <a href="/wiki/Heisman_Trophy" title="Heisman Trophy">Heisman Trophy</a> voting. Daley has the unique status of having played in and won <a href="/wiki/Little_Brown_Jug_(college_football_trophy)" title="Little Brown Jug (college football trophy)">Little Brown Jug</a> games for both Minnesota and Michigan, compiling a record of 4–0 in those contests. </p><p>After active service in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_theater_of_World_War_II" title="Pacific Ocean theater of World War II">Pacific Theater</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Daley played professional football for three years in the <a href="/wiki/All-America_Football_Conference" title="All-America Football Conference">All-America Football Conference</a> (AAFC) with the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers_(AAFC)" title="Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC)">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> (1946), the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Seahawks" title="Miami Seahawks">Miami Seahawks</a> (1946), the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Rockets" title="Chicago Rockets">Chicago Rockets</a> (1947), and the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees_(AAFC)" title="New York Yankees (AAFC)">New York Yankees</a> (1948). He later was one of the <a href="/wiki/Radio_announcer" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio announcer">radio announcers</a> for <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football" title="Minnesota Golden Gophers football">Minnesota Golden Gophers football</a> for ten years and for the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings" title="Minnesota Vikings">Minnesota Vikings</a> when they first arrived in Minnesota. </p><p>Beginning in 1973, he owned and operated the Daley Illustration Gallery in downtown <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Daley_(American_football)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Daley was born and raised in <a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Minnesota" title="Melrose, Minnesota">Melrose, Minnesota</a>. After graduating from high school in <a href="/wiki/St._Cloud,_Minnesota" title="St. Cloud, Minnesota">St. Cloud, Minnesota</a>, Daley moved to <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> to pursue a career as a <a href="/wiki/Boxing" title="Boxing">boxer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gopherhole_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gopherhole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Daley attended <a href="/wiki/DePaul_University" title="DePaul University">DePaul University</a> in Chicago, where he met a <a href="/wiki/Track_and_field" title="Track and field">track and field</a> <a href="/wiki/Coach_(sport)" title="Coach (sport)">coach</a> who persuaded him to pursue football.<sup id="cite_ref-Gopherhole_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gopherhole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="University_of_Minnesota">University of Minnesota</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Daley_(American_football)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: University of Minnesota"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Daley enrolled at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a> where he played football from 1940 to 1942. He played on two <a href="/wiki/College_football_national_championships_in_NCAA_Division_I_FBS" title="College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS">national championship</a> teams at Minnesota in 1940 and 1941, and the Gophers narrowly missed a third national championship in 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-Cnockaert_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cnockaert-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Gophers beat Michigan in the <a href="/wiki/Little_Brown_Jug_(college_football_trophy)" title="Little Brown Jug (college football trophy)">Little Brown Jug</a> game all three years Daley played there. In 1940, the Gophers beat <a href="/wiki/Tom_Harmon" title="Tom Harmon">Tom Harmon</a>'s Wolverines 7–6. Harmon missed an <a href="/wiki/Conversion_(gridiron_football)" title="Conversion (gridiron football)">extra point</a> that cost Michigan the game. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="University_of_Michigan">University of Michigan</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Daley_(American_football)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: University of Michigan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the 1942 season, Daley enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>. Because of his college background, Daley was selected to attend a <a href="/wiki/Midshipman" title="Midshipman">midshipman</a> academy at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. He was ordered to report to the University of Michigan because it had a <a href="/wiki/V-12_Navy_College_Training_Program" title="V-12 Navy College Training Program">V-12 Navy College Training Program</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bentley_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bentley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He stayed in <a href="/wiki/Ann_Arbor,_Michigan" title="Ann Arbor, Michigan">Ann Arbor</a> for only six months while waiting for an opening in the program at Columbia.<sup id="cite_ref-Cnockaert_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cnockaert-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While in Ann Arbor, recruits were required to remain in good physical shape and were given two choices: either participate in Navy fitness classes or work out with the Michigan football team. Michigan's football coach <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Crisler" title="Fritz Crisler">Fritz Crisler</a> took advantage of the opportunity and convinced Daley to play for his football team, as Daley had one year of eligibility remaining.<sup id="cite_ref-Gopherhole_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gopherhole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He played for Michigan in 1943 where he was the nation's fourth best ground gainer despite playing in only six games. Daley's speed and power helped the Wolverines tie <a href="/wiki/Purdue_Boilermakers_football" title="Purdue Boilermakers football">Purdue</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference" title="Big Ten Conference">Big Ten Conference</a> title. Daley averaged 6.8 yards per carry and scored nine <a href="/wiki/Touchdown" title="Touchdown">touchdowns</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bentley_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bentley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He carried the ball 120 times, rushed for 817 yards and added another 119 yards on six <a href="/wiki/Punt_return" class="mw-redirect" title="Punt return">punt returns</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bentley_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bentley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to his six touchdowns, he kicked three <a href="/wiki/Conversion_(gridiron_football)" title="Conversion (gridiron football)">extra points</a>, for a total of 57 points scored.<sup id="cite_ref-Bentley_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bentley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His best game came on October 2, 1943, at <a href="/wiki/Evanston,_Illinois" title="Evanston, Illinois">Evanston, Illinois</a>, as Michigan beat <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_Wildcats_football" title="Northwestern Wildcats football">Northwestern</a>, 21–7 win. In that game, Daley gained 216 yards and scored two touchdowns in 26 carries.<sup id="cite_ref-Cnockaert_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cnockaert-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his final college football game, he helped the Wolverines win back the Little Brown Jug that he had helped the Gophers secure from 1940 to 1942. He holds the distinction of being the only player to win Little Brown Jug games playing for both Minnesota and Michigan.<sup id="cite_ref-Cnockaert_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cnockaert-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jug_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jug-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Asked at the time about having the opportunity to battle for the Little Brown Jug from the other side of the fence, Daley denied having qualms about playing his former teammates: "It will have to be just another game. I look at it just as though it were an <a href="/wiki/Exhibition_game" title="Exhibition game">intrasquad scrimmage</a>. There won't be any qualms about how hard I hit my teammates or how hard they hit me."<sup id="cite_ref-Jug_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jug-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He did note, though, that he wanted his last college football game to be memorable: "If this is going to be my last game, I'd really like it to be one I can remember."<sup id="cite_ref-Jug_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jug-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Daley later recalled the significance of the Little Brown Jug in the years he played: "We were always told to never lose this game. Winning the Little Brown Jug was very important to us. Fortunately I was able to go 4-0 in Little Brown Jug games while playing for both teams."<sup id="cite_ref-Gopherhole_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gopherhole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Daley recalled that it was strange playing against his former Gopher teammates in the 1943 Jug game: "It was strange as I was playing against my teammates and friends, but I think it was the idea of winning the Little Brown Jug that motivated me. We beat Minnesota 49-6 and the Jug came to Michigan. It was a wild story."<sup id="cite_ref-Gopherhole_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gopherhole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Michigan victory snapped a nine-game losing streak to the Gophers. In addition to Daley, the 1943 Michigan team also benefited from the arrival of another wartime transfer, Pro Football Hall of Famer <a href="/wiki/Elroy_Hirsch" title="Elroy Hirsch">Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch</a> from Wisconsin. The press referred to Daley and Hirsch as "a pair of 'lend-lease' satellites."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was named an All-American by the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> and <a href="/wiki/Collier%27s_Weekly" class="mw-redirect" title="Collier's Weekly">Collier's</a>/<a href="/wiki/Grantland_Rice" title="Grantland Rice">Grantland Rice</a>, and he finished seventh in the Heisman Trophy voting.<sup id="cite_ref-Cnockaert_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cnockaert-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Daley was named an All-American along with <a href="/wiki/Otto_Graham" title="Otto Graham">Otto Graham</a> in the backfield, one reporter referred to Daley as "Minnesota's gift to Michigan by way of the Navy V-12 class."<sup id="cite_ref-AllAmerican_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AllAmerican-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The article noted that Daley was a speedster who could run 100 yards in 10 seconds.<sup id="cite_ref-AllAmerican_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AllAmerican-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He gained 817 yards in just six games before being moved elsewhere by the Navy. </p><p>Though he never planned to play for Michigan, Daley looked back on the opportunity as a stroke of luck. "I was a lucky guy. I got to play for two great schools, but playing at Michigan was one of the greatest thrills I could have had. When I was at Michigan, I was the happiest guy in the world."<sup id="cite_ref-Cnockaert_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cnockaert-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Asked what it means to have played an important part in the football traditions at both Minnesota and Michigan, Daley said: "It means a lot to me. Both programs have been so wonderful to me long after I played. I am a member of both Hall of Fames and that is very special." Daley said his one disappointment about his college football career was that he never played on a team that beat <a href="/wiki/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football" title="Notre Dame Fighting Irish football">Notre Dame</a>. In 1943 Michigan lost to Notre Dame, 35–12. Despite 135 yards on 24 carries by Daley (the most yards gained on Notre Dame by any back in 1943),<sup id="cite_ref-AllAmerican_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AllAmerican-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Michigan suffered its only loss to Notre Dame. Said Daley, "I wanted to beat them so bad, and I played one of the best games of my life, but it wasn't to be."<sup id="cite_ref-Cnockaert_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cnockaert-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_service">Military service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Daley_(American_football)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Military service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After spending six months in Ann Arbor, Daley went on to Columbia University where he was a Regimental Commander for Columbia University's Naval unit.<sup id="cite_ref-Gopherhole_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gopherhole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After graduating from midshipman school at <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth,_Virginia" title="Portsmouth, Virginia">Portsmouth, Virginia</a>, Daley went to Florida for amphibious training. He was on his way to the Pacific Theater when the war ended in August 1945. He remained overseas for a time, and played in an Army-Navy football game in <a href="/wiki/Shanghai" title="Shanghai">Shanghai</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cnockaert_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cnockaert-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Professional_football">Professional football</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Daley_(American_football)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Professional football"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Daley was selected by the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Steelers" title="Pittsburgh Steelers">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> as the seventh overall selection of the <a href="/wiki/1943_NFL_draft" title="1943 NFL draft">1943 NFL draft</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but he never played for the team. </p><p>After the war, Daley signed a $30,000 contract to play professional football in the new <a href="/wiki/All-America_Football_Conference" title="All-America Football Conference">All-America Football Conference</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cnockaert_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cnockaert-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He played four seasons with the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers_(AAFC)" title="Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC)">Brooklyn Dodgers</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Seahawks" title="Miami Seahawks">Miami Seahawks</a> the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Rockets" title="Chicago Rockets">Chicago Rockets</a>, and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees_(AAFC)" title="New York Yankees (AAFC)">New York Yankees</a>. Daley recalled that football players "didn't get paid much during those days, but did it for the love of the game." In comparing college and professional football in the 1940s, Daley noted: "I think most of us enjoyed the college days better."<sup id="cite_ref-Gopherhole_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gopherhole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Daley's best season in professional football was 1947, when he played with Chicago. He played in 14 games for the Rockets and had 633 yards of total offense: 447 yards rushing (including a 52-yard run) in 121 carries; 116 yards receiving on 12 catches; and 70 yards passing with three completions in six passes.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Broadcasting_career">Broadcasting career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Daley_(American_football)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Broadcasting career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following a career in professional football, Daley returned to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a> and got his degree in education. He spent ten years in the broadcast booth for the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Golden_Gophers" title="Minnesota Golden Gophers">Minnesota Golden Gophers</a> with Dick Enroth and Ray Christensen. He also did a few years of color analysis on radio broadcasts of the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings" title="Minnesota Vikings">Minnesota Vikings</a> when the franchise began in the early 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-Gopherhole_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gopherhole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Daley_Illustration_Gallery">Daley Illustration Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Daley_(American_football)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Daley Illustration Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:051907-004-NicolletMall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/051907-004-NicolletMall.jpg/150px-051907-004-NicolletMall.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/051907-004-NicolletMall.jpg/225px-051907-004-NicolletMall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/051907-004-NicolletMall.jpg/300px-051907-004-NicolletMall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption>Nicollet Mall on a Saturday morning</figcaption></figure> <p>Daley had always been passionate about art, but according to Daley, he "never had the talent to paint or draw at a high level." He became an art collector. In the early 1970s, Daley and his wife, Melba, opened their first studio. In approximately 1974, they then opened the Daly Illustration Art Gallery in the <a href="/wiki/Hyatt" title="Hyatt">Hyatt Regency Hotel</a> in downtown Minneapolis.<sup id="cite_ref-Gopherhole_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gopherhole-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1974 until his death, Daley has owned and operated Daley Illustration Gallery located in the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 1300 <a href="/wiki/Nicollet_Mall" title="Nicollet Mall">Nicollet Mall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis,_Minnesota" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis, Minnesota">Minneapolis, Minnesota</a>. The Daley Illustration Gallery has 500 original illustrations, making it one of the finest illustration painting collections in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-Gallery_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gallery-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 1993 interview, Daley said, "Some people just come in to talk football, but don't know much about painting."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Daley_(American_football)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Daley married his wife, Melba, in 1972. </p><p>He died on October 19, 2015, at the age of 96.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1983, A Century of All Americans chose Daley as one of the All Time Football Fullbacks. In 2005 Daley was selected as one of the 100 greatest Michigan football players of all time by the "Motown Sports Revival," ranking 63rdt on the all-time team.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Daley_(American_football)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Michigan_Wolverines_football_All-Americans" title="List of Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans">List of Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 9,</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=100+Greatest+Michigan+Football+Players+of+All-Time&rft.pub=Motown+Sports+Revival&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmotownsportsrevival.blogspot.com%2F2005%2F08%2F100-greatest-michigan-football-players.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Daley+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <dl><dt>Sources</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/fballam/aadaleyw.htm">Bentley Library profile and photograph of Daley</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071111180151/http://www.gopherhole.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=443">Gopherhole Profile and Interview with Daley, 2005</a></li> <li>Jim Cnockaert, <i>Michigan: Where Have You Gone</i> (Sports Publishing 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Harmon" title="Tom Harmon">Tom Harmon</a> (1938–1940)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bob_Westfall" title="Bob Westfall">Bob Westfall</a> (1941)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bob_Wiese" title="Bob Wiese">Bob Wiese</a> (1942)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bill Daley</a> (1943)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bob_Nussbaumer" title="Bob Nussbaumer">Bob Nussbaumer</a> (1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Wally_Teninga" title="Wally Teninga">Wally Teninga</a> (1945)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bob_Chappuis" title="Bob Chappuis">Bob Chappuis</a> (1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Weisenburger" title="Jack Weisenburger">Jack Weisenburger</a> (1947)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Tom Peterson 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