Bill McColl
William Frazer McColl Jr. (April 2, 1930 – December 28, 2023) was an American athlete, surgeon, and politician. He is best remembered as a college football star before becoming a professional with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), for whom he played from 1952 to 1959. He played college football at Stanford, where he was a two-time consensus All-American and third runner-up in the 1951 Heisman Trophy voting. In 1951, he was the first person to receive the W.J. Voit Memorial Trophy as the outstanding football player on the Pacific Coast.
McColl on a 1953 Bowman football card | |||||||||
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| Born: | April 2, 1930 San Diego, California, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died: | December 28, 2023 (aged 93) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Hoover (San Diego) | ||||||||
| College: | Stanford | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1952 / Round: 3 / Pick: 32 | ||||||||
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McColl was also a three-time candidate for United States Congress, running as a Republican in his native state of California.
McColl was inducted into the San Diego Hall of Champions Breitbard Hall of Fame in 1965. He was also inducted into the Stanford University Athletic Hall of Fame and into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973.