샌프란시스코 포티나이너스의 전 하프백 휴 맥엘헤니가 향년을 맞았다. 93, 프로축구 명예의 전당, 목요일 발표.
McElhenny는 6월에 사망했습니다. 17 자연적인 원인, 홀이 말했다.
“Hugh McElhenny was a threat in all phases of the game offensively — 서두르는, pass receiving and as a kick and punt returner,” 명예의 전당 회장 짐 포터는 성명에서. “His all-around talent — obvious to pro football scouts when Hugh was still a teenager — will be celebrated and preserved forever in Canton.”
McElhenny was enshrined into the Hall of Fame in 1970.
Nicknamed “왕,” McElhenny was a two-time first-team All-Pro and six-time Pro Bowler over the course of his 13-year career playing in NFL for the 49ers, 미네소타 바이킹스, New York Giants and Detroit Lions.
McElhenny, the ninth pick in the 1952 draft out of the University of Washington, was named Rookie of the Year and an All-Pro in his first season.
그는 은퇴 후 1964 season and at the time was one of only three players with more than 11,000 all-purpose yards (11,375). He worked as an analyst on the 49ers radio broadcasts for six years.
The 49ers retired his uniform number 39 에 1971.
