Gale E. Sayers

(1943- ) lived in Omaha. College and professional football player, athletic director, played for Chicago Bears, then was inducted into Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1977, the youngest person ever inducted; became president and CEO of Crest Computer Supply founded in 1982. Consult Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Football (Greenwood Press, 1987) 524-525 and Omaha World Herald, June 16, 1991, pp. A-1, A-9 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures, Vol 2 (2002) 337-338.

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