Gale Sayers - Selected Writings By Sayers:

(With Al Silverman) I Am Third, New York: Viking Press, 1970.

Awards and Accomplishments

1961	Named to All-American high school football team
1963-64	Wins college All-American honors
1965	Named NFL's Rookie of the Year
1965-69	Picked to play in Pro Bowl
1966, 1969	Leads NFL in rushing
1968	Founds Gale Sayers Foundation to help young newspaper carriers
1969	Receives George S. Halas Award as "most courageous player in professional football"
1977	Becomes youngest player to be enshrined in Pro Football Hall of Fame
1977	Voted into College Football Hall of Fame
1984	Founds a computer supplies company
1999	Named to Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame

(With Bob Griese) Offensive Football. New York: Atheneum, 1972.

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