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Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970). Cal Poly Mustangs football team: 16 players and 6 others died in an airplane crash (1960). Southwestern Oklahoma State : 4 football players were killed in a car crash (1996).
Willie "the Wisp" Galimore (March 30, 1935 – July 27, 1964) was an American professional football player who played halfback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 to 1963. Tragically, his NFL career was cut short with his death at age 29 in a traffic accident just ahead of the 1964 season.
His son Fred Washington Jr., a defensive tackle at Texas Christian University, was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the second round of the 1990 NFL draft, but was killed in a car accident during his rookie season. [2]
The 38-year-old former football player died of heatstroke, ... He was traded to the Chicago Bears in 2011 before he announced his retirement in March 2012. ... Woman indicted in car crash that ...
Fred Earl Washington (July 11, 1967 – December 21, 1990) was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle for one season with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the TCU Horned Frogs before being selected by the Bears in the second round of the 1990 NFL draft. [1]
John R. "Bo" Farrington (January 18, 1936 – July 27, 1964) was an American football player for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He attended Prairie View A&M University . Farrington made history with Bill Wade when (in Wade's first start as quarterback) he received a 98-yard touchdown pass on October 8, 1961.
Kelvin Kiptum of Kenya celebrates his Chicago Marathon world record victory in Chicago’s Grant Park on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Kiptum died in a car crash in Kenya late Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. He ...
Chicago left Tempe victorious; it was the Bears' first matchup against the Cardinals since Chicago visited the Cardinals in St. Louis six years earlier. Late in the season, tragedy struck when defensive tackle Fred Washington, the Bears' second-round pick in the 1990 NFL draft, was killed in a car accident on December 21, 1990. [1]