Life Magazine October 24 1938 Sid Luckman Columbia Best Passer Issue

• Original Life Magazine
• October 24, 1938
• Sid Luckman Best Passer Edition

Featured is an October 24, 1938 edition of Life Magazine. The cover athlete for this magazine was Sid Luckman. At Columbia, as a part of the football team, Luckman completed 180 of 376 passes for 2,413 yards and 20 touchdowns and finished third in the 1938 Heisman Trophy voting, behind Davey O'Brien and Marshall Goldberg. Luckman was also a 3 NFL All-Star (194042), 5 First-team All-Pro (194144, 1947), Second-Team All-Pro (1946), 3 NFL passing yards leader (1943, 1945, and 1946), 3 NFL passing touchdowns leader (1943, 1945, and 1946), 3 NFL passer rating leader (1941, 1943, and 1946), named to the NFL 1940s All-Decade Team, had his Chicago Bears No. 42 retired, and tied the NFL record of 7 touchdown passes in a game. Luckman was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965