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<mask> (, born 22 February 1969) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a winger, forward or as a midfielder. Regarded as one the most talented players of his generation. He currently works as a football commentator, pundit and analyst on Kanal 5 and 6'eren. Along with former international goalkeeper Lars Høgh, Laudrup manages a football academy for marginalised youth. During his playing career which eventually stalled due to injury, Laudrup represented a number of European clubs. He started with Danish club Brøndby, winning two Danish championships in the late 1980s. He then played for German and Italian clubs, winning the 1993–94 Serie A as well as the 1994 UEFA Champions League title with Milan.He was a vital part of the Rangers team which dominated the Scottish Premier Division in the 1990s, winning three championships, among others. He won the 1998 UEFA Super Cup in his brief stint with English club Chelsea, and had a brief spell with Copenhagen in Denmark, before ending his career with Ajax in 2000. Laudrup also played 82 matches and scored 21 goals for the Denmark national team, and was a vital part of the Danish teams which won UEFA Euro 1992 and the 1995 Confederations Cup. Laudrup won the Danish Football Player of the Year award a record four times. He was named by FIFA as the fifth-best player in the world in 1992 and was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers at the FIFA 100 ceremony in March 2004, alongside his older brother <mask>. Early life
<mask> was born into a football family – his father <mask> was a former Danish international, and his brother <mask> also became a Danish international. <mask> was born in Vienna when his father was playing for Wiener SC.Club career

Brøndby
Laudrup began his senior career with Brøndby in Denmark. At Brøndby, he competed with later Danish internationals Claus Nielsen and Bent Christensen for a place in the starting line-up, and formed a great partnership with Nielsen. He won the 1987 and 1988 Danish First Division with the club. Halfway through the 1989 season, <mask>'s contract with Brøndby expired, and he agreed to join German club Bayer Uerdingen. The transfer fee was thought to be around DKK 8 million, the partition of which Brøndby and <mask>'s father and agent <mask> disagreed about. The Danish Football Union ruled in favor of Brøndby's claims of around DKK 3.9 million, but the Laudrups paid around DKK 3.3 million, and insisted on not paying the remainder. The case was eventually settled in March 1990.Uerdingen
Laudrup joined Uerdingen in order to play in a club with relative little pressure, and also looked to lean on fellow Dane Jan Bartram, who was already at the club. He scored 6 goals in 34 matches during the 1989–90 Bundesliga season, and impressed so much for both club and country that he was named Danish Player of the Year. Laudrup's performances in the Bundesliga were widely praised. At kickers biannual ranking of Bundesliga players, Laudrup was rated the league's second-best forward in the second highest category, international class, after Werder Bremen's New Zealander, Wynton Rufer. German sports magazine Sport Bild hailed Laudrup as the 1989–90 season's best signing, ahead of high-profile names including Uwe Bein, Stefan Kuntz and Thomas Strunz. As he felt the Uerdingen executives would not strengthen the Uerdingen team, Laudrup sought to leave the club in the summer of 1990. Bayern Munich
Laudrup's great performances in the Bundesliga and for Denmark attracted Bayern Munich for his signature, who purchased him for a DM6 million transfer fee in May 1990, making him the most expensive Bundesliga player at the time.In his first season, Laudrup scored 9 goals in 33 games as the club finished in second place. Laudrup was also part of the Bayern squad that reached the semi-final of the 1990–91 European Cup. Laudrup was highly rated among the experts, but he was also very popular in large parts of the German population. In a vote that gave kicker-readers the opportunity to choose their favourite players at individual places and the most popular player, known as "das Idol '90", was won by Laudrup with four times as many votes as Klaus Allofs in second place. By a vote of Sport Bild that 156,000 readers participated in, he received 24,245 votes and was elected the fourth best performer out of 900 candidates among German legionnaires abroad and all players in the 1. and 2. Bundesliga. Only the popular world champions Andreas Brehme, Lothar Matthäus and Rudi Völler received more votes.Laudrup finished ahead of high-profile stars like Thomas Häßler, Jürgen Klinsmann, Andreas Möller, Thomas Doll, Jürgen Kohler, Karl-Heinz Riedle and Matthias Sammer, and so entirely on Bundesliga players, Laudrup took first place. Laudrup was a consistent performer in his first five matches of the 1991–92 season but suffered a cruciate ligament injury in his right knee in August 1991. Laudrup watched from the stands as the team collapsed in a disastrous season. In December 1991, Laudrup said new Bayern executives Franz Beckenbauer and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge were creating chaos in the team through their public criticism of the younger Bayern players. He returned to the team in February 1992 and played the last 15 matches of the season as Bayern finished in tenth position. Despite the injury-hit season, Laudrup still finished the 1991–92 season being named Danish Player of the Year again for the second time, and finished fifth in the FIFA World Player of the year poll. Fiorentina
Laudrup's reputation began to grow and he fulfilled his lifelong ambition when he moved to Serie A (at the time, arguably the top league in the world) to sign for Fiorentina.Fiorentina started the 1992–93 season brilliantly, playing open, flowing and attacking football in the first part of the season. However, a change of manager in the second half of the season was the beginning of the end for Fiorentina. The team as a whole produced mediocre performances, and despite the presence of such other stars as Stefan Effenberg and Gabriel Batistuta, the club was unexpectedly relegated after more than 50-straight years playing in Serie A. Despite the relegation, Laudrup himself had a fairly solid season, and was loaned to Milan for the 1993–94 season. Loaned to Milan
<mask> was loaned to Milan for the 1993–94 season, which only saw him play a handful of matches throughout the season due to a squad rotation system at the club, and also because of the three foreigner rule at the time. The world class team of Milan at the time had seven foreigners, including Laudrup, Marcel Desailly, Jean-Pierre Papin, Dejan Savićević and Marco van Basten, which meant Laudrup was not always used. It was also manager Fabio Capello's very strict system where he preferred to play more defensive type players rather than the direct play preferred by Laudrup.However, Capello's defensive system proved to work at the end of the season, as Milan won the Scudetto only scoring 36 goals in 34 matches. Laudrup played seven European matches for the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League-winning Milan side. Despite being on contract with Fiorentina until the summer of 1996, Laudrup stated in December 1993 he did not want to return to the club. Rangers
In July 1994, Laudrup was offered an escape route from Italy when he was approached by Walter Smith of Rangers. Rangers at that time were an ambitious club and had money to spend to try to seek European glory. This attracted Laudrup, and he signed for a £2.3 million transfer fee. He made an immediate impact at Rangers.On the opening league fixture of the season against Motherwell in August 1994, it was from his precise cross that Mark Hateley headed the opening goal. In the second half with only a few minutes remaining, he provided another assist with a long run from the half-way line before passing to Duncan Ferguson, who then scored Rangers' second goal to clinch a 2–1 win. He scored his first goal for the club later that same month, in a Scottish League Cup tie against Falkirk. Although Scottish football was more physical than what he was previously used to, he excelled in the free role given to him by manager Walter Smith. Laudrup turned down an offer from Barcelona five months after signing for Rangers. He finished the season with 10 goals in 33 League games, in addition to a number of assists, as Rangers won their seventh consecutive Championship. As recognition of his fine performances, Laudrup won both the Scottish Football Writers and Scottish PFA player of the year awards.His performances for Rangers and Denmark also resuted in his winning his third Danish Player of the Year award. Laudrup missed a run of nine League games in the early part of season 1995–96 due to an injury sustained in international duty. He returned against Celtic in November 1995 and scored Rangers' first goal in a 3–3 draw at Ibrox. He was also now playing alongside Paul Gascoigne, and the pair were instrumental in Rangers winning their eighth league championship. Laudrup also made a big impact in the latter stages of the Scottish Cup that season. He scored the winning goal in the semi-final against Celtic, playing a one-two with Gordon Durie, before taking control of the ball on his chest and chipping it over the Celtic keeper. In the final against Hearts, Rangers won 5–1.Durie scored a hat-trick, the first-ever Rangers player to do so in the final, but it was <mask> who won the Man of the Match award, having provided assists for all three of Durie's goals, and scoring the other two himself. The game has since become known as the Laudrup Final. His third season at Rangers, 1996–97, saw another cup final goal, this time in a 4–3 win over Hearts in the 1996 Scottish League Cup Final. The season's most notable concern was Rangers bid to equal Celtic's record of nine consecutive league titles. With Rangers hampered by a series of niggling injuries to their main strikers, a greater burden for goalscoring was placed on Laudrup. He responded by scoring 16 goals in 33 league games, including the only goal against Celtic in a win in November 1996, and a headed goal in a 1–0 win in May 1997 away at Dundee United which clinched the league title and the club's bid for nine-in-a-row. His performances saw him win the Scottish Football Writers' award once again.His great performances for Rangers and Denmark also made him win his fourth Danish player of the year. Laudrup was linked with a £5 million move to Ajax Amsterdam in the summer of 1997, but was persuaded to stay with Rangers for one more season to help their bid for a tenth successive league title. However, despite a bright start, the season ended up an anti-climax, with Laudrup failing to match the form of previous seasons. Rangers finished runners-up in the league behind Celtic, and ended the season trophy-less after losing to Hearts in the 1998 Scottish Cup Final. Laudrup left the club shortly afterwards. He later described his time at Rangers as "the four best years of my career". <mask> joined Chelsea in the summer of 1998.There was a possibility of Laudrup becoming a Manchester Utd player when Alex Ferguson phoned <mask> about coming to Old Trafford. Laudrup said: "I had to tell him that he called a day late, because I had just signed with Chelsea". However he very quickly had reservations, and tried to get out of his contract before he even kicked a ball for Chelsea, informing them about this prior to the 1998 World Cup. Chelsea were not accommodating and told Laudrup they would go to court or involve FIFA and UEFA if the contract was not honoured. Laudrup relented and become a Chelsea player, but was very open that he was unhappy in London and with the squad rotation system policy. "I would have thought twice about signing for Chelsea if I had known," he said. He added, "When I first discussed terms with Chelsea in February,

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 nobody told me about this system if I'd known about it I would have brought it up" and concluded "I don't like the system of rotation."He made his debut as Chelsea won the 1998 UEFA Super Cup. He did not play many matches due to a combination of injury, the squad rotation system that Chelsea had where no player was guaranteed to be in the starting line up, and also because of his fall-out with the club. Laudrup provided an assist in the 4–3 victory against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park after coming off the substitutes' bench to equalize 3–3. Laudrup provided another assist in the 2–0 victory against Middlesbrough at Stamford Bridge. <mask>'s only Chelsea goal came in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup to give Chelsea a valuable 1–0 away win against Copenhagen to send Chelsea through to the quarter-finals. It was also his last match for the London club. Manager Gianluca Vialli had no hesitation about playing Laudrup against Copenhagen despite his unhappiness at the club, stating "I've always had faith in <mask>.I knew before the game he was having a quite difficult time with all that was going on but he's been outstanding in training and previous matches and he responded very well. He's been professional and the goal was the right reward for him." After the tie, he ironically moved on to Copenhagen who had negotiated a deal during the time of their two games against Chelsea. Although <mask>'s time at Chelsea was brief, his performances were praised, and he kept a professional attituted when called into action despite being personally unhappy in London. Former Chelsea teammate Graham Le Saux later named Laudrup in his greatest ever XI. Copenhagen
Laudrup moved back to Denmark in the spring of 1999 for a brief spell with Copenhagen. Playing for the main rivals of former club Brøndby, he was unceremoniously booed by the home fans when he revisited Brøndby Stadium in March 1999, and was also harassed by fans from other Danish clubs.Ajax
Family problems resulted in Laudrup joining Ajax. Laudrup's registration had reverted to Chelsea after leaving Copenhagen, therefore Ajax and Chelsea had to negotiate a transfer fee. He said, "I had offers from 15 clubs and I have the feeling that Ajax is the right club for me. I didn't enjoy playing with FC Copenhagen. I had the same problems there that I had with Chelsea; I could not show more than 70% of my real self." Ajax head coach Jan Wouters, who spent a season with Laudrup at Bayern Munich, added, "I like <mask> a lot because he can adapt and play several positions." After one individually successful season from 1999 to 2000, scoring 15 goals in 38 matches, Laudrup could not play another season due to injuries.He was forced to retire from top-level football at age 31 after one of the most successful careers in Danish football. International career
<mask> made his international debut for the Denmark under-17 team in July 1984, and played six matches for the team until October that year. From October 1985 to August 1987, he played 12 matches and scored 6 goals for the under-19 team. He also represented the under-21s in five games from June 1987 to November 1988. He was called up for the senior Denmark national team by coach Sepp Piontek in April 1987 as a replacement for his brother Michael, but did not receive his debut. Senior debut
<mask> was included in the senior Danish "Olympic national team" of under-21 coach Richard Møller Nielsen, and took part in three qualification matches for the 1988 Summer Olympics. He made his debut on 18 November 1987, at age 18, in a 1–0 defeat to West Germany, with Bjarne Goldbæk also debuting in that match.<mask> scored his first national team goal in his third game, a 4–0 win against Greece on 20 April 1988. He was then included as a part of coach Piontek's selection ahead of the UEFA Euro 1988. He came on as a substitute in a friendly match against Austria in April 1988, but broke his collarbone just before the final Euro 1988 squad was named. Laudrup was recalled to the senior national team in February 1989, and became a mainstay in the team under new national team coach Richard Møller Nielsen. He scored three goals in four matches as Denmark narrowly missed qualification for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. During the dispute with Brøndby over his transfer fee, it was discussed whether the Danish Football Union should ban <mask> from the national team. Following three matches in the qualification campaign for the Euro 1992, Laudrup opted to quit the national team in November 1990 alongside his brother Michael and Jan Bartram, as he lacked respect for coach Nielsen.European champion at Euro 1992
<mask> returned to the national team under coach Nielsen in April 1992. In 1992, Laudrup travelled with the Danish national team to Euro 1992 in Sweden, and in a strictly defensive strategy, Laudrup was one of the few attacking players. Though he did not score a single goal in the competition, his skill and speed was an important part of the Danish team that went on to win the tournament, and Laudrup was voted a shared fifth in the 1992 FIFA World Player of the Year poll, with fellow Dane Peter Schmeichel, though he had the edge over Schmeichel in the domestic polls, where Laudrup won his second Danish Player of the Year award in 1992. Laudrup scored 2 goals in 12 matches as Denmark were edged out of participation at the 1994 World Cup by Spain and the Republic of Ireland. During the World Cup qualification, <mask> had re-entered the team. Confederations Cup 95 success
Laudrup was a vital part of the Danish team that won the Confederations Cup in 1995. He scored a remarkable individual goal in the 2–0 win over Saudi Arabia which saw him beat three defenders before slotting it into the net from a wide angle.The goal is rated by FIFA as one of the greatest goals ever scored in the history of the competition. Denmark defeated Argentina in the final 2–0, with Laudrup providing an excellent dribble down the wing to assist in the second goal. Laudrup won the Golden Ball award naming him the best player of the tournament. Euro 1996 participation
Laudrup helped Denmark qualify for Euro 1996, though the tournament was a disappointment for the defending champions. Laudrup was a highlight for the Danes scoring three goals in as many matches, including two against Turkey, but the team was eliminated in the preliminary group stage. World Cup 98 participation
With four goals in seven matches, Laudrup was an important part of the Danish team that qualified for the 1998 World Cup, the only World Cup of his career. He shone at the tournament, scoring two goals and gathering three assists.He saw Denmark through to the quarter-finals with a goal in the 4–1 surprise thrashing of Nigeria in the first knock-out round. The quarter-final was his last match for Denmark, where they were defeated 3–2 by eventual runners-up Brazil, despite Laudrup setting-up the first goal to make it 1–0, and scoring to the top near corner of the goal to level the match at 2–2. Until the Brazil match, when Laudrup had scored for Denmark, they had never lost. The quarter-final was the best ever Danish result at a World Cup, and Laudrup later ranked the 1998 Denmark team higher than the Euro 1992-winning side. He was named as one of the 16 players selected by FIFA as the "All Star Team" of the World Cup, alongside his brother Michael. After the tournament, <mask> decided to end his national team career, having played in 82 matches, scoring 21 goals over the course of 11 years. Player profile
Style of play
<mask> was an elegant, technical and creative player who was gifted with incredible pace and ball control.He used this talent, offensive capabilities and acceleration to dribble at speed and beat players with relative ease to create openings for teammates. Although he was a powerful and accurate striker of the ball, who was capable of finishing well and scoring with either foot as well as with his head, Laudrup was also known to be a very unselfish player with excellent vision who would often take more pleasure in setting-up teammates rather than going for goal himself. Regarding Laudrup's unselfishness, John Greig commented: "Apart from applying the ammunition, Laudrup was also capable of scoring his share of goals, but I genuinely believe that he was embarrassed about scoring. He seemed to derive much more pleasure from making goals". A versatile player, Laudrup was capable of playing in several attacking and midfield positions; his preferred position was in a free role, as a winger on either flank, or in the centre, as an attacking midfielder behind the forwards, with licence to roam. He was also deployed as a midfielder, as a deep-lying forward, or even as a striker on occasion throughout his career. Despite his skill and ability, his consistency and mentality was occasionally brought into question throughout his career.Reception
Laudrup has been praised by several players, managers, pundits, and footballing figures for his footballing ability, including Charlie Nicholas, Roland Wohlfarth, Charlie Nicholas, Ally McCoist, and Andy Goram. Franz Beckenbauer described Laudrup as "a world class player," a view shared by Andreas Brehme, who described him as a "player of the highest quality class." Paul Gascoigne instead dubbed him an "amazing player." <mask>'s older brother, Michael, likened <mask>'s playing style to his own, and even believed his younger brother to be superior to himself. His former manager Horst Wohlers named him as the best player he had ever coached, and as the top footballer in the Bundesliga during their time together at Bayer Uerdingen. In December 2013, Graeme Le Saux named Luís Figo and <mask>up as his toughest opponents ever. Walter Smith's view of Laudrup was more critical however, lauding his ability but also lamenting his mentality, which he believed limited him as a player, commenting: "<mask>up is as good a player as I have ever worked with, but he frustrated me.He had the capability of being up there with the greatest players of all time. There was just that little bit in him mentally that stopped him from being right at the very top. Make no mistake, he was a fantastic player for us, but he could have elevated himself into a position where he was one of the best in the world." Career after football
<mask> now works as a pundit and co-commentator for Discovery Networks Denmark, covering the Premier League and Denmark national team. He formerly covered the UEFA Champions League in the same role for Danish TV3+. He is also involved with the so-called "Laudrup & Høgh ProCamp", a youth football camp, co–coached with former national team goalkeeper Lars Høgh. In his spare time, he played for Lyngby BK's Old Boys side alongside <mask>.Personal life
<mask> is married to Mette and has a son, Nicolai, and a daughter, Rasmine. On 7 September 2010, he announced that he had lymphoma and was undergoing treatment. Three months after the start of the treatment, he was told there were no signs of the disease. players
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<mask>, also known as Merina Lujan (March 20, 1906 – December 11, 1993), was an American painter, muralist, performer, and singer. In 2021, she was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. Early years
<mask> was born on March 20, 1906, in Castle Gate, Utah. Her father, Joseph Cruz Lujan was from Taos and her mother Merea Margherete Luenberger, was predominantly Swiss. <mask>, which means "blue flower", is a Tiwa name given to her by her Taos grandmother soon after birth. In the year that <mask> was born, US President Theodore Roosevelt seized most of Taos Pueblo lands including Blue Lake, which played a vital role in Native American sacred beliefs. Chalee's early life was fairly chaotic.Early in <mask>'s life the Lujan family broke up and moved away from Utah. <mask> was placed in the care of her father's much older half-brother, Santiago Espinoza, who lived at Taos pueblo. Although she was not living with her sisters, they remained close as they were living near each other on the pueblo. After the first summer in Taos, <mask>'s father sent the children to the Santa Fe Indian School. As a young teenager, Chalee was on the move again to return to Salt Lake City, Utah. On the journey back to Utah, she realized that she could not remember what her mother looked like. When they arrived at the station their mother never arrived to get them.After seeking out the help of a family friend they finally found their mother's home but were met with an unwelcome greeting. <mask> recalls their mother turning them away and calling them "little black devils". Despite the cold welcome, Chalee would live at her mother's house where she got her first job to contribute to the household. At age 16, Chalee could no longer tolerate the authoritarian and oppressive environment of her mother's house and ran away. Adult years
On July 20, 1922, the artist married Otis Fred Hopkins, a European-American craftsman of wood and metal. As she was starting her married life, international interest was growing for Native American art, which was defined more as the subject of Native Americans and not made by Native Americans. While Native American art shows were traveling around the county, Chalee gave birth to her first son at 18 years old; Jack Cruz (also named Kun Funa or Black Buffalo).Less than two years later, her daughter Betty (named <mask>na or Red Flower) was born. With her new family, <mask> moved back to Taos but did not participate in the community. She was further separated because of her marriage to an Anglo outsider. However, with Otis' woodworking and metal skills, he was allowed to become part of the community, even more so than <mask>. Although <mask> was reluctant to fully participate in the pueblo, her two children grew up participating in the community, as she and her siblings had. Only after a year of living back in Taos, that the Hopkins family moved back to Salt Lake City. This pattern of "shifting from one residence to another continued."During the Great Depression, Native American received increasing national attention. <mask> was not yet part of the movement, but instead she made public appearances in LDS churches on Native American life. "These thematically linked her to her Native American culture" and inadvertently portrayed her as a representative for her people. This commitment of public speaking to educate a “white” America about Indian life would continue well into <mask>'s later years. Art career
<mask> had not considered a career in art until “[a]n unexpected visit in Utah to a fortune teller and a subsequent recurring dream-inspired one of the most dramatic turning points in <mask>'s life." The fortune-teller told her that she would break away from Utah and return to Taos. She told <mask> that she would be somebody.This message started Chalee's dreams of returning to Taos. Shortly after the meeting with the fortune teller, Chalee and her family moved back to New Mexico in the mid-1930s. She went back to the school she had attended over 20 years ago to open a locker she had dreamed about frequently. When she finally arrived at the school and opened the locker she discovered it was empty. However, she realized that this was her chance to be an artist. Not long afterward, she studied painting at the Santa Fe Indian School with Dorothy Dunn. Chalee started with some difficulty as she was much older than most of the students and the only woman for some time.However, her insecurities about her artwork were put to ease by Dorothy Dunn's supportive encouragement and patience. Chalee seemed to enjoy the school and finally settled into her new role as an artist: "I'd always been kind of funny—I never did anything right. I'd try different things like dancing and couldn't make it. But when I got into the art, I just stuck to it until I finally developed myself, then it just kind of opened the gates and I went on." In <mask>'s biography by Margaret Cesa, her progress and involvement at "the Studio could be compared to jumping into a raging river, frightened at first and then later enjoying the speed and power of the rapids so much that she never leaves the water." At the school, Chalee was exposed to art techniques and art history that strengthened her pride in the work of Native American artists. Responding to a lecture given about modern American art, <mask> commented "Some of our Indian artists paint in a style that the white man says can not be done, but still the Indian gets a perfectly balanced picture and the white artist generally puts a lot of unnecessary lines in a picture.We strive to tell a story in our paintings with as few lines as possible and leave out all unnecessary details. It is all done from memory." <mask> was beginning to form a very clear direction and model for her own artwork. After finishing her first year, <mask> began to work at the Laboratory of Anthropology as a paid copyist for Kenneth Chapman to document designs from the Laboratory's vast collection of Native American pottery. "These tasks served to increase <mask>'s appreciation of Native American arts and heighten her pride in her Pueblo heritage." During this time <mask> was also invited to show her work at an exhibit at Stanford and also contribute to the magazine School Arts. This would be the beginning of a very long and celebrated art career.Reception and influences
During the 1930s, when Chalee was becoming a household name, there was a "dense thicket of misinformation and sensationalism that circulated" about this new and upcoming artist. She was called <mask>lee or Princess Blue Flower, even though there were no Indian Princesses in the pueblos. A late bloomer onto the emerging Native American art scene of the 1930s, she quickly became one of the most successful and sought after artists of her time. This was no small feat, considering she was a woman and much older than most of her peers at the Santa Fe Indian School, where she studied under Dorothy Dunn. During the Works Progress Administration, she worked for the Indian Division of the Public Works of Art Project, which was funded in 1934. Chalee produced several art works that were distributed around the country (locations unknown.) "Her works are included in numerous museum collections, including the Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, OK), the Heard Museum (Phoenix, AZ), and the Millicent Rogers Museum (Taos, NM).Several of her murals are permanently displayed at the Albuquerque Airport." Her mural work is also on the entrance walls of Maisel's Trading Post on Central Avenue in Albuquerque, generated with several Native and non-native painters in 1939. Known for her mystical horses and enchanted forests, she also painted scenes from her participation in the Native American Church at Taos. Her paintings can be described as ephemeral. "<mask> transformed a traditional style of painting to create magical, idyllic images of wide-eyed animals, ceremonial figures, and woodland settings." In her mythical horse paintings, <mask> paints a dreamlike and whimsical horse. Although space is rendered in a clearly two-dimensional style, the horses have such energy and movement."Her treatment of the horse is mythically stylized with elongated legs and long swirling manes and tails. These horses evoke a Taos story of a stallion that watches over the Pueblo at night." In addition to mystical horses, <mask>'s forest compositions often teemed with frolicking deer as well. It has been proposed that <mask>'s work might well have served as the direct inspiration for the 1942 American animated drama film by Walt Disney, Bambi. <mask> has in fact been called a "Bambi painter." <mask>'s magical forest fantasies were exhibited at Stanford University in 1936. It is notable that the sketches for Bambi did not commence until 1937 prior to the film's 1941 release.Rhythm and movement of ceremonial dance had a strong influence on Chalee and her art; "the rhythm the Indian has, I just go out of this world with it, and the drumbeat, your heart is beating with them, with the rhythm of their bodies". When asked if her life at Taos had an identifiable effect on her art, Chalee replied: "[t]hat I couldn't answer, that I don't know, I really don't know. Maybe an outsider could see it, but..." Whether or not Chalee was aware of her influence from her pueblo community, she was clearly affected by the Taos religion. "Ceremonial life, 'based on a belief in the oneness of all living things', provided her with an opportunity to observe 'the delicate balance of the relationship between man and nature.'" It is clear in all of her work that Chalee felt a strong and deep connection with the world around her and was in touch, not with a specific horse or creature, but rather the spirit of the greater being is represented. "Museums and galleries sought her exotic and captivating works and she was frequently requested to make personal appearances. Chalee attributed her success as an artist to the encouragement of Mabel Dodge Lujan and the instruction of her admired teacher Dorothy Dunn, to whom she paid tribute throughout her life."While <mask> accredited others for the success of her work, she was also very much a personality and had a wonderful energy that people sought after. In an article published in  Southwest Art magazine, Sally Euclaire describes <mask> as a dynamic woman with an image. "Standing tall at well under 5 feet, she sported full bangs and a waist-length braid, body-hugging Capri pants, high-tech sneakers, and New Age crystal jewelry. She was clearly a woman with an image." Family and death
<mask> died on December 11, 1993, in Santa Fe. She was the aunt of a painter, <mask> also known as Lori Tanner, who died in 1966. Notes

References
 Broder, Patricia Janis.Earth songs, moon dreams: paintings by American Indian women artists. St Martin's Press. .

 Lester, Patrick D. The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters. Tulsa, OK: SIRS Publications, 1995. ISBM 0-8061-9936-9. 1906 births
1993 deaths
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<mask> (born 1947) is an American environmentalist and author, he is a co-founder of Earth First! and a prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement. Biography
<mask>, was born in October 18, 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His father was an United States Air Force sergeant. <mask> attended San Antonio Junior College and University of New Mexico, where he majored in History. In his early life he was active in conservative politics, campaigning for Barry Goldwater and forming the Young Americans for Freedom conservative youth chapter on his junior college campus. In 1968, <mask> joined the Marine Corps' Marine Officer Candidates School in Quantico, Virginia and received an undesirable discharge after 61 days.After his experience with the Marine Corps, he worked as a teacher at a Zuni Indian reservation in New Mexico and would shoe horses. Activism and environmentalist work

The Wilderness Society

Between 1973 and 1980, he worked for The Wilderness Society as Southwest Regional Representative in New Mexico and the Director of Wilderness Affairs in Washington, DC. By the late 1970s, <mask> had become increasingly disillusioned by what he viewed as the “professionalization” of the environmental movement. After the United States Forest Service's Roadless Area Review and Evaluation II resulted in the opening of thirty-six million acres (146,000 km²) of land for logging in 1979, <mask> left Washington and abandoned his job as an environmental lobbyist. Earth First! In April 1980, <mask> and friends Howie Wolke, Ron Kezar, Bart Koehler and Mike Roselle took a week-long hiking trip in the Pinacate Desert. It was during this trip that <mask> is believed to have coined the phrase “Earth First!” The movement that subsequently bore that name was inspired, in some part, by the writings of Edward Abbey, author of the novel The Monkeywrench Gang.In contrast with the cautious lobbying efforts of the established environmental organizations, “monkeywrenching” – industrial sabotage traditionally associated with labor struggles – would become the chief tactic of the Earth First! movement in the 1980s. The Earth First! Journal, which <mask> edited from 1982 to 1988, featured lively debates on the ethics and effectiveness of this controversial tactic. In 1990, <mask> was one of five people arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation following operation THERMCON, in which FBI agents infiltrated an Arizona Earth First! group, encouraging them to sabotage a powerline feeding a water pumping station. While <mask> had no direct role in the attempted sabotage, he was arrested on a charge of conspiracy.He was permitted to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for handing two copies of Ecodefense to an FBI informant, and received a suspended sentence. After less than a decade, <mask> left Earth First!, disillusioned by the changing character of the organization. According to <mask>, the incorporation of Marxists and Anarchists into Earth First! changed the movement, and not for the better. Many Earth First! members attribute <mask>'s departure from the organization as having to do with his alleged sexism and racism. <mask> went on to form the Rewilding Institute.In 1990, <mask> left EarthFirst! to pursue other work. Other

From 1976 to 1980, he was a board member for the New Mexico chapter of The Nature Conservancy. <mask> co-founded the Wildlands Network in 1991, which aims to establish a network of protected wilderness areas across North America. From 1995 to 1997, he served on the Sierra Club’s board of directors, but departed after the organization rejected his proposed policy on restrictive immigration. In 1997, <mask> co-founded the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. In 2003, <mask> and the board of directors of the Wildlands Project founded a new think tank, the Rewilding Institute, dedicated to "the development and promotion of ideas and strategies to advance continental-scale conservation in North America and to combat the extinction crisis."Writing
In 1985, <mask> published the first edition of the book Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, sharing the editing credits with one “Bill Haywood”. Ecodefense collected articles published in Earth First! Journal’s “Dear Nedd Ludd” column, which provided advice to would-be monkeywrenchers on sabotage techniques. <mask> is the author of The Lobo Outback Funeral Home, a novel, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, a collection of essays, and Rewilding North America: A Vision for Conservation in the 21st Century. He also co-authored The Big Outside with Howie Wolke. Most recently, he authored Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, which argues that human overpopulation is the primary cause of biodiversity loss and other environmental problems. Controversy
In an 1986 interview, <mask> said the United States should not be providing aid for the Ethiopia famine and hunger crisis, but rather, “let nature seek its own balance.<mask> had an increasing pro-border, anti-immigrant, Nativism voice, and initially it was coming from some of his writing with EarthFirst! Foreman and Edward Abbey both argued against immigration because it put “more pressure on the resources”. As time went on, the idea of "population control" became part of the issue and was a point of debate within the environmental movement, eventually led <mask> to be forced out of EarthFirst! He has been compared to a visionary by some and as a threat to the movement by others. Some of the science used for decision making within the Wildlands Network has been questioned, and termed, "lofty scientific ideals" since it could take 100 years to realize an outcome. Bibliography

Contributions by <mask>

References

External links

 The Rewilding Institute
 Earth First! The Wildlands Project
 <mask>: A Dialogue with Derrick Jensen

1947 births
Living people
American environmentalists
American non-fiction environmental writers
Sierra Club directors
University of New Mexico alumni

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<mask> (born in 1954) is an English writer of children's books and poetry. Her best known books include Gilbert the Greatillustrated by Charles Fuge, and Neon Leon illustrated by Britta Teckentrup. <mask> has published more than 80 books, including the Dr. Kittycat series for Oxford University Press, and children's reading scheme books used in schools. CBeebies Bedtime Stories have featured two of <mask>'s books, Stuck in the Mud (read by Dolly Parton) and Knight Time (read by Jake Wood). Stuck in the Mud is also featured with a US Scholastic Book Club edition which includes a CD audio edition. This audio edition is produced by Beatstreet Productions, NYC, directed by Cheryl Smith, read by Cassandra Morris and features music composed by Michael Abbott. <mask> is also a team writer on three different popular series for young readers.Dinosaur Cove (series created by Working Partners Ltd. and published by Oxford University Press), Puddle the Naughtiest Puppy (series created by Working Partners Ltd. and published by Ladybird Books Ltd.) and Pet Hotel (created by Random House Children's Books and published by Red Fox.) Early life
<mask> was born 17 December 1954 and brought up in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. Her parents were Jim and June Andrew. She was a pupil at Hawthorn Road County Primary School in Kettering. In 1972 <mask> completed her secondary study at the Kettering High School for Girls. From 1972 to 1975 <mask> studied at the University of Birmingham where she earned a combined Bachelor of Arts with honours in archaeology and history. In 1981 she completed a PhD in archaeology from University College London.Personal life
On 5 November 1977 <mask> married <mask>. Martin worked as a chemical engineer. His work took them to Mexico, Brazil, the United States, Wales and the Netherlands. Together they raised two sons, <mask> (born 15 October 1983 in Wales) and <mask> (born 18 October 1985 in Wales). Both sons completed the International Baccalaureate Diploma at the Antwerp International School in Belgium and university degrees in the UK. During her doctoral studies <mask> lectured at University College London (1978–79). Thereafter she lectured at University College Cardiff in Wales part-time (1981–83), and taught history at Bryn Hafren School in Barry, Wales (1979–83).Afterwards, <mask> moved with her family to Koewacht, Netherlands. She began working part-time as a librarian at the Antwerp International School. It was during this time she started her career as a children's author. <mask>'s husband, Martin, died of a heart attack in Antwerp, Belgium on 20 December 2001. In June 2005, <mask> moved from the Netherlands back to Kent, England where she now lives. Aside from writing children's books, <mask> spends a significant amount of time inspiring children to read and write. She frequently visits schools throughout the UK and Europe.<mask> has also supported various charitable organisations including Ellenor Lions Children's Hospice, Institute of Cancer Research (The Clapham Grand), Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and READ (promotes reading in Africa). Awards
 Sheffield Children's Book Award – Picture Book Category (Gilbert the Great) 2006, Highly Commended
 Norfolk Library and Information Service Children's Book Award – Younger Category (Gilbert the Great) 2006, Bronze Star Winner
 Nottingham Children's Book Award for 3-5's (Stuck in the Mud) 2008

Works
Plodney Creeper, Supersloth (2001, )
Sherman Swaps Shells (2001, )
Only Tadpoles Have Tails (2002, )
Smoky Dragons (2002, )
Tusk Trouble (2003, )
Dino Dog (2004, )
Gilbert the Great (2005, )
The Amazing Adventures of Batbird (2005, )
Prince Albert's Birthday (2005, )
I'm Not Wearing That! (2005, )
Dippy's Sleepover (2006, )
Chewy Hughie (2006, )
No Nits! (2006, )
Squeaky Clean (2006, )
Mole and the New Hole (2006, )
Muck it Up! (2006, )
Trumpet: the Little Elephant with a Big Temper (2006, )
Scratching’s Catching! [USA version of No Nits!] (2007, )
G.E.M.(2007, )
Gilbert in Deep (2007, )
The Best of Both Nests (2007, )
Stuck in the Mud (2008, )
Runny Honey (2008, )
Knight Time (2008, )
Eye, Eye Captain! (2008, )
Gilbert the Hero (2010, )
Creaky Castle (illustrated by Christyan Fox) Simon & Schuster 2011
Dance Together Dinosaurs (illustrated by Lee Childish) Random House 2012
How to Tuck In Your Sleepy Lion (illustrated by Georgie Birkett) Random House 2015
How to Feed Your Cheeky Monkey (illustrated by Georgie Birkett) Random House 2015
How to Brush Your Teeth With Snappy Croc (illustrated by Georgie Birkett) Random House 2015
How to Bath Your Little Dinosaur (illustrated by Georgie Birkett) Random House 2015
Old Macdonald's Things That Go (illustrated by Migy Blanco) Nosy Crow 2015
Who Woke the Baby? (illustrated by Charles Fuge) Nosy Crow 2015
I Saw Anaconda (illustrated by <mask>) Nosy Crow 2016
Neon Leon (illustrated by Britta Teckentrup) Nosy Crow 2017
Firefly Home (illustrated by Britta Teckentrup) Nosy Crow 2018
Leap Frog (illustrated by Britta Teckentrup) Nosy Crow 2019
Tiptoe Tiger (illustrated by Britta Teckentrup) Nosy Crow 2021

The Dr. KittyCat books, Oxford University Press:
Dr KittyCat is Ready to Rescue: Posy the Puppy 2015
Dr KittyCat is Ready to Rescue: Daisy the Kitten 2015
Dr KittyCat is Ready to Rescue: Clover the Bunny 2015
Dr KittyCat is Ready to Rescue: Willow the Duckling 2015
Dr KittyCat is Ready to Rescue: Nutmeg the Guinea Pig 2016
Dr KittyCat is Ready to Rescue: Pumpkin the Hamster 2017
Dr KittyCat is ready to rescue: Peanut the Mouse 2018
Dr KittyCat is Ready to Rescue: Ginger the Kitten 2018
Dr KittyCat is ready to rescue: Logan the Puppy 2018
Dr KittyCat is ready to rescue: Bramble the Hedgehog 2019Al's Awesome Science, Five Quills:
Al's Awesome Science: No.1: Egg-Speriments! (illustrated by James Brown) 2017
AL's Awesome Science: Splash Down! (illustrated by James Brown) 2018
Al's Awesome Science: Blast-Off! (illustrated by James Brown) 2018
Al's Awesome Science: Busy Bodies!

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<mask> (March 14, 1946June 2, 2020) was an American professional basketball player, coach and executive. He spent his entire National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets. Unseld played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals and was selected with the second overall pick by the Bullets in the 1968 NBA draft. He was named the NBA Most Valuable Player and NBA Rookie of the Year during his rookie season and joined Wilt Chamberlain as the only two players in NBA history to accomplish the feat. Unseld won an NBA championship with the Bullets in 1978. After retiring from playing in 1981, he worked with the Bullets/Wizards as a vice president, head coach, and general manager. Unseld was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988 and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.His son, <mask> Jr., is a coach in the NBA who is currently the head coach of the Wizards. Early life and high school career
Unseld was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Charles and Cornelia Unseld as one of nine children. His father was a prizefighter, construction worker, oilman, and baseball player for the Indianapolis Clowns. Unseld starred for the Seneca High School team that won Kentucky state championships in 1963 and 1964. He was recruited by over 100 colleges, and became the first African-American athlete to be offered an athletic scholarship to the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Integration leaders in Louisville tried to persuade Unseld to attend the University of Kentucky and stated that "it would be good for Kentucky and the Southeastern Conference," but Unseld opted to stay in town and attend the University of Louisville, which was racially integrated. College career

Unseld played center for the school's freshman team and averaged 35.8 points and 23.6 rebounds over 14 games.He lettered for Louisville as a sophomore (1965–66), junior (1966–67), and senior (1967–68), scored 1,686 points (20.6 average) and grabbed 1,551 rebounds (18.9 average) over 82 games. He led the Missouri Valley Conference in rebounding all three years. Unseld earned NCAA All-American honors in 1967 and 1968 and led Louisville to a 60–22 record during his collegiate career, making trips to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in 1966 and the NCAA Tournament in 1967 and 1968. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Professional career

Unseld was selected as the second overall pick by the Baltimore Bullets in the 1968 NBA draft. He was also selected by his hometown Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in the 1968 ABA draft. Unseld was offered contracts by both teams but opted to sign with the Bullets of the more successful NBA despite them allegedly offering less money.After signing Unseld, Bullets owner Earl Foreman proclaimed that "this contract represents the most attractive and rewarding contract that has or will be signed by any player in the NBA this year." In his first regular season game, Unseld recorded eight points and 22 rebounds in a 124–116 Baltimore win over the Detroit Pistons. On October 19, Unseld recorded his first double-double of his career after recording 13 points and 20 rebounds in a 124–121 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. On November 22, Unseld recorded 20 points and a career-high 29 rebounds in a 121–110 loss to the 76ers. As a rookie, Unseld helped lead the Bullets (which had finished in last place in the Eastern division the previous year) to a  record and a division title. Unseld averaged 18.2 rebounds per game that year, and joined fellow future Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain to become the second player ever to win the Rookie of the Year Award and the Most Valuable Player Award in the same year. Unseld was also named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team, and also claimed the Sporting News MVP that year.Unseld was one of the best defensive players of his era, and in the , he led the NBA in rebounding. The following season, he led the NBA in field goal percentage with a .561 percentage. Unseld took the Bullets to four NBA Finals in the 1970s, and won the championship in 1978 over the Seattle SuperSonics, in which he was named the Finals MVP. He ended his playing career in March 1981, and his No. 41 jersey was retired by the Bullets shortly thereafter. Player profile
Famed for his rebounding, bone-jarring picks and ability to ignite a fast break with his crisp, accurate outlet passes, Unseld made up for his relative lack of size as a center with brute strength and sheer determination. In 984 NBA games – all with the Bullets – Unseld averaged a double-double in points and rebounds, with averages of 10.8 points and 14.0 rebounds per game.He also averaged 3.9 assists, excellent for a center, in the 36 minutes he played per game. Unseld was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988, and in 1996, he was named as one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of all time. In 2021, he was named on the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Executive and coaching career
After Unseld's retirement in 1981, he moved into a front office position with the Bullets, where he served as vice president for six years before being named head coach in 1988. He resigned following the 1994 season with a 202–345 record (.369). Unseld became the Bullets' general manager in 1996 (they were renamed to the Wizards in 1997) and served in that role for seven years. He guided the team to the playoffs once during his tenure as general manager.Personal life
Unseld's wife, Connie, opened Unselds School in 1979. A coed private school located in southwest Baltimore, it has a daycare program, nursery school and a kindergarten-to-eighth grade curriculum. Connie and daughter Kimberly serve as teachers at the school. Unseld worked as an office manager and head basketball coach. He was the godfather of Cleveland Cavaliers all-star forward, Kevin Love, as Kevin's father Stan Love was a teammate of Unseld's on the Baltimore Bullets. His son, <mask> Jr., is a coach in the NBA who became the head coach of the Wizards in 2021. Unseld died on June 2, 2020, after suffering lengthy health battles.

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<mask> (11 January 1874 – 8 May 1927) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Western Australian Football Association (WAFA). He is considered one of the great champion players of the VFA and VFL and possibly the longest place kick of any code in history. Described as "an ideal footballer", he usually played at centre-half-forward; but his skill and versatility enabled him to be switched to any position on the ground. He has been described as the “first icon of Australian Rules football”. Family
The son of builder/contractor <mask> (1840–1881), and <mask> (1854–1901), née Buckland, <mask> was born at Errol Street, North Melbourne, on 11 January 1874. He married Ida Alma Mary Thomas (?–1950) at Fairfield on 26 April 1899. They had two daughters: <mask> (1902-), and <mask> (1907–?).In 1902-03, following the birth of his first-born daughter, Marjorie, he built a house at 44 Park Crescent in Fairfield. Thurgood died on 8 May 1927 as the result of a car accident. He was buried with Anglican rites in Brighton Cemetery. He is the cousin of former Essendon footballer <mask>, and the great-great uncle of former Hawthorn player <mask>. Education
He was educated at Brighton Grammar School where he was part of the football team and was recruited to Essendon Football Club from there. At 18 years, and after completing secondary school, he was eagerly pursued by several football clubs including St Kilda and Essendon. Thurgood chose Essendon for several reasons.At the time, football was seen as an amateur sport and clubs were prohibited from paying players. However, Essendon had implemented a novel system of “billets” – in which the club provided accommodation and found jobs for talented players. In addition, <mask>’s cousin, <mask> had joined Essendon several years earlier, and he was also connected to some ex-Brighton players who had joined the Essendon Club. Football career
On leaving school, he joined the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). He was ideally suited to Australian Rules football due to his stature; six-foot tall, weighing 12 stone and extremely agile. Although he was a solid all-round player, he excelled at accurate, long goal-kicking. He was the first player to kick more than 50 goals in a single season (1892) and then surpassed his own record by kicking more than 60 goals in each of the two consecutive seasons (1893 and 1894).In one notable instance, he scored a place point from 60 yards out. He played 103 VFA games, 46 VFL games and also played 48 games with Fremantle in Western Australia (1895-1897). He was named Champion of the Colony for two consecutive years (1893 and 1894) and again in 1901. In 1901, was also named Essendon’s Best and Fairest in the first year that award was presented. VFA
Thurgood played for Essendon in the VFA in 1892–94,. At six feet tall (183 cm) and twelve stone (76.2 kg), Thurgood possessed qualities that made him a versatile key position player: he was extraordinarily fast, a superb mark, and very nimble and agile. His greatest asset was his kicking.Usually playing at centre half-forward, he could regularly kick distances up to 65-70 yards and beyond. Thurgood kicked 64 goals in 1893, and 63 in 1894. In the last two games for 1893, he scored 21 goals: nine of Essendon's ten goals against North Melbourne, and twelve of Essendon's fourteen goals against Richmond the following week, all extraordinary feats giving the low scoring of the era. He played 57 VFA games for Essendon and kicked 183 goals. WAFA
In 1895 he left Essendon to seek work in Western Australia, and played for the Fremantle Football Club (not connected to the current club of the same name) in the Western Australian Football Association (WAFA). During his stint there he topped the WAFA goal kicking list on three consecutive occasions between 1895 and 1897, helping the side lift premierships in the first two of those years. VFL
He returned to Victoria in 1898 and sought to resume his career with Essendon in the newly formed Victorian Football League (VFL, later AFL) but the VFL denied him a permit for residential reasons.Forced to sit out of football in 1898, he finally took the field for Essendon in 1899, and headed the club's goalkicking list in 1900 (25) and 1902 (33). While contemporaries noted that Thurgood was slower, heavier and less keen, he produced his finest performance in the 1901 VFL Grand Final against Collingwood when he kicked three of the side's six goals and was a major contributor to Essendon's victory. The same year, he won Essendon's Club Champion award. In 1902, Thurgood received a three match suspension for striking St Kilda footballers Mick English and Alf Trevillian. In two of the matches when he was absent, one of his team-mates took the field under the nom de guerre "Goodthur", which was used in reports of the game. Football historians Michael Maplestone and Stephen Rogers determined that "Goodthur" was most likely Fred Mann, and the official VFL/AFL player statistics reflect this view. In 1902 there were widespread allegations that he had 'laid down' against Collingwood in the Challenge Final, which Essendon lost by the heavy margin for the time of 33 points.In disgust, Thurgood demanded, and was refused, a clearance to the Magpies, whereupon he decided to retire. He was tempted back to Essendon four years later, but after playing eight games he was forced to retire permanently when he sustained a serious ankle injury. Career
He held four records at his retirement: his 1893 season total was a Victorian record until 1915, his 12 goals in a match until 1919, his career total of 272 goals was an Essendon record until broken in Round 8, 1935 by Keith Forbes, his record place kick of 107 yards, 2 ft 1 in (98.48m) with slight wind assistance at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground 22 June 1899 still stands as the longest place kick in history by a footballer of any code. During the 1923 season, in an article discussing the issue of who was a "champion player" — both as outright "champion" and as "champion" in a particular position — the football correspondent for The Argus ("Old Boy"), spoke of his observations of players over the years (at least as early as Carlton's George Coulthard) and, despite the "tremendous difficulty" of such a task, was emphatic that Essendon's <mask> was his best-ever "champion player" (out of twenty outright "champions", and 62 "champions" in a particular position):
"I have never had any doubt myself that A.J<mask> is the best all-round man I ever saw play the game in Victoria. He was a champion goal-kicker, could get the ball for himself, and wherever placed was a champion. In the Essendon premiership and championship teams between 1891 and 1894 he played in every position on the field, and in all was a success.Further than that, he was a match-winner; a man who could do the seemingly impossible and turn a forlorn hope into victory." After football
He was also a solid cricketer, playing three first XI matches for the North Melbourne Cricket Club during the 1890s; he was also an avid golfer. After his retirement from football, <mask> became active in horse racing—for some years as a bookmaker and subsequently as an owner. He ran a number of successful horses, including Amazonia, which won the Bagot Handicap in 1921 and was placed third in the Melbourne Cup that year. In 1996, <mask> was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. He was named in the Essendon Team of the Century, which was selected in their VFL/AFL centenary year of 1997. Nicknamed "The Great", he was inducted into the WA Football Hall of Fame in 2004 as an inaugural inductee.Other interests
He was an all-round sportsman. In addition to his football career, he played cricket for East Fremantle during 1894-7 and later for North Melbourne and had a passion for golf. He owned a stock and station agent business with premises in Flinders Lane In 1912, he registered as a bookmaker and was given space in the elite “Paddock Reserve” at Flemington racetrack. He enjoyed modest success with racehorses; a horse named Choi took out the Cantala Stakes in 1919 and another, Amazonia, was placed 3rd in the 1921 Melbourne Cup. Champions of Essendon
In 2002 an Essendon panel ranked him at 9 in their Champions of Essendon list of the 25 greatest players ever to have played for Essendon. Honours
The Fremantle Football Club and Essendon Football Club created the "Albert Thurgood Challenge" to be played between the two teams. The first ever meeting was known as D-Day.On 11 February 1995 Fremantle won its first official game of AFL, defeating Essendon by 50 points at East Fremantle Oval. Footnotes

See also

 Australian Football Hall of Fame
 Australian rules football positions
 Coleman Medal
 Crichton Medal
 Fremantle Football Club (1882–1899)
 History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1859–1900)
 Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal
 List of Essendon Football Club honours
 List of Essendon Football Club leading goalkickers
 List of Essendon Football Club players
 List of VFL debuts in 1899
 West Australian Football Hall of Fame
 1894 VFA season
 1897 WAFA season
 1900 VFL season
 1901 VFL season
 1901 VFL Grand Final
 1902 VFL Grand Final

References
 <mask>: The Champion of Champions, AFL Record, First Preliminary Final, 2010, pp.38-40. Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. External links

 <mask>, Boyles Football Photos. Australian Dictionary of Biography
 Australian Football Hall of Fame
 <mask> 'The Great' Thurgood (1874–1927) Gravesite at Brighton General Cemetery (Vic)

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Essendon Football Club players
Essendon Football Club Premiership players
Champions of Essendon
Fremantle Football Club (1881–1899) players
Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees
West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees
Crichton Medal winners
People educated at Brighton Grammar School
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
VFL Leading Goalkicker Medal winners
Road incident deaths in Victoria (Australia)
Essendon Football Club (VFA) players
One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players

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<mask>, 2nd Baroness <mask> of Hackney,  (née <mask>; 25 April 1857 – 21 December 1919) was a British hereditary peer, charity worker, amateur archaeologist and ornithologist. Thirty-two of the Tombs of the Nobles at Aswan were uncovered in her excavations and for many years were known as the "Cecil Tombs". She was one of the few English women to have held a peerage in her own right. The black crowned crane, balearica pavonia ceciliae was named in her honour. Early life
<mask>, known as "May" to her family, was born on 25 April 1857 in Didlington Hall near Swaffham in west Norfolk, England to Margaret Susan (née Mitford) and William Amhurst Tyssen-Amhurst (1835–1909) (which was changed to the surname <mask> in 1877). Descending of wealthy Flemish traders, the Tyssen family acquired estates in Hackney and Norfolk, leading to a wide circle of friends and monetary influence. Her father, was a collector of books and antique artefacts, with a strong interest in Egyptian antiquities.He had large collections of books and manuscripts, many on the history of bookbinding and printing, and his collection of artefacts was at one time the third largest in England. May's mother was known for her wood carving skill, with her handiworks adorning Didlington Hall, as well as her needle skills, as an amateur surgeon. Her maternal grandfather, Admiral Robert Mitford, besides serving in the Royal Navy, was a naturalist who had studied engraving techniques and illustrated birds. As did her six younger sisters, May studied at home, learning painting, music and domestic arts, as well as horsemanship. The sisters were also taught the importance of childhood education, caring for the poor and sick and the need to tend to building institutions which fostered the health and welfare of society. From a young age, she was interested in the collections on Egypt, spending hours in the museum which her father had built in one wing of the house. In 1871, her parents took her with them on her first trip to the country, which was just opening up to tourism.They travelled in the private car of Ottoman Khedive, Isma'il Pasha, rather than by rail and stayed in Shepheard's Hotel, making excursions to the pyramids, Saqqara, and Suez. May sketched birds, rode on donkeys and ponies, and, in addition to touring and camping, attended a performance of Aida at the Khedivial Opera House and roamed the gardens and rooms of Inji Hanimefendi's palace. In 1891, Howard Carter and his father Samuel visited Didlington Hall to study the artefacts at the estate's museum. The two were known for their illustrations and drawings and were acquaintances of the family. Lady Margaret, who was impressed by young Howard's talent, assisted in arranging an apprenticeship for him from the Egypt Exploration Fund, as a tracer of drawings and inscriptions. Peerage
In 1892, May's father, who by then had served several terms as member of the House of Commons became the 1st Baron <mask> of Hackney. As he had no male heirs, a special remainder granted that May (now known as Lady William Cecil) would succeed him as the 2nd Baron (i.e.Baroness) to pass the title on to her male heirs. In 1909, when her father died suddenly, Lady William Cecil succeeded him suo jure under the special remainder previously attained, as the 2nd Baron(ess) <mask> of Hackney, but his residual estate had been reduced to £341, as most of his personal collections and estate had been sold to pay off debt, when he was defrauded by his solicitor. Career

Archaeology and Cecil Tombs
Despite that it was unusual for women to participate in archaeology at the time, in 1901, encouraged by Howard Carter, Lady William Cecil began excavations at Qubbet el-Hawa near Aswan. Her family was wintering in the area and while exploring on the west bank of the Nile had discovered what she thought might be an ancient cemetery. Carter, who in 1899 had been appointed by the Antiquities Service as one of two European Chief Inspectors and in charge of excavations in the Nile Valley south from Qus to the Sudanese border, came to see the find the following day. He arranged for permits to excavate and provided an inspector and workers to assist in the dig. She kept a diary of the details of the expedition in which multiple tombs were found, as well as wooden anthropoid coffins of the Saite Era.Though the entire necropolis was infested with termites, Tomb 21 yielded two burial boxes. The male's coffin disintegrated when it was touched, but the female's coffin remained intact and was removed. The exterior was painted in yellow and devoid of any inscription. The mummy was covered with a blue network of beading. A coarse blue glaze was used on the winged scarabs and Amenti gods depicted on the canopic jars. The sole adornment of the mummy was a one inch by half inch opaque green stone. Lady William's diary recorded that the names found in the tomb were Bao-bao, daughter of Pawebas and Shepentanefet and her brother Waher.She also reported remnants of a former burial, which may have been the tomb of Shepentanefret. In all, Lady William Cecil uncovered thirty-two tombs at the site which became known as the "Cecil Tombs", and were later called the Tombs of the Nobles or Qubbet el-Hawa. Her discovery of the tomb of Heqata was described as a small chamber, with two earthenware pots and containing a square coffin upon which were a bow and some arrow tips, as well as three walking sticks. Inside the coffin, on a trellis-shaped frame filled with grids of dirt, lay the mummy of Heqata. The mummy was full of weevils, but was encased in seven layers of finely woven cloth. Though there were no artefacts found with the mummy, the exterior wrapping was painted white about the face with a painted necklace. In many of the tombs, Lady William reported that they appeared to be re-used, and her finds suggest the artefacts came from a diverse range of dynasties.The excavations proved successful and though Carter took "some of the best things", both he and Gaston Maspero were pleased with the endeavour. Author
Returning home, Lady William Cecil published her findings "Report on the Work Done at Aswan" in the Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte in 1903. In December, 1903, Lord and Lady William Cecil attended Princess Henry of Battenburg to return to Egypt, having been members of her household for many years. Her second season was not as productive and her work was overshadowed by a discovery made on Elephantine Island of a papyrus engagement contract. The document, in Aramaic script, contained important descriptions of the fortress and city of Aswan in the era of Artaxerxes I and Darius II and Lady William worked diligently with Howard Carter and others to try to get it published. In 1904, she published Bird Notes from the Nile, which she offered for sale to benefit the parish church of St Mary's Church in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The book inspired the black crowned crane, balearica pavonia ceciliae to be named in her honour.Other charitable works Lady William supported included the Children's Invalid Aid Fund; London's Queen's Hospital for Children, for which she was one of only two women directors; and the ambulance and hospital works of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, for which she also served as a Lady Justice. Lady William and her husband spent the next several years travelling, visiting Australia in 1905. Lady-in-waiting
In 1906, they were in Madrid, where Lady William served as the only English lady-in-waiting attending Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Princess Henry's daughter, when she became Spanish queen. That same year at the request of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Lord and Lady William Cecil went with an English committee to help organise schools for Chinese girls. They returned with Princess Henry and her entourage to Spain the following year, as well. World War I
During World War I, Lady <mask> participated in projects to raise funds for various war works, including an exhibition of her own paintings of Egyptian scenes at the Dudley Galleries and a fundraiser at the Royal School of Needlework. Her son and heir, The Hon.Captain <mask> Cecil was killed at the Battle of the Aisne on 16 September 1914. She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1919 for her charitable works with several governmental offices dealing with sanitation and health. Personal life
On 2 September 1885, May married Colonel Lord William Cecil (1854–1943), son of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter. The couple had four sons:
<mask> Cecil (1886–1914), who was killed at the Battle of the Aisne on 16 September 1914. He is buried at Soupir Communal Cemetery. He married in 1910 Gladys Evelyn Baggallay, with issue. Thomas James Cecil (1887–1955)
John Francis <mask> (1890–1954), who married Cornelia Vanderbilt, daughter of George Washington Vanderbilt II, and had issue, George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil and <mask> Vanderbilt Cecil
Henry Mitford Cecil (1893–1962)

Death and legacy
Barely a month after her own mother died, Lady <mask> died on 20 December 1919 in London.The coffin of Bao-bao was sold upon her death via a sale organised by Sotheby's in June 1921 to Albert M. Todd. In 1932, Todd presented the piece to the Kalamazoo Public Museum. The Sotheby's sale was described as "the most important sale of Egyptian antiquities ever held in England" to that point in time and included 917 lots of Egyptian artefacts and 47 lots of cuneiform tablets and other objects. Lady <mask>'s journal on her first trip to Egypt is part of the records kept in Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina. Her notes and letters have been useful references for other archaeologists in tracking provenance of objects which were part of the family collections and because the tombs she inspected have not fully been subsequently explored. Selected works

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<mask> (born <mask>, November 17, 1898 – September 15, 1981) was an American actress of the 1930s through the 1950s and in television into the mid-1960s. She may be best remembered for appearing as Aunt Milly Forrest in 14 entries in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy film series. Early life
Some sources say she was born in 1898 in Center Point, Texas, while others claim she was born in Galveston, Texas, the daughter of Dr. <mask> (1871–1910) and character actress, Charlotte Walker, later active in silent films and early sound films. She always was cast in character roles. After their parents' divorce, Haden and her elder sister <mask> (born 1897) attended Sacred Heart Academy in Galveston, where they boarded during school terms. Career

Haden first appeared on the stage in the early 1920s. As early as October 1920, she was appearing with Walter Hampden's acting troupe.Her Broadway debut came in Trigger (1927). She made her film debut in 1934 (one year after her mother's retirement) in the Katharine Hepburn vehicle Spitfire. Haden later became a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the late 1930s and had smallish roles in many of the studio's films, most notably in the Andy Hardy series starring Mickey Rooney, cast as the spinsterish Aunt Milly Forrest. Haden made her last film, Andy Hardy Comes Home, in 1958, but was active on television until a 1965 guest spot on Dr. Kildare. She was most notable for her stern, humorless characterisations such as a truant officer in Shirley Temple's Captain January (1936), but she also played the much-loved teacher Miss Pipps, who is unjustly fired in the Our Gang comedy Come Back, Miss Pipps (1941). Other films in which she appeared include Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), and The Bishop's Wife (1947). Her television appearances include episodes of Climax!, Bourbon Street Beat, and Bonanza.She had a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Florence Harvey in the 1959 episode, "The Case of the Romantic Rogue". <mask> played Dora Darling in My Favorite Martian, season 2 episode 28, "Once Upon a Martian's Mother's Day" in 1965. Personal life
<mask> was married to film actor Richard Abbott (born Seamon Vandenberg) from 1921 until their divorce in 1948. She died on September 15, 1981 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, at age 82. Selected filmography

 The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) as Winnie Belle
 Music in the Air (1934) as Martha
 Anne of Green Gables (1934) as Mrs. Barry
 The White Parade (1934) as Miss Harrington
 The Fountain (1934) as Susie
 Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) as The Secretary
 Finishing School (1934) as Miss Fisher - Teacher
 Affairs of a Gentleman (1934) as Frances Bennett - Grisham's secretary
 Spitfire (1934) as Etta Dawson
 Black Fury (1935) as Sophie Shemanski
 Magnificent Obsession (1935) as Mrs. Nancy Ashford
 Way Down East (1935) as Cordelia Peabody
 O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935) as Aunt Martha Shields
 Mad Love (1935) as Marie
 Reunion (1936) as Ellie
 Laughing at Trouble (1936) as Mrs. Jennie Nevins
 Can This Be Dixie? (1936) as Miss Beauregard
 Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) as Collins
 Little Miss Nobody (1936) as Teresa Lewis
 Half Angel (1936) as Henrietta Hargraves
 Captain January (1936) as Agatha Morgan
 Everybody's Old Man (1936) as Susan Franklin
 The Crime of Dr. Forbes (1936) as Dr. Anna Burkhart
 Under Cover of Night (1937) as Janet Griswald
 A Family Affair (1937) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 You're Only Young Once (1937) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 First Lady (1937) as Mrs. Mason
 The Barrier (1937) as Mrs. John "Allunia" Gale
 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) as Anna
 Out West with the Hardys (1938) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 Judge Hardy and Son (1939) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 Remember? (1939) as Miss Wilson
 The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939) as Nora
 Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 Tell No Tales (1939) as Miss Bennett
 The Hardys Ride High (1939) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 Four Girls in White (1939) as Miss Bennett
 The Shop Around the Corner (1940) as Flora Kaczek
 Boom Town (1940) as Miss Barnes
 Hullabaloo (1940) as "Sue" Merriweather
 Keeping Company (1940) as Mrs. Forrest
 Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 H. M. Pulham, Esq.(1941) as Miss Rollo - Harry's secretary
 Come Back, Miss Pipps (1941 - Our Gang short) as Miss Pipps
 Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 Love Crazy (1941) as Cecila Landis
 Washington Melodrama (1941) as Mrs. Harrington
 Barnacle Bill (1941) as Aunt Letty
 Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941) as Miss Mathews
 Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 Somewhere I'll Find You (1942) as Miss Coultier
 The Affairs of Martha (1942) as Mrs. Justin I. Peacock
 The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 Woman of the Year (1942) as Matron
 Thousands Cheer (1943) as Second Nurse
 Best Foot Forward (1943) as Miss Talbert
 Pilot No. 5 (1943) as Landlady
 Above Suspecion (1943) as Aunt Hattie
 The Youngest Profession (1943) as Sister Lassie
 Lost Angel (1943) as Rhoda Kitterick
 Broadway Rhythm (1944) as Miss Wynn
 Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945) as Laura Pitts
 Our Vines Have Tender Grapes(1945) as Mrs. Bjorn Bjornson
 Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) as Aunt Milly Forrest
 Mr. Ace (1946) as Alma Rhodes
 Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946) as Miss Dill
 Bad Bascomb (1946) as Tillie Lovejoy
 She-Wolf of London (1946) as Martha Winthrop
 The Bishop's Wife (1947) as Mildred Cassaway
 Rachel and the Stranger (1948) as Mrs. Jackson
 Roughshod (1949) as Ma Wyatt
 The Big Cat (1949) as Mrs. Mary Cooper
 A Life of Her Own (1950) as Smitty
 The Great Rupert (1950) as Mrs. Katie Dingle
 Wagons West (1952) as Elizabeth Cook
 Rodeo (1952) as Agatha Cartwright
 A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) as Lula May McManamee
 The Outlaw's Daughter (1954) as Mrs. Merril
 Betrayed Women (1955) as Head Guard Darcy
 Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958) as Aunt Milly Forest

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<mask> (born March 5, 1999) is an American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). Following a stint with Georgia, he played college football at Ohio State, where he was twice recognized as the Graham–George Offensive Player of the Year and appeared in the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship. He was selected by the Bears in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft. Early years
<mask> attended Harrison High School in Kennesaw, Georgia. In two years as the starting quarterback for Harrison, he totaled 4,187 passing yards, 41 passing touchdowns, 2,096 rushing yards and 28 rushing touchdowns. In the summer before his senior year in 2017, he attended the Elite 11 quarterback competition and was named MVP of the event. Late in his senior year, in a game that was nationally televised on ESPN, he suffered a broken finger that required season ending surgery.After his senior season, he was named Mr. Georgia Football by the Touchdown Club of Atlanta, as well as first-team all-state. In addition to football, <mask> was also a standout baseball player for Harrison High. <mask> was rated as a five-star recruit and was the highest rated dual-threat quarterback in the class of 2018 by ESPN, Rivals.com, and 247Sports.com. ESPN listed him as the top recruit overall, while Rivals and 247Sports ranked him second behind fellow quarterback Trevor Lawrence. In October 2017, <mask> committed to the University of Georgia to play college football after withdrawing a previous commitment to Penn State. His senior year was documented in the second season of the Netflix series QB1: Beyond the Lights (2018). College career

Georgia
In his true freshman season at Georgia in 2018, <mask> served as the backup to starting quarterback Jake Fromm.In Georgia's season opener against Austin Peay, <mask> made his debut in the second quarter and started the second half. He completed seven of eight passes on the day, including a 10-yard touchdown pass to Isaac Nauta in the 45–0 victory. On September 29, against Tennessee, he had five carries for 45 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns in the 38–12 victory. In a late-season 66–27 rout of UMass, <mask> threw two touchdowns passes and ran for another on the ground, finishing with 121 passing yards and 100 rushing yards. During the 2018 season, <mask> saw action in 12 games, totaling 328 passing yards, four passing touchdowns, 266 rushing yards, and four rushing touchdowns. Following Georgia's loss to Alabama in the 2018 SEC Championship Game, <mask> announced his intent to transfer to Ohio State. Ohio State
<mask>, who would normally be required to sit out for one year due to NCAA transfer rules, sought a waiver to be able to play immediately for Ohio State.<mask> enlisted the help of attorney Thomas Mars, who helped secure immediate eligibility for several transfers from Ole Miss in 2018, including quarterback Shea Patterson. Mars and <mask> argued that <mask> should be granted a waiver for immediate eligibility due to an NCAA guideline that waives the waiting period for athletes with "documented mitigating circumstances that are outside the student-athlete’s control and directly impact the health, safety and well-being of the student-athlete." <mask> was subject to an incident at Georgia in which a Bulldogs baseball player used a racial slur against <mask>. This was believed to be the main incident constituting <mask>' claim of "mitigating circumstances", although the full contents of the waiver request were never made public. On February 8, 2019, <mask> was granted immediate eligibility for the 2019 season by the NCAA. 2019
In <mask>' first season with the Buckeyes, he helped lead the team to a Big Ten Championship with a 34–21 victory over Wisconsin, and a spot in the College Football Playoff. <mask> finished in third in voting for the Heisman Trophy, was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and first-team all-conference.In the 2019 Fiesta Bowl against Clemson, he had 320 passing yards, one touchdown, and two interceptions in the 29–23 loss in the College Football Playoff semifinal. He finished the season with 3,273 passing yards, 41 passing touchdowns, and three interceptions to go along with 484 rushing yards and ten rushing touchdowns. 2020
<mask> entered the 2020 season as a leading candidate for the Heisman Trophy. The season was played amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with the Big Ten Conference ultimately opting for a shortened conference-only schedule after initially canceling the season. <mask> was vocal in his support of playing the season, and he started an online petition that gathered over 320,000 signatures in support of that goal. <mask> helped lead the Buckeyes to another undefeated regular season and Big Ten Championship with a 22–10 victory over Northwestern. Ohio State received another bid to the College Football Playoff, playing a rematch against Clemson.Ohio State was victorious in the rematch, 49–28, with <mask> throwing 385 passing yards and six touchdowns in the game. <mask> took a hard hit to the midsection in the game, and played through the injury in a performance that Sports Illustrated dubbed "legendary". The Buckeyes advanced to the College Football Playoff National Championship, where they lost to Alabama, 52–24. <mask> finished the shorted 2020 season with 2,100 passing yards, 22 passing touchdowns, six interceptions, and added 383 rushing yards and five rushing touchdowns on the ground. He repeated as the Big Ten's Offensive Player of the Year and unanimous first-team all-conference. On January 18, 2021, <mask> announced that he would be forgoing his final year of eligibility to enter the 2021 NFL Draft. Statistics

Professional career

<mask> was selected 11th overall in the 2021 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears, who traded up with the New York Giants in exchange for the 20th overall pick, their fifth-round pick in 2021, and their first and fourth-round picks in 2022.A top quarterback prospect in the draft, <mask> was one of five taken in first round. He signed his four-year rookie contract, worth $18.8 million fully guaranteed, on June 10, 2021. 2021
Although <mask> was named the second-string quarterback behind Andy Dalton, he made his NFL debut in the season opener against the Los Angeles Rams, taking the field on four plays. He scored a five-yard rushing touchdown and completed two passes for ten yards in the 14–34 defeat. After Dalton suffered a knee injury during a Week 2 matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals, <mask> entered the game in the third quarter. <mask> completed six of 13 passes for 60 yards and one interception while also rushing for 31 yards as the Bears won 20–17. With Dalton remaining sidelined from his injury, he was named the starter in the following week's matchup against the Cleveland Browns.His starting debut saw him sacked nine times, four and a half of which were delivered by defensive end Myles Garrett, while completing six of 20 passes for 68 yards. The Bears, who finished with 47 yards of offense, lost 6–26. <mask> won his first career start the next week in a 24–14 victory against the Detroit Lions. He completed 11 of 17 passes for 209 yards and had one interception off a deflected pass. After <mask> was named the starter for the remainder of the season, he led the Bears to a 20–9 victory over the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 5, completing 12 of 20 passes for 111 and throwing his first touchdown pass to tight end Jesper Horsted. In Week 7 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, <mask> committed five turnovers – three interceptions and two lost fumbles – as the Bears were defeated 3–38. <mask> had his first 100 yard rushing game the next week against the San Francisco 49ers, where he threw for 175 yards and a touchdown and also scored a rushing touchdown.However, the game ended in a 22–33 defeat, with <mask> throwing an interception on the Bears' final drive. In the following week's Monday Night Football matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers, <mask> threw for a career-high 291 yards, but despite rallying to give the Bears a 27–26 lead in the fourth quarter, the Steelers pulled away to win 27–29. In Week 11 against the Baltimore Ravens, <mask> exited the game during the third quarter with an injury to his ribs. He was replaced by Dalton in the 13–16 loss. After the game, it was announced that <mask> had multiple cracked ribs, which forced him to miss the Bears' next two matchups. He returned in a Week 14 loss to the Green Bay Packers, but an ankle injury in the following week's defeat to the Minnesota Vikings sidelined him for another two games. <mask> later tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the season finale, making the Week 15 game the last of his rookie year.He finished the season fifth in quarterback rushing yards at 420, the most among rookies, but also tied Kirk Cousins for the third-most quarterback fumbles at 12 and had the second-most lost fumbles at five. NFL career statistics

Personal life
<mask> was diagnosed with epilepsy as a freshman in high school. His condition was made public during his pre-draft interviews with NFL teams in 2021. In high school, <mask> had a score of 29 on his ACT and held a 3.9 grade point average. Field's younger sister, Jaiden, attends and plays softball at the University of Georgia. References

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