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Gale Sayers
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American professional football player (1943-2020)
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Gale Sayers was an American professional athlete who played running back for the Chicago Bears in American football. Born in Wichita on May 30, 1943, he was educated at the University of Kansas. He competed for the United States and was recognized in the Pro Football Hall of Fame collection.
After his sports career, Sayers worked as a stockbroker, screenwriter, and film actor. He passed away on September 23, 2020, in Wakarusa due to natural causes, having suffered from dementia. He was known by the nickname "Kansas Comet" and spoke English.
Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Thesportsdb, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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Gale Sayers is indexed among the 315 entries in Vinony's Pro Football Hall of Fame collection.
Vinony's link graph records 1,138 inbound references to Gale Sayers, and connects out to NFL Rookie of the Year, National Football League Comeback Player of the Year Award and National Football League 75th Anniversary All-Time Team.
It sits within the topics 1943 births, 2020 deaths and 20th-century African-American sportsmen.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Film & TV
Wichita, Kansas
Known for
- Sports on the Silver Screen — Self (archive footage)1997
- Reggie's Prayer1996
via TMDB
Sports profile
- Sport
- American Football
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eugene
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Wichita
- Place of death
- Wakarusa
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- American football
- Member of team
- Chicago Bears
- Position played
- running back
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 90
- Image
- Gale-Sayers-Jan052008-ArmyFBAwards.jpg
- Height
- 1.83
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- Commons category
- Gale Sayers
- date of birth
- 1943-05-30
- date of death
- 2020-09-23
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- dementia
- nickname
- Kansas Comet
- name in native language
- Gale Sayers
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