Alan Page biography
Alan Page, in full Alan Cedric Page, (born August 7, 1945, Canton, Ohio, U.S.), American gridiron soccer participant, jurist, and author who in 1971 turned the primary defensive participant to win the Most Valuable Player award of the National Football League (NFL). He later served as an affiliate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court (1993–2015).
At the University of Notre Dame (1963–67), Page performed defensive finish for the 1966 nationwide championship crew, receiving All-America honours. After graduating he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. With the Vikings, he performed defensive deal with and joined with Jim Marshall, Carl Eller, and Gary Larsen to kind the legendary line of defense referred to as the “Purple People-Eaters.” He was named Rookie of the Year in 1967.
With the Vikings, Page appeared in 4 Super Bowls and was named All-Pro yearly from 1970 to 1977. Weighing 240 kilos (109 kg), he was comparatively small for a lineman, but he was so uncommonly fast that he was usually throughout the road of scrimmage earlier than his opponents might cease him. In 1971, his finest season, he recorded 109 tackles, 35 assists, 10 quarterback sacks, and three safeties.
In the center of his profession, Page took up operating and even competed in marathons. The coaching led to a lack of weight to beneath 220 kilos (100 kg), nevertheless, and he was launched by the Vikings in 1978. He performed the ultimate 4 years of his profession with the Chicago Bears. The unofficial file exhibits that, in his 15 years {of professional} soccer, Page by no means missed a recreation, beginning in 236 contests. He held a profession file for highest variety of safeties and blocked kicks. Page was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988.
During his enjoying days, Page entered regulation faculty and in 1978 earned a regulation diploma from the University of Minnesota. He went into non-public follow in 1979 after which joined the Minnesota lawyer common’s workplace in 1985. In 1993 he turned an affiliate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, serving till 2015, when he hit the courtroom’s necessary retirement age of 70. With his daughter Kamie Page, he wrote the kids’s books Alan and His Perfectly Pointy Impossibly Perpendicular Pinky (2013) and The Invisible You (2014). In 2018 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.