Ray McLean
A member of four NFL championships with the Chicago Bears as a player in 1940, 1941, 1943, and 1946, he may be best remembered for preceding Vince Lombardi as head coach of the Green Bay Packers in 1958.On defense, he intercepted 18 opponent tosses, while his special teams work also sparkled with three punt returns for touchdowns, one an 89-yard dash against the crosstown Chicago Cardinals.[5] For 64 years, this was the last score via this play in the NFL until New England Patriots' quarterback Doug Flutie's drop kicked conversion in a 28–26 loss to the Miami Dolphins in the regular season finale on January 1, 2006.[6][7] The last successfully drop-kicked field goal still belongs to player-coach Earl "Dutch" Clark of the Detroit Lions; it came from nine yards out in the second quarter of a 16–7 win over the Chicago Cardinals on September 19, 1937.[13] Midway through the 1963 season, McLean entered an Ann Arbor hospital and was diagnosed with cancer; he died several months later at age 48,[17] leaving a wife and four children.