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With only 49 days left until college football returns, let’s remember Bob Chappuis from Michigan, who wore #49.

University of Michigan from 1942, 1946-1947

  • College Football Hall of Fame
  • 1947 All-American
  • Finished second in Heisman Trophy voting in 1947
  • Big Ten rushing champion in 1946
  • Michigan MVP in 1946
  • Big Ten single-season passer rating
  • Single-season yards/completion ratio record
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[–] Manibusan@fanaticus.social 1 points 2 years ago

Robert Richard Chappuis played halfback and quarterback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1942, 1946, and 1947. His college years were interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Chappuis flew 21 missions as a radio operator and aerial gunner on B-25 bombers in the European Theater. His aircraft was shot down in February 1945 in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy. Chappuis parachuted from the plane before it crashed, and Italian partisans rescued him by hiding Chappuis and two other crew members for the final three months of the war.