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Line 51: '''John Joseph Grigas''' (August 19, 1920{{spaced ndash}}May 19, 2000) was an [[American football]] player. A native of [[Chelsea, Massachusetts]], he played [[college football]] for the [[College of the Holy Cross]] [[Holy Cross Crusaders football\|Crusaders football]] team and was later inducted into the Holy Cross Varsity Club Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web\|title=John J. Grigas Bio\|publisher=Holy Cross\|accessdate=February 18, 2016\|url=http://www.goholycross.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=33100&ATCLID=210240270}}</ref> He also played five seasons from 1943 to 1947 as a fullback and halfback in the [[National Football League]] (NFL). During the 1944 season, he appeared in nine games for the [[Card-Pitt]] (a temporary wartime merger of the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] and [[Chicago Cardinals]]) and ranked first in the NFL with 1,154 all-purpose yards, first with 471 kickoff return yards, second with 610 rushing yards and eighth with 690 passing yards.<ref>{{cite news\|title=1944 NFL Leaders and Leaderboards\|publisher=Sports Reference LLC\|work=Pro-Football-Reference.com\|accessdate=February 19, 2016\|url=http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1944/leaders.htm}}</ref> Grigas ~~would~~could have accumulated even more impressive statistics in 1944, but he quit the team before the final game, leaving the team with a letter citing his mental exhaustion at playing with a team that had gone 0-9 in the first nine games.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Pro Gridders Draw Checks, Go Home\|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\|date=December 5, 1944\|page=14\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4362670/pro_gridders_draws_checks_go_home/}}</ref> ==References==

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