Rockford High School’s Laurie Walquist is one of the pioneers of football and one of the greatest all-around athletes in Rockford history.
In football, Walquist led Rockford High School to a conference
title and the University of Illinois to a Western Conference championship. He
was All-Western Conference in 1919 and 1920 and team captain in 1921. Walquist
then played for the Chicago Bears for eight seasons. The Bears were winners in
seven of those and Walquist lined up with some of the legends of the game,
including George Halas, Red Grange and Bronco Nagurski.
Walquist played left and right halfback and occasionally quarterback in the old
single-wing offense where backfield players could run, pass or go out as receivers
at any time.
Walquist also starred at basketball at Rockford High, played three years for
Illinois, including being named All-Western Conference in 1922, and played a
few years of professional basketball.
Walquist died in 1985.
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Laurie Walquist statistics |
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Rockford High School |
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G |
Pass TD |
Rush TD |
Rec. TD |
XP |
Int. TD |
Record |
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1916 |
9 |
NA |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
6-3-1 |
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1917 |
7 |
NA |
5 |
0 |
12 |
1 |
6-1-0 |
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Totals |
16 |
|
6 |
0 |
13 |
1 |
12-4-1 |
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University of Illinois |
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G |
Pass TD |
Rush TD |
Rec. TD |
XP |
Int. TD |
Record |
|
1919 |
7 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6-1-0 |
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1920 |
7 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5-2-0 |
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1921 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3-4-0 |
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Totals |
21 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
14-7-0 |
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Chicago Bears |
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G |
Pass TD |
Rush TD |
Rec. TD |
XP |
Int. TD |
Record |
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1922 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
9-3-0 |
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1924 |
9 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6-1-4 |
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1925 |
16 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
9-5-3 |
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1926 |
15 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
12-1-3 |
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1927 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
9-3-2 |
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1928 |
12 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7-5-1 |
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1929 |
13 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4-9-2 |
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1930 |
10 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
9-4-1 |
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1931 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8-5-0 |
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Totals |
111 |
4 |
10 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
73-36-16 |
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