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Two-Sport Star
Carroll Hardy Dave Logan
CU’s Carroll Hardy is one of just a handful of
athletes who played both professional football
and one other professional sport. He played
one year with the San Francisco 49ers (1955),
catching 12 passes for 338 yards (28.2 average)
and four touchdowns in 10 games. He went on
to play eight different seasons in the major
leagues, with Cleveland (1958-60), Boston (AL,
1960-62), Houston (1963-64) and Minnesota
(1967). Hardy became best known for being the
only man to ever pinch-hit for Ted Williams, but
was also the only one to do it for Carl
Yastrzemski; he also hit his first major league
homerun as a pinch-hitter—for Roger Maris.
Colorado’s “Mr. Irrelevants”
Three-Sport Star
CU’s Dave Logan enjoyed a nine-year career in
the NFL, spending eight seasons with the
Cleveland Browns and his final year with the
Denver Broncos. He caught 263 passes for
4,250 yards (a 16.2 average) and 24 touchdowns.
Logan might just be the only athlete
ever drafted in three sports. A third round pick
of the Browns in 1976, Logan was also drafted
by Kansas City in the ninth round of the 1976
NBA draft (forward), and was drafted as a
shortstop in the 19th round out of high school
by the Cincinnati Reds in the June 1972 Major
League Baseball draft. He lettered in football
and basketball at Colorado.
Jim Kelleher Randy Essington
Colorado remains the only school in the nation to “boast” about having two “Mr. Irrelevants.”
Begun in 1976, the honor is bestowed on the last selection of the annual National Football League
draft. In 1977, the Minnesota Vikings made fullback Jim Kelleher the last pick of the draft, and in
1984, the Los Angeles Raiders selected quarterback Randy Essington to close the books on that
year’s proceedings.
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Other Tidbits
Dick Anderson
Colorado has had its share of flurries in the NFL
Draft. In the 1995 draft, seven CU players were
selected among the first 71 picks, the most ever
from one school at the time in the first 75 picks
of any NFL Draft ..... In the 1991 draft, six Buffs
were selected in the first 69 picks, and in 1976,
six were picked in the first 72 ..... In the 1977
draft, five Buffs were selected in the second
round, and within 18 picks of each other .....
Colorado had 58 players drafted last decade
(1991-2000 drafts), the second most in the
nation ..... On four occasions, Buffaloes have
been selected back-to-back: in 1968, 1976
(twice) and in 1993; in ’76 and ’93, it happened
in the first round ..... Colorado had at least one
player selected in the first round in three consecutive
years (1993-94-95), and had players
picked in the first round five times in the 1990s
..... A real unique quirk came in 1996, when CU
had five of its seven seniors selected, with a
sixth signing as a free agent ..... In the 2003
draft, CU’s six players selected topped the Big
12 and were the sixth most nationally ..... A
couple of Colorado football lettermen, Bob
Frederic (’45) and Alabama Glass (’53) were
long-time officials in the National Football
League ..... Dick Anderson (’67) was the
Defensive Most Valuable Player in the NFL in
1973 ..... Rashaan Salaam (’94) was selected as
the Rookie-of-the-Year in the NFC for 1995.
Alabama Glass