Gil Berry
Berry as a collegian in 1931 | |||||||||||||
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| Position | Halfback | ||||||||||||
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| Born | March 21, 1911 Lewistown, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Died | April 20, 1974 (aged 63) Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 178 lb (81 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | Abingdon (IL) | ||||||||||||
| College | Illinois | ||||||||||||
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Gilbert Irwin Berry Sr. (March 21, 1911 – April 20, 1974) was an American football halfback who played collegiately for the University of Illinois in the early thirties and for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) during the 1935 season. In later years he was the director of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network, for which he was honored with an international broadcasting award by Sports Illustrated magazine.