Chuck Hughes, 28, is dead. It is October 24, 1971. Fifty years ago this Sunday. Across more than 100 years of league play, he remains the only NFL player to die during a game. TSN ARCHIVES ...

Some older NFL fans may remember the last time an event like this took place. Back in 1971, Chuck Hughes became the first and so far only player in NFL history to die on-field due to a heart attack.

On a gloomy, damp afternoon more than 50 years ago, 54,418 excited football fans made their ... little-used Chuck Hughes, who entered the game in the fourth quarter replacing the injured Larry ...

For some fans, the 24-year-old Bills star’s medical emergency evokes the death of Chuck Hughes more than 50 years ago, who also collapsed during a game. To date, Hughes remains the only NFL ...

There, lying face down on a muddy field, rests the body of Chuck Hughes ... I can’t help but think about Hughes and football and what the NFL wants us to see (and not see).

In fact, there has only been one player who passed away during an NFL game since its 100-year-plus inception, and it was due to a heart attack. To this day, Chuck Hughes remains the only player to ...

Chuck Hughes had loved football since he was little, Sharon Hughes said, and she always supported him in his passion. She said she felt genetics played a bigger part in her husband’s death than ...

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Butkus was on the field during an Oct. 1971 game against the Detroit Lions when wide receiver Chuck Hughes collapsed ... on the field during an NFL game. The sight of Hughes lying on the ground ...

It is believed Hughes is the only player from the NFL who died while competing in a game. Chuck Hughes as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles. Although a walk-on at Texas Western (later the ...

A newspaper clipping shows Sharon Hughes, widow of Detroit Lions football player Chuck Hughes, sitting beside his casket at graveside services Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1971 in San Antonio, Texas.