{"id":10613,"date":"2015-10-17T00:47:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T05:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=10613"},"modified":"2015-10-17T00:47:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T05:47:19","slug":"the-only-supreme-justice-who-is-the-college-hall-of-fame-and-also-the-pro-football-hall-of-fame-mbs-sports-congratulates-alan-page-the-player-the-judge-the-hall-of-famer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=10613","title":{"rendered":"THE ONLY SUPREME JUSTICE WHO IS THE COLLEGE HALL OF FAME AND ALSO THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, MBS SPORTS CONGRATULATES ALAN PAGE, THE PLAYER, THE JUDGE, THE HALL OF FAMER."},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Cedric Page (born August 7, 1945) is an American<\/a> jurist<\/a> and former professional football<\/a> player. He is an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court<\/a>, a position to which he was first elected in 1992, and first gained fame as a defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in the 1970s. Page is a member of both the College Football Hall of Fame<\/a> and the Pro Football Hall of Fame<\/a>, and is considered one of the greatest defensive linemen<\/a> ever to play the game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page graduated from Central Catholic High School in 1963 and received a B.A.<\/a> in political science from the University of Notre Dame<\/a> in 1967 and a J.D.<\/a> from the University of Minnesota Law School<\/a> in 1978. He is married to Diane Sims Page and is the father of four children.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page graduated from Central Catholic High School, in Canton, Ohio, in 1964. He starred in several sports and excelled in football. Page also worked on a construction team that erected the Pro Football Hall of Fame, laying the groundwork for the building in which he would one day be enshrined.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After high school, Page attended the University of Notre Dame, where he led the school\u2019s football program to a national championship in 1966. That same year, Page was named a college football All-American.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page was presented with one of the 1992 Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA)<\/a> for achieving personal distinction since his graduation. In 1993 he was inducted into College Football Hall of Fame<\/a>. In 2005 he was awarded the National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1967 Page participated in the East-West Shrine Game<\/a> and 25 years later received the “Babe Hollingbery” Award for his performance as he was inducted to that game’s Hall of Fame. Named to the Academic All-American Hall of Fame in 2001 and as such received the Dick Enberg<\/a> Award. Also a winner of the Walter Camp Alumni of the Year<\/a> in 1988. \u00a0In 2002 he was inducted into International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame. He was the 2004 winner of the Theodore Roosevelt Award (NCAA)<\/a>, which is awarded to graduates from an NCAA institution who earn a varsity letter for athletics and who ultimately become distinguished citizens of national reputation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A bronze of Page is on the just-completed Pro Football Hall of Fame-themed gate at Notre Dame Stadium (Gate C).<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The lessons that I learned from professional football were many: hard work, discipline, focus, the ability to analyze a problem and work through it. To accept that you don’t always win and when you do win that doesn’t change who you are.” Alan C. Page, 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n

After graduating from Notre Dame, Page was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, for whom he played from 1967 until 1978. In 1978 Page joined the Chicago Bears<\/a>, with whom he played through the 1981 season and where he amassed 40 of his career sacks. He is one of 11 players to have played for the Vikings in all four Super Bowls in which they appeared.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a right defensive tackle, he had an unusual 3-point stance, placing his left rather than his right hand on the ground. During Page\u2019s 15-year NFL tenure, the Vikings won an impressive four conference titles and one league championship. Page was a member of the Vikings’ “Purple People Eaters<\/a>,” a defensive line adept at sacking or hurrying the quarterback. Page played in 218 consecutive games without an absence (215 consecutive in the starting line-up<\/a>), during which he recovered 22 fumbles, made 148\u00bd sacks (Vikings-108\u00bd,[3]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> Bears-40), and scored three touchdowns (two on fumble recoveries and one on an interception return). He also had three safeties, the second most in NFL history. He set a career high with 18 sacks in 1976 and is unofficially credited with five other seasons of 10 sacks or more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While in the NFL, Page earned All-Pro<\/a> honors six times and made second-team all-league three additional times. He was voted to nine consecutive Pro Bowls. He was voted All-Conference 11 times, in 1968 and 1969 as All-Western Conference and in 1970 through 1977 and 1980 as an All-National Football Conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1971 Page was named both the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year<\/a> (the first player to be named such) and the AP\u2019s NFL Most Valuable Player<\/a>. Page was the first defensive player to be named MVP since the award\u2019s inception. Only one other defensive player has ever received the award. In addition, he was voted the NEA NFL Defensive Player of the Year<\/a> in 1973.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page was National Football League Players Association<\/a> player representative from 1970 to 1974 and in 1976\u20131977, and a member of the NFLPA Association Executive Committee from 1972 to 1975. He was named to the Vikings’ 40th Anniversary Team in 2000. Along the way, Page was named the Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Week three times: Week 9, 1967; Week 8, 1968; Week 13, 1971. In 1988 Page was further honored by his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame<\/a>. In 1999 he was ranked number 34 on The Sporting News’<\/i> list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the highest-ranking Viking player. He received the NFL Alumni Career Achievement Award in 1995 for attaining success in his post-NFL career.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After his playing career he dabbled in the media, first as a color commentator on Turner Broadcasting System<\/a> covering the College Football Game of the Week<\/i> series during the Fall of 1982 and then as a commentator on National Public Radio<\/a> in 1982-83.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Long before Page\u2019s football career came to a close, he was laying the groundwork for his future role as a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. While still playing for the Vikings, Page attended the University of Minnesota Law School<\/a>, from which he received a Juris Doctor in 1978. After graduating, he worked at the Minneapolis law firm Lindquist and Vennum<\/a> from 1979 to 1984 outside the football season. Page was appointed Special Assistant Attorney General in 1985, and soon thereafter promoted to Assistant Attorney General.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1992 Page was elected to an open seat as an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court<\/a>, becoming the first African-American to serve on that court. He was reelected in 1998 (becoming the biggest vote-getter in Minnesota history), again in 2004, and for a final time in 2010: Minnesota has mandatory retirement<\/a> for judges at the end of the month in which they turn 70.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On January 7, 2009, Page was appointed by Chief Justice Eric Magnuson<\/a> to select the three-judge panel that heard the election contest brought by Norm Coleman<\/a> in the 2008 U.S. Senate election<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1988 Page and his wife Diane founded the Page Education Foundation. The Foundation provides much-needed financial and mentoring assistance to students of color in exchange for those students\u2019 commitment to further volunteer service in the community. The Page Education Foundation has awarded grants to more than 6,000 students, who in turn have given more than 400,000 hours of their own time to young children. Upon his retirement from the bench, Justice Page hopes to become a public school teacher so that he might make an even more personal impact on the children the Foundation has served.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page and his daughter Kamie Page have written two children’s books, Alan and His Perfectly Pointy Impossibly Perpendicular Pinky<\/i> (2013) and The Invisible You<\/i> (2014). Proceeds from the sales of these books support the Page Education Foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 1996, Page has volunteered to be a “reading buddy” in the Everybody Wins reading program at a local elementary school.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page\u2019s contributions to the community have not gone unnoticed, and he has been the recipient of a number of awards recognizing the impact he has made on the lives of children throughout the nation. He has also received Honorary Doctorates in Humane Letters from the University of Notre Dame, Winston-Salem State University, and Gustavus Adolphus College, as well as Honorary Doctorates of Laws from the University of Notre Dame, St. John\u2019s University, Westfield State College, Luther College, and the University of New Haven.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page has a passion for running and runs on a regular basis. In 1979 he became the first active NFL player to complete a marathon. His running routine, which he took up while helping his wife quit smoking, is believed to have contributed to his dismissal from the Minnesota Vikings<\/a>. His running schedule of 35\u201340 miles per week during the season, and 55 miles per week in the offseason, caused his weight to drop below that dictated by the Vikings.\u00a0He ran the Ultimate Runner (mile, 10K, 100, 400, 800, marathon all in one day). In 1987, he completed the Edmund Fitzgerald 100k Road Race in Duluth, Minnesota. Page is a regular spectator at the Twin Cities Marathon<\/a>, famous for playing the sousaphone near mile 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2010 Bill McGrane wrote a biography of Page titled All Rise, The Remarkable Journey of Alan Page.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Page owns an extensive collection of Jim Crow<\/a>-related memorabilia.[8]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> He appeared in a 2012 Minnesota-filmed episode of PBS<\/a>‘s Antiques Roadshow<\/a> with an 1865 banner mourning the death of Abraham Lincoln<\/a>. He also owns two antique cars, a 1906 Buick Model F and a 1910 Buick Model 10 Toy Tonneau. He enjoys making Pages’ Lake Washburn Maple Syrup at the cabin each spring.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters: Winston-Salem State University<\/a>, 2000; Gustavus Adolphus College<\/a>, 2003; University of Notre Dame<\/a>, 2004; Duke University<\/a>, 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honorary Doctorates of Law: University of Notre Dame, 1993; St. John’s University<\/a>, 1994; Westfield State College<\/a>, 1994; Luther College<\/a>, 1995; University of New Haven<\/a>, 1999.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ONE OF MANY HONORS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cJustice Alan Page had the foresight to attend the University of Minnesota Law School while making a living as one of the Minnesota Vikings\u2019 famed \u2018Purple People Eaters\u2019 of the late 1960s and \u201970s. He is likely the only state Supreme Court justice in the country to be a member of the college and pro football Halls of Fame. He began his legal career in private practice while still playing football,\u201d said Fletcher D. Handley Jr., chair of the TIPS Plaintiff\u2019s Policy Task Force. \u201cUpon retirement, he became a state assistant attorney general and has been an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 1993. Justice Page also has a long history of community service and has been named on both \u2018100 Influential Minnesotans of the Century\u2019 and \u2018100 Most Important Sports Figures of the Century.\u2019 It is an absolute honor to present Justice Page with the Pursuit of Justice Award.\u201d\"alan-page-on-the-bench\"<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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