Gilchrist Put Bills Into City's Soul ; Team's First Superstar Died Monday at 75
Buffalo News › January 11, 2011
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No athlete in Buffalo history ever had such a short-lived run in Western New York while making such a big impact on the community's sporting consciousness as Cookie Gilchrist.
Gilchrist, a man who ran like a freight train on the field and was larger than life off it, died early Monday of cancer in an assisted-living facility near Pittsburgh. He was 75.See the full content of this document
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Gilchrist Put Bills Into City's Soul ; Team's First Superstar Died Monday at 75
Gilchrist was the first superstar of the Buffalo Bills. His tenure lasted from 1962 to 1964, but his exploits in helping the Bills to their first American Football League championship helped ingrain the Bills as part of the fabric of the society.
"Of all the football players I've seen over my years, he'd be in the top five, there's no question about that," said Joe Collier, a former Bills head coach ...See the full content of this document
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