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Rookie Red Grange getting tackled at Cub's Park (later Wrigley Field) in his first professional game for the Chicago Bears, playing against their Southside rivals, the Chicago Cardinals, Chicago, Illinois, November 27, 1925. Grange received for his efforts the sum of $12,000 and a black eye. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Rookie Red Grange getting tackled at Cub's Park (later Wrigley Field) in his first professional game for the Chicago Bears, playing against their Southside rivals, the Chicago Cardinals, Chicago, Illinois, November 27, 1925. Grange received for his efforts the sum of $12,000 and a black eye. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)