page_title: Bill McColl
section_title: Professional football career
hierarchical_section_title: Bill McColl / Professional football career
caption_attribution_description: English: American football player Bill McColl on a 1952 Bowman Large card.
context_page_description: William Frazer McColl Jr. is an American athlete, surgeon, and politician. He is best remembered as a college football star before becoming a professional with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League, for whom he played from 1952 to 1959. He played college football at Stanford, where he was a two-time consensus All-American and third runner up in the 1951 Heisman Trophy voting. In 1951, he was the first person to receive the W.J. Voit Memorial Trophy as the outstanding football player on the Pacific Coast.
  McColl was also a three-time candidate for United States Congress, running as a Republican in his native state of California.
  McColl was inducted into the San Diego Hall of Champions Breitbard Hall of Fame in 1965. He was also inducted into the Stanford University Athletic Hall of Fame and into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973.
context_section_description: Bill McColl was drafted in the 3rd Round of the 1952 NFL draft, the 32nd pick overall. He was selected by George Halas's Chicago Bears — for whom he would play his entire 8 year National Football League career.
  Switching from his collegiate number 3 to jersey number 83 in the pros, McColl would play in all 96 regular season games of his 8-year NFL career for the Bears. As a professional, he would catch 201 balls for more than 2,800 yards, including 25 receptions for touchdown.
  In the 1956 NFL season, McColl threw the longest pass completion of the year (79 yards) in an end around pass against the New York Giants and had the sixth longest reception at 69 yards.
  McColl's career year was his seventh in the league, 1958, during which he hauled down 35 passes for 517 yards. McColl's 8 TD receptions in 1958 would place him third among receivers in the league, with only two co-leaders ahead of him with 9 touchdown grabs.
caption: McColl on a 1952 Bowman football card.
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