Johnny Lujack John Christopher Lujack , Jr . ( pronounced Lu ' jack ; born January 4 , 1925 ) is a former American football quarterback and 1947 Heisman Trophy winner . He played college football for the University of Notre Dame , and professionally for the Chicago Bears . Lujack was the first of several successful quarterbacks who hailed from Western Pennsylvania . Others include Pro Football Hall of Fame members Johnny Unitas , Joe Namath , Dan Marino , Jim Kelly , Joe Montana and George Blanda . Biography . Lujack was born to Alice and John , Sr . , in 1925 at Connellsville , Pennsylvania , the youngest of four sons and fifth child in a family of six children . The family , which included older siblings Valentine ( " Val " ) , Stanley ( " Stan " ) , Victoria , Aloysius ( " Allie " ) , and younger sister Dolorous , is of Polish descent . His father , John , Sr . , worked for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad for thirty years as a boiler - maker . He was on the Connellsville High School football team from 1939 to 1941 , and was also senior class president and valedictorian . He lettered in four sports ; baseball , football , basketball , and track , in high school . His 1941 high school team , named the Cokers for workers in the coal milling industry who feed the ovens , went 8 - 0 - 1 , but did not get to play for the WPIAL league championship because their last game , with Brownsville , ended in a 13 - 13 tie . People in Connellsville had wanted him to go to the United States Military Academy ( Army ) at West Point , going so far as to asks their local congressman for an appointment , but Lujack , a fan of Notre Dame from listening to their football radio broadcasts , had his heart set on playing in South Bend . He was the first Connellsville High School student to receive an appointment to Army . Lujack attended Notre Dame , where he was given a scholarship by Frank Leahy , from 1942 – 1943 and then 1946 - 1947 , his career was interrupted for two years by World War II after his sophomore season , where he served in the United States Navy . His time in the Navy was spent hunting German submarines in the English Channel as an ensign . When he returned from the Atlantic ( ETO ) duty he appeared on the cover of the September 29 , 1947 , issue of " LIFE " . He led the 1947 Fighting Irish to 9 - 0 record for his senior year , where he completed 61 passes on a 109 attempts for 777 yards and also ran 139 yards on 12 carries , and won the Heisman Trophy . As he had in high school , he once again received varsity letters ( called " monograms " ) in four sports ( again baseball , football , basketball , and track ) while at Notre Dame , becoming the third person to do so . He was a two - time All - American ( 1946 & 1947 ) and led Notre Dame to three national championships ( 1943 , ' 46 and ' 47 ) . And , in addition to winning the Heisman , he was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year . He was paid USD $ 17 , 000 for his rookie 1948 season and $ 20 , 000 for his fourth and final season . In his rookie season he played defensive back where he had 8 interceptions for 131 yards and kicked 44 out of 46 extra points . In the summer of 1949 he starred in a radio program on ABC , " The Adventures of Johnny Lujack " , was a summer time replacement for the " Jack Armstrong , the All - American Boy " show . It was a 30 - minute program and broadcast on Monday , Wednesday , and Friday . The show was broadcast from the studios of WGN in Chicago over the Mutual Broadcasting System ( MBS ) and ran for 13 - weeks . In the final game of the 1949 season , the 9 and 3 Bears defeated their hometown rivals , the Chicago Cardinals ( 6 - 5 - 1 ) , by a score of 52 - 21 , on December 11 . In that game Lujack threw six touchdown passes and set an NFL record with 468 passing yards . That record was broken at the beginning of the 1951 season by Norm Van Brocklin when he threw for 554 yards in a game between the Los Angeles Rams and New York Yanks , at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on September 28 , 1951 , a record that still stands after over 60 years . His wife is the former Patricia Ann " Pat " Schierbrock , daughter of Josephine ( " née " Wilson ) and Frank H . Schierbrock . Lujack and Schierbrock were married in Davenport , Iowa at the Sacred Heart Cathedral on June 26 , 1949 . They have three children , Mary Pohlmann , Jeff , and Carol ( 1954 - 2002 ) . Sid Luckman and George Blanda played behind Lujack in the rotation at quarterback for the 1949 and 1950 seasons . During the 1950 Chicago Bears season Lujack set an NFL record for most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback at 11 . This record was tied by Tobin Rote with the Green Bay Packers in 1956 , and broken by the New England Patriot ' s Steve Grogan in 1976 . Lujack , named to the 1950 All - Pro First Team , also set a Bears record for 109 total points in a season with 11 touchdowns , 3 ( out of 5 ) field - goals , and 34 ( out of 35 ) extra points . That record was surpassed by Gale Sayers in 1965 with 123 total points . After four years with the Bears he returned to Notre Dame as an assistant coach , for 1952 and 1953 , to repay Frank Leahy as a debt of gratitude for giving him a scholarship to Notre Dame . Leahy wanted Lujack to succeed him as the head coach of the Fighting Irish , but Terry Brennan was chosen instead by Reverend Theodore Hesburgh , the university president . In 1954 he then went into the car dealership business with his father - in - law , at Lujack Schierbrock Chevrolet Company of Davenport , Iowa . He sold his dealership interest to his son - in - law in 1988 . Lujack served as a color commentator , opposite play - by - play man Chris Schenkel for the New York Giants games on CBS NFL telecasts for a number of years in the late 1950s and early 1960s . But , in 1962 when Ford signed on as a major sponsor , and they learned that Lujack was a Chevrolet dealer , he was replaced by Pat Summerall . He also worked with Jim McKay on CBS doing college football . And on ABC college football telecasts in the late 1960s . In 2005 he donated $ 50 , 000 to Connellsville High School toward a new field house for the football stadium . It was later named Johnny Lujack Field House . The Johnny Lujack Training Facility was formally dedicated in 2009 and he was also inducted into the inaugural class of the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame . He now lives in Bettendorf , Iowa , and also has a home in Indian Wells , California where he spends his free time golfing . He is currently the oldest living Heisman Trophy winner .