Johnny Lujack

**John Christopher Lujack Jr.**   (/ˈluːdʒæk/;  Janairu 4, 1925 - Yuli 25, 2023) ya kasance ɗan wasan kwallon kafa na Amurka wanda ya kasance mai tsaron gida da aminci. Ya buga wasan Kwallon ƙafa na kwaleji ga Notre Dame Fighting Irish, inda ya lashe Heisman Trophy a shekarar 1947. Ya kuma kasance dan Amurka a duka 1946 da 1947, inda ya jagoranci tawagar zuwa gasar zakarun kasa a duk shekarun da suka gabata. Daga baya ya taka leda a kungiyar Chicago Bears ta National Football League (NFL) daga 1948 zuwa 1951, inda ya karbi lambar yabo ta All-Pro a shekarar 1950.

## Rayuwa ta farko da kwaleji
An haifi Lujack ga Alice da John Luczak,  a cikin 1925 a Connellsville, Pennsylvania,  ƙarami cikin 'ya'ya maza huɗu kuma na biyar a cikin iyali na yara shida. Iyalin sun fito ne daga asalin Poland kuma sun hada da 'yan uwan Valentine ("Val"), Stanislaus ("Stan"), Victoria, Aloysius ("Allie", wanda ya ci gaba da buga wasan kwando), da kuma' yar'uwar Dolores. Mahaifinsa ya yi aiki a Pittsburgh da Lake Erie Railroad na tsawon shekaru talatin a matsayin Mai yin tukunyar ruwa.

Lujack ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta Connellsville kuma ya buga wa kungiyar kwallon kafa ta makarantar daga 1939 zuwa 1941. Ya kuma kasance babban shugaban aji kuma mai ba da jawabi.[1] A makarantar sakandare, ya rubuta wasika a wasanni huɗu; baseball, kwallon kafa, kwando, da waƙa

Kungiyar makarantar sakandare ta Lujack ta 1941, mai suna Cokers ga ma'aikata a masana'antar niƙa kwal waɗanda ke ciyar da murhu, sun tafi 8-0-1, amma ba su yi wasa don gasar zakarun WPIAL ba saboda wasan su na ƙarshe, tare da Brownsville, ya ƙare a cikin 13-13 tie. 

Mutanen da ke Connellsville sun so Lujack ya je Kwalejin Sojojin Amurka (Sojoji) a West Point, har ya kai ga neman wakilin majalisa na gida don alƙawari, amma Lujack, mai sha'awar kwallon Notre Dame daga sauraron watsa shirye-shiryen rediyo, yana da zuciyarsa ta fara wasa a Kudu Bend. Shi ne dalibi na farko na makarantar sakandare ta Connellsville da ya karbi alƙawari zuwa Sojoji.

Lujack ya halarci Jami'ar Notre Dame, inda Frank Leahy ya ba shi tallafin karatu, daga 1942 zuwa 1943 sannan 1946 zuwa 1947. Yaƙin Duniya na II ya katse aikinsa na tsawon shekaru biyu bayan kakar wasa ta biyu, a lokacin da ya yi aiki a matsayin jami'in sojan ruwa na Amurka. An yi amfani da lokacinsa a cikin Sojojin Ruwa don farautar jiragen ruwa na Jamus a cikin Channel Channel a matsayin ensign. A shekara ta 1945, Johnny Lujack ya zama quarterback na Fort Pierce Amphibs, ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta soja da ke Fort Pierce, Florida.

## Ayyukan sana'a
An biya Lujack $ 17,000 don kakar wasa ta 1948 tare da Bears da $ 20,000 don kakar wasa na huɗu da ta ƙarshe. A cikin kakar wasa ta farko ya buga wasan tsaron baya da kicker, a lokacin da ya yi wasanni takwas don yadudduka 131 kuma ya kori 44 daga cikin karin maki 46.

A lokacin rani na shekara ta 1949, Lujack ya fito a cikin shirin rediyo a kan ABC, The Adventures of Johnny Lujack, wanda ya maye gurbin Jack Armstrong, wasan kwaikwayo na All-American Boy. Shirin ne na minti 30 kuma ana watsa shi a ranar Litinin, Laraba, da Jumma'a. An watsa wasan kwaikwayon ne daga ɗakunan WGN a Birnin Chicago a kan Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS) kuma ya gudana na makonni 13.

A wasan karshe na kakar 1949, Bears 9-3 sun doke abokan hamayyarsu, Chicago Cardinals (6-5-1), da ci 52-21 a ranar 11 ga watan Disamba. A cikin wannan wasan, Lujack ya jefa kwallaye shida kuma ya kafa rikodin NFL tare da yadudduka 468 masu wucewa. Daga baya Norm Van Brocklin ya karya rikodin. Shi ne dan wasan karshe na Bears da ya jefa akalla kwallaye biyar a wasan har sai Mitchell Trubisky ya jefa shida a kan Tampa Bay Buccaneers a shekarar 2018.