Question: James Isaac "Preacher" Pilot was the first player since which American football player, military pilot, and sports broadcaster known as "Old 98"?

Context articles: Chris Harris (basketball)
Tom Harmon
Clive Tyldesley
Tunch Ilkin
Brad Nelson (Magic: The Gathering player)
Preacher Pilot
Dick Rifenburg
James Miller (basketball)
Radivoj Božić
Wayne Walker

Christopher R. Harris (born 11 August 1933) is a British retired sports broadcaster and professional basketball player.
 A 6'3" guard, he was the first player from England to compete in the American National Basketball Association (NBA).
Thomas Dudley Harmon (September 28, 1919 – March 15, 1990), sometimes known by the nickname "Old 98", was an American football player, military pilot, and sports broadcaster.
Clive Tyldesley (born 21 August 1954) is an English television sports broadcaster.
 He has been ITV's senior football commentator since the retirement of Brian Moore following the 1998 World Cup final.
 In that role, he has led the ITV commentary team at the subsequent 4 World Cups and 4 European Championships, and been lead commentator on the last 17 UEFA Champions League finals as well as taking the microphone at 9 FA Cup finals for ITV.
 He won the prestigious Royal Television Society Sports Commentator of the Year in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005, and was voted the Sony Radio Awards' Sports Broadcaster of the Year in 1983.
 He is colloquially known as 'The Ghanaian' by fans, due to his vocal support of Ghana, during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Tunch Ilkin (born Tunç Ali İlkin, September 23, 1957 in Istanbul) is a Turkish American sports broadcaster and a former American football player.
 He currently serves as a television and radio analyst for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
 He is distinguished as being the first Turk to play in the National Football League.
Brad Nelson is an American player.
 Also known by his name, FFfreaK, he has three top eights, and thirteen top eights, including two wins.
 In 2010, Nelson became the first non-Japanese player since Gabriel Nassif in 2004 and the first American player since Bob Maher in 2000 to earn the title.
 However, Nelson did not receive his title for Player of the Year 2010 until February 2011 after winning the first-ever Player of the Year Tie playoff match against Guillaume Matignon of France.
James Isaac "Preacher" Pilot (January 22, 1941 - January 2, 1991) was an American football player.
 He played for the New Mexico State Aggies football team from 1961 to 1963.
 He led the country in rushing yardage in both 1961 with 1,278 yards and in 1962 with 1,247 yards.
 He was the first player since Tom Harmon to lead the country in rushing yardage in consecutive years.
 He also led the NCAA major colleges in scoring with 138 points (13.8 points per game) in 1961.
Richard Gale "Dick" Rifenburg (August 21, 1926 – December 5, 1994) was an American football player and a pioneering television broadcaster for the forerunner to WIVB-TV in Buffalo.
 He played college football for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1944 and from 1946 to 1948.
 He was a consensus selection at end on the 1948 College Football All-America Team.
 Rifenburg played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Lions for one season in 1950.
 After retiring from football he settled in Buffalo and became a sports broadcaster.
 He worked as a color commentator and as a play-by-play announcer for the Buffalo Bulls.
 He hosted various television and radio sports shows and was eventually inducted into the Buffalo Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
James Isaac "J. J." Miller, Jr. (born August 23, 1979) is an American professional basketball player.
 He plays overseas since 2001 and has played in multiple countries, including France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden.
 Since 2012 he is a Borås Basket player and one of the top players in the Swedish Basketligan.
Radivoj Božić () (26 January 1912 – 1948) was a Serbian Yugoslavia international football player.
 After finishing his football career he became a military pilot in the Royal Yugoslav Air Force and during the Second World War for the Yugoslav Partisans.
Wayne Harrison Walker (September 30, 1936 – May 19, 2017) was an American professional football player and sports broadcaster.
 He played fifteen seasons with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, as a linebacker and placekicker.
 Walker played in 200 regular season games, the second most for a defensive player at the time.
 He played in three Pro Bowls and was thrice selected as a first-team All-NFL player.
 After the 1972 season, he retired as a player and was a sports broadcaster for CBS and the sports director for KPIX-TV in San Francisco from 1974 to 1994.
 Walker was a weekend sportscaster during the off-season during his later years as a Detroit Lion.