As the countdown to the first Wisconsin football game of the season continues, Badger of Honor is taking a look at Badgers by the numbers, checking in on a different Badger or Badgers players who wore the number corresponding with the remaining days until the Badgers head to Texas to take on the Alabama Crimson Tide Saturday, Sept. 5.
Next up in our countdown, signifying 36 days until college football is back, is Earl Girard.
Known as “Jug,” Girard played quarterback, safety and punter for the Badgers in 1944 and 1947.
Born and raised in Marinette, Wisconsin, Jug turned down offers to play professional baseball while he was still in high school, choosing instead to enroll at UW Madison.