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 40 days until college football is back, is Elroy Hirsch.
Known as “Crazylegs,” Hirsch is firmly cemented in Wisconsin football history.
He played just one season for the Badgers in 1942, committing to UW out of his hometown of Wausau, Wisconsin.