After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1938 where he was an All-American halfback, Byron "Whizzer" White played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Detroit Lions, and was the NFL's lead rusher in 1938 and 1940.  He attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earned a law degree from Yale, served as Deputy Attorney General under Robert Kennedy and was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962.  Justice White retired in 1993 after 31 years on the Court. He died April 15, 2002.