Detroit Lions WR Chuck Hughes is the only player to die during an NFL game: 1971 against the Chicago Bears at Tiger Stadium. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX 🏀⚽️🥇 KPMG ...

Back in 1971, Chuck Hughes became the first and so far only player in NFL history to die on-field due to a heart attack. Looking to predict NFL playoff Scenarios?

That’s brought back memories of Chuck Hughes — the only NFL football player to die on the field during a game. Recommended Videos Hughes died of a heart attack on Oct. 24, 1971, after ...

CHICAGO – It’s a moment that brought shock and sadness to players and fans in the National ... (AP Photo/Jim Mone) Chuck Hughes was a reserve wide receiver for the Detroit Lions when he ...

“Player collapse. Possibly cardiac arrest ... who through the years has become of avid collector of Chuck Hughes football memorabilia. Just last week, family members gathered to memorialize ...

Widow of only NFL player to die on the field responds to Damar Hamlin cardiac arrest: ‘You can’t blame football’ Detroit Lions player Chuck Hughes, 28, suffered a fatal heart attack in a ...

Team doctor Edwin Gis, right, attends to Chuck Hughes shortly ... resuming play, the players were not thinking of resuming play,” said NFL executive vice president of Football Operations Troy ...

A newspaper clipping shows Sharon Hughes, widow of Detroit Lions football player Chuck Hughes, sitting beside his casket at graveside services Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1971 in San Antonio, Texas.

Detroit Lions WR Chuck Hughes is the only player to die during an NFL game: ... 54,418 excited football fans made their pilgrimage to Tiger Stadium to see if the Detroit Lions, ...

Detroit Lions WR Chuck Hughes is the only player to die during an NFL game: ... 54,418 excited football fans made their pilgrimage to Tiger Stadium to see if the Detroit Lions, ...

Chuck was a great player and a great person ... he had the disease I would have advised him not to play football." Guise revealed Hughes' parents also "died of what it appears to be heart ...

Detroit Lions WR Chuck Hughes is the only player to die during an NFL game: 1971 against the Chicago Bears at Tiger Stadium.