Bob Babich, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame who played linebacker in the NFL for the Chargers and Browns, has died. He was 74.
Babich died April 3 at his home in Clairemont, California. His death was reported by the National Football Foundation on Wednesday.
A native of Youngstown, Ohio, Babich played for former Michigan Wolverines head football coach Bo Schembechler at Miami (Ohio) University. He was a captain and a first-team All-American at linebacker in 1968, subsequently voted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1994. He is still the only player from the Mid-American Conference school in Oxford, Ohio, to be elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.