Alan Page

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Full Name: Alan Cedric Page Primary Position: DE/DT Height/Weight: 6' 5"/244 College: University of Notre Dame Birthdate: August 7, 1945 High School: Central Catholic (Canton, OH) Birthplace: Canton, Ohio Pro Experience: 15 years Hall of Fame

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Alan Page (Alan Cedric Page) was born on August 7, 1945 in Canton, Ohio. After going to high school at Central Catholic (Canton, OH), Page attended the University of Notre Dame. Page made his professional debut in the NFL in 1967 with the Minnesota Vikings. He played for the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears over the course of his 15 year career.

Most people believe that 1970 was Alan Page's best year, as he recovered 7 opponents fumbles and ran back a fumble for a touchdown.

Alan Cedric Page (born August 7 1945 in Canton, Ohio) is a former professional American football player who starred as a defensive lineman in the NFL, primarily with the Minnesota Vikings as a member of the "Purple People Eaters", and then went on to have a distinguished legal career, serving as a current Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

After graduating from Central Catholic High School in his hometown of Canton, Page received a B.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He was an All-American in football in 1966, and was selected by the Vikings in the 1967 NFL Draft. Although he had played defensive end in college, he was moved to defensive tackle with the Vikings. He played for Minnesota from 1967 until the middle of the 1978 season when he was released by the team. The Chicago Bears signed him and he played with the Bears until the end of the 1981 season.

In 1988, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and is the first native of the Hall's home city of Canton to have been inducted. A street is named for him there. In 1979, he became the first NFL player to finish a marathon.He has a career 3.4 ypc against him. In 1993, Page was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and in 2002 he was inducted into the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame.

During Page's tenure, the Vikings won one NFL (1969) and 3 NFC (1973, 1974 and 1976) title games.

Page was named the NFL's "Most Valuable Player" in 1971, the third defensive player to be accorded that honor since the inception of the award in 1938 (the Colts' defensive end Gino Marchetti was the AP MVP in 1958 and Lions' Joe Schmidt was co MVP in 1960). Page was joined on this short list in 1986 by New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor. The four remain the only defensive players to have won the league's top regular season award.

He was also named the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year in 1971 and 1973. Page earned All-Pro honors 6 times and was voted to 9 straight Pro Bowls.

Page received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1978 while at the same playing professional football full-time. He was a lawyer in private practice in Minneapolis from 1979 to 1984 with the law firm Lindquist and Vennum [1]. In 1985, Page was appointed a Special Assistant Attorney General and was soon promoted to Assistant Attorney General. In 1992, he was elected to an open seat as an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He was re-elected in 1998, becoming the biggest vote-getter in Minnesota history. "Justice Purple People Eater" shares fame as a former football player with Justice Whizzer White of the U.S. Supreme Court, now deceased.

He is married to the former Diane Sims and they have two children, Justin and Kamie. Page also has two children from a previous marriage, Nina and Georgi. In 1988, he and his wife founded the Page Education Foundation, which helps minorities go to college. Justice Page has also expressed interest in becoming a public school teacher for a year or two upon retirement from the bench.

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• Won the AP Defensive Player of the Year in 1971
• Won the AP NFL MVP in 1971
• Won the UPI NFC Player of the Year in 1971

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