Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame Heisman winner and Bears quarterback, dies at 98

Notre Dame quarterback Johnny Lujack, left, recceives the Heisman Memorial Trophy from Wilbur Jurden, president of the Downtown Athletic Club in New York, Dec. 10, 1947. Lujack, who went on to play for the Bears, died Tuesday at age 98. (AP)

Legendary Notre Dame quarterback Johnny Lujack was a link to a Bears era that today’s fans probably find incomprehensible — when the Bears had too many good quarterbacks. 

Lujack, the 1947 Heisman Trophy winner at Notre Dame who died in Florida on Tuesday at 98 after a brief illness, was a rookie on the 1948 Bears, with future Hall of Famers Sid Luckman and Bobby Layne.