John Salmon black plaque

Florence, AZ, United States

Bear Down. Near this site on the evening of October 3, 1926, John "Button" Salmon, student body president and quarterback of the University of Arizona football team, was critically injured in a car accident while returning from a weekend in Phoenix with two classmates. The day before his death on Oc

tober 18, he was visited in the hospital in Tucson by head coach J.F. "Pop" McKale, who asked him if he had a message for the team. Salmon told McKale: "Tell them... tell the team to bear down." Follo

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