100 Years of the
WEST SUBURBAN CONFERENCE

ATHLETES HONOR ROLL

BOB MACLEOD -- Glenbard

A state championship hurdler, MacLeod would go on to play both professional football and basketball.  Bob led the Hilltoppers to the 1934 West Suburban Conference football championship, and won the 220-yard low hurdles at the 1935 IHSA track finals with the fastest time ever (24.1) in state meet history.  Playing football at Dartmouth, his coach Earl "Red" Blaik (who would later win three National Championships at Army) called him "the greatest competitive athlete, I've ever coached".  Every Dartmouth opponent in 1937 and 1938 named MacLeod to its all-opponent team.  Bob averaged almost six-yards per carry for three varsity campaigns, an unheard of statistic in the days of single-platoon football.  In 1938, MacLeod was a consensus All-American and placed fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting.  Bob was selected as the fifth pick overall in the 1939 NFL Draft.  MacLeod played for the Chicago Bears in 1939 and scored four touchdowns.  That winter, Bob played on the hardwood for the Chicago Bruins of the National Basketball League, the precursor to the NBA.  Soon afterward, MacLeod would become a U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II.  Bob attained the rank of Major before leaving the service in 1946 and worked in the publishing business where he was the editor and publisher of Harpers Bazaar and Teen Magazine.  MacLeod was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1977.