A tough and highly effective tackler, Bednarik is perhaps best known for knocking Frank Gifford of the New York Giants out of football for over 18 months, with one of the most famous tackles in NFL history, in 1960.

Bednarik had a famous quarrel with Chuck Noll, who once, as a player for the Cleveland Browns, smashed him in the face during a fourth-down punting play.

Nonetheless, sportswriter Hugh Brown of The Bulletin in Philadelphia, credited with bestowing the nickname, remarked that Bednarik " is as hard as the concrete he sells.

To its discoverer and others, e. g., Robert Bednarik, the object had been created by natural geological processes giving it a general human-like shape that was then accentuated by carving it with a stone-wedge ; some artificial smudge stains are interpreted as remnants of red ochre pigments used by humans to further accentuate the human-like form.

Ignat Bednarik exhibited for the first time in Romania in 1913 with Associaţia Artistică ; he subsequently took part in official salons and opened his first individual exhibition in Bucharest in 1915.

Bednarik often associates music with flowers which decorate the interior where the former is being produced ; at times they are so faintly sketched on the canvas as to be almost invisible ( another symbolist trait ).

Mastering the delicate transparency of watercolour, Bednarik surrounds his sitters sometimes with lilies, but more often with roses or peonies.

* Ignat Bednarik ( used with permission )

Eagles players who have been inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame include Chuck Bednarik, Bob Brown, Reggie White, Steve Van Buren, Tommy McDonald, Greasy Neale, Pete Pihos, Sonny Jurgensen and Norm Van Brocklin.

In 1960, the Eagles won their third NFL championship, under the leadership of future Pro Football Hall of Famers Norm Van Brocklin and Chuck Bednarik ; the head coach was Buck Shaw.

* Chuck Bednarik, former professional football player, Philadelphia Eagles, and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame.

During a 1960 game against the Philadelphia Eagles, he was knocked out by Chuck Bednarik on a passing play, suffering a severe head injury that led him to retire from football.

Bednarik played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1949 through 1962 and, upon retirement, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967 ( his first year of eligibility ).

Bednarik was the first player drafted in the 1949 NFL Draft, by the Philadelphia Eagles, starring on both offense ( as a center ) and defense ( as a linebacker ).

In the 1960 NFL Championship Game, Bednarik, the last Eagle between Green Bay's Jim Taylor and the end zone, tackled Taylor on the final play of the game at the Eagles ' eight yard line, and remained atop Taylor as the final seconds ticked off the clock, ensuring the Packers could not run another play and preserving a 17-13 Eagles victory.

When the Eagles established their Honor Roll in 1987, Bednarik was one of the first class of inductees.

During Eagles training camp in the summer of 2006, Bednarik and the Eagles reconciled, seemingly ending the feud between Bednarik and Lurie.

However, at the same time, Bednarik made disparaging remarks regarding Reggie White, an Eagle fan favorite, leading to a somewhat lukewarm reception of the reconciliation by Eagles ' fans.

However, in the August 4 edition of Allentown's Morning Call newspaper, it was reported that Bednarik apologized, stating he had been confused, and meant to make the statement about former Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens.

Allen was behind the WCBS mike when Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Chuck Bednarik levelled Giants running back Frank Gifford during a clash at Yankee Stadium.

** Ignat Bednarik, Romanian painter ( b. 1882 )

The number of important Romanian painters also grew, and the most significant ones were: Nicolae Tonitza, Camil Ressu, Francisc Şirato, Ignat Bednarik, Lucian Grigorescu and Theodor Pallady.

Charles Philip Bednarik ( born May 1, 1925 ) is a former professional American football player, known as one of the most devastating tacklers in the history of football and the last two-way player in the National Football League.

Bednarik currently resides in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley.

His great-nephew, Adam Bednarik, was the starting quarterback at West Virginia University, before suffering an injury in 2005 that opened the door for fellow freshman Pat White, who never relinquished the starting position.

Bednarik began playing football in Bethlehem.

Bednarik flew on 30 combat missions over Germany, for which he was awarded the Air Medal and four Oak Leaf Clusters, the European Theater Operations Medal and four Battle Stars.

Bednarik subsequently attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he was a 60-minute man, excelling as both center and linebacker, as well as occasional punter.

Bednarik proved extremely durable, missing just three games in his 14 seasons.

Bednarik served as an analyst on the HBO program Inside The NFL for its inaugural season in 1977-78.

Ranked one spot ahead of Bednarik at # 34 was Deion Sanders, a player for whom Bednarik has held open contempt in regards to being a two-way player.

Bednarik was not the highest placed Eagle on the NFL Network's list.

He even criticized Troy Brown of the New England Patriots and Deion Sanders of the Dallas Cowboys, two players who also have played both offense and defense, because their positions as a wide receiver and cornerback didn't require as much contact as the center and linebacker positions that Bednarik played.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

Germanicus quarreled with Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, the governor of Syria and died in Antioch in mysterious circumstances.

Huerta quarreled with Madero over the insubordination of Pancho Villa and ultimately turned against Madero during the Decena trágica.

Moving into Villa Nellcôte with the guitarist during the sessions for Exile on Main Street, Parsons remained in a consistently incapacitated state and frequently quarreled with his much younger girlfriend, aspiring actress Gretchen Burrell.

They have quarreled with their respective fathers, they are proud to be Saxons, they display a highly-evolved sense of justice, they support the rightful king even though he is of Norman-French ancestry, they are adept with weapons, and they each fall in love with a " fair maid " ( Rowena and Marian, respectively ).

As the Civil War went on, Booth increasingly quarreled with his brother Edwin, who declined to make stage appearances in the South and refused to listen to John Wilkes ' fiercely partisan denunciations of the North and Lincoln.

She frequently quarreled with her biological children and her stepchildren.

Rhys died excommunicate, having quarreled with the Bishop of St. David's, Peter de Leia, over the theft of some of the bishop's horses some years previously.

Worf also has a human brother, Nikolai, through his adoption by the Rozhenkos, with whom he often quarreled.

When the war was over, he quarreled with the Emperor, resigned and spent the rest of his life in Europe.

When his aunt Louisa asked him in his last weeks if he had made his peace with God, Thoreau responded: " I did not know we had ever quarreled.

Finally he had quarreled with Martinho Rodrigues, the unpopular bishop of Porto, who was besieged for five months in his palace and then forced to seek redress in Rome ( 1209 ).

However, the unexpected death of Otto III in 1002 and the reorientation of the Holy Roman Empire politics by his successor Henry II, the wedding is delayed until 1012, when Bolesław I demanded the wedding and sent his son to Germany with gifts to his bride's family, who at that time quarreled with Henry II for Mathilde's dowry.

The French and Bavarian armies were not working well together, and Broglie actually quarreled with the Bavarian field marshal Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff.

A giant who had quarreled with the Mayor of Shrewsbury went to bury the city with dirt ; however, he met a shoemaker, carrying shoes to repair, and the shoemaker convinced the giant that he had worn out all the shoes coming from Shrewsbury, and so it was too far to travel.

During this time, Gauguin became increasingly disillusioned with Impressionism, and the two quarreled.

Mopsus was venerated as founder in several cities of Pamphylia and the Cilician plain, among them Mopsuestia, " the house ( hestia ) of Mopsus " in Cilicia, and Mallos, where he quarreled with his co-founder Amphilochus and both were buried in tumuli, from which neither could see that of the other.

His twin brother was Proetus, with whom he is said to have quarreled even in the womb of his mother.