Albert William Ghesquiere (December 6, 1918 – October 16, 2012), nicknamed "the Crazy Buffalo",[1][2] was an American football player.
Ghesquiere was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and attended St. Paul High School in Grosse Pointe.
After seeing Ghesquiere playing with the university's freshman team in the fall of 1939, Detroit Titans football coach Gus Dorais (who was also the university's athletic director) arranged for him to play football instead of basketball.
[3] He averaged 6.6 yards per carry in 1940, which ranked third best among major college players that year.
[1] Ghesquiere was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles with the 26th pick in the 1941 NFL draft,[4] but he turned down an offer of $1,200 per year and chose not to play professional football.