Editing Alan Page (section)

{{Short description|American football player and judge (born 1945)}}
{{for|the British Olympic hockey player|Alan Page (field hockey)}}
{{Use American English|date=December 2019}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Alan Page
| image               = 2020JusticeAlanPage.jpg
| image_size          = 210
| caption             = Page in 2020
| order               = 
| office              = Associate Justice of the [[Minnesota Supreme Court]]
| term_start          = January 4, 1993
| term_end            = August 31, 2015
| predecessor         = [[Lawrence R. Yetka]]
| successor           = [[Natalie Hudson]]
| birth_name          = Alan Cedric Page
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1945|8|7}}
| birth_place         = [[Canton, Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = 
| spouse              = {{marriage|Diane Sims Page|1973|2018|end=her death}}
| children            = 4
| residence           = 
| religion            = 
| profession          = {{hlist|Attorney|Judge}}
| awards              = [[File:Presidential Medal of Freedom (ribbon).svg|border|23px]] [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (2018)
| module              = {{Infobox NFL biography
| embed       = yes
| name        = Alan Page
| image       = A Page.png
| image_size  =
| alt         = 
| caption     = Page in 1969
| number      = 88, 82
| position    = [[Defensive tackle]]
| height_ft   = 6
| height_in   = 4
| weight_lb   = 245
| high_school = [[Central Catholic High School (Perry Township, Ohio)|Central Catholic]] <br> ([[Canton, Ohio]])
| college     = [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]] (1964–1966)
| draftyear   = 1967
| draftround  = 1
| draftpick   = 15
| pastteams   = 
* [[Minnesota Vikings]] ({{NFL Year|1967|1978}})
* [[Chicago Bears]] ({{NFL Year|1978|1981}})
| highlights  = 
* [[List of NFL champions (1920–1969)|NFL champion]] ([[1969 NFL Championship Game|1969]])
* [[NFL Most Valuable Player]] (1971)
* 2× [[AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year|NFL Defensive Player of the Year]] (1971, 1973)
* 5× First-team [[All-Pro]] ([[1970 All-Pro Team|1970]], [[1971 All-Pro Team|1971]], [[1973 All-Pro Team|1973]]–[[1975 All-Pro Team|1975]])
* 3× Second-team All-Pro ([[1969 All-Pro Team|1969]], [[1972 All-Pro Team|1972]], [[1976 All-Pro Team|1976]])
* 9× [[Pro Bowl]] ([[1968 Pro Bowl|1968]]–[[1976 Pro Bowl|1976]])
* [[NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team]]
* [[NFL 1970s All-Decade Team]]
* 50 Greatest Vikings
* Minnesota Vikings 25th Anniversary Team
* Minnesota Vikings 40th Anniversary Team
* [[Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor]]
* [[Minnesota Vikings#Retired numbers|Minnesota Vikings No. 88]] retired
* 2× [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|National champion]] ([[1964 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|1964]], [[1966 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|1966]])
* Consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1966 College Football All-America Team|1966]])
; NFL record
* Most safeties in a season: 2 (tied)
| statlabel1  = [[Quarterback sack|Sacks]]
| statvalue1   = 148.5
| statlabel2   = [[Safety (gridiron football score)|Safeties]]
| statvalue2  = 3
| statlabel3   = [[Interception]]s
| statvalue3   = 2
| statlabel4  = Interception yards
| statvalue4  = 42
| statlabel5  = [[Fumble]] recoveries
| statvalue5  = 23
| statlabel6  = [[Touchdown]]s
| statvalue6  = 3
| pfr         = P/PageAl00
| HOF         = Alan-Page
| CollegeHOF  = 1860 
}}
| education           = [[University of Notre Dame]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) <br> [[University of Minnesota]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
}}

'''Alan Cedric Page''' (born August 7, 1945) is an American former [[Minnesota Supreme Court]] [[judge]] and professional [[American football|football]] player for the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears. He was the NFL's MVP in 1971.<ref name=apieaz>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WqpfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3339%2C4146465 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |last=Litke |first=James |agency=Associated Press |title=Alan Page: leaving 23 years behind isn't easy |date=November 25, 1981 |page=1C}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 2018.

Playing [[college football]] at the [[University of Notre Dame]], Page gained national recognition as a [[defensive tackle]] in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) during 15 seasons with the [[Minnesota Vikings]] and [[Chicago Bears]]. Following his retirement, he then embarked on a legal career. Page earned a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in political science from the [[University of Notre Dame]] in 1967 and a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]] from the [[University of Minnesota Law School]] in 1978. Page served as an associate justice of the [[Minnesota Supreme Court]] from 1993 until he reached the court's mandatory retirement age of 70 in 2015.

Page was the first defensive player in NFL history to win the [[National Football League Most Valuable Player Award|MVP Award]] and only [[Lawrence Taylor]] has done it since. He is a member of both the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] (1993) and the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (1988), and is considered one of the greatest [[Lineman (American football)|defensive linemen]] ever to play the game.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wallstcheatsheet.com/sports/the-top-10-greatest-nfl-defensive-linemen-of-all-%C2%ADtime.html/?a=viewall |title=Wall Street Cheat Sheet, "The Greatest Defensive Linemen of All Time." |access-date=January 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130014902/http://wallstcheatsheet.com/sports/the-top-10-greatest-nfl-defensive-linemen-of-all-%C2%ADtime.html/?a=viewall |archive-date=January 30, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2018, President [[Donald Trump]] awarded Page the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/11/14/medal-freedom-honoree-alan-page-will-put-aside-his-feelings-about-trump/|title=Medal of Freedom honoree Alan Page will put aside his feelings about Trump|last=Boren|first=Cindy|date=November 16, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>