Chal Daniel

{{Short description|American football player (1921–1943)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

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| name = Chal Daniel

| image = Chal Daniel.png

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| position = Guard

| birth_date = August 31, 1921

| birth_place = El Paso, Texas, U.S.

| death_date = February 13, 1943 (aged 21)

| death_place = Comal County, Texas, U.S.

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| college = Texas

| draftyear = 1942

| draftround = 6

| draftpick = 44

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| highlights =

• First-team All-American (1941)
• First-team All-SWC (1941)
• Second-team All-SWC (1940)

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Chal Newton Daniel, Jr. (August 31, 1921 – February 13, 1943) was an American football player.

Daniel was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1921. He moved with his family to Longview, Texas, in 1932. He was a member of Longview High School's championship football team in 1937.{{cite news|title=Lt. Chal Daniel, Former Lobo And Longhorn Grid Star, To Rest Here|newspaper=Longview News-Journal|date=February 18, 1943|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104838324/chal-daniel/|via=Newspapers.com}}

He played college football for the Texas Longhorns football team from 1939 to 1941.{{cite web|title=Chal Daniel|publisher=Pro Football Archives|accessdate=July 2, 2022|url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerd/dani00050.html}} He was selected by the International News Service, the Sporting News, and the Central Press Association as a first-team guard on the 1941 All-America football team.{{cite book|title=ESPN College Football Encyclopedia|page=1184|publisher=ESPN Books|year=2005|isbn=1401337031}}{{cite news|author=Walter L. Johnsc|title=Midwest, South Top Captains' All-Americas|newspaper=Reading Eagle|date=December 7, 1941|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YI8hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uJcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4839,1948324&dq=wildung+sinkwich&hl=en}}

Daniel was drafted by the Chicago Cardinals in the 1942 NFL draft but instead enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps in February 1942 after the United States' entry into World War II. In February 1943, he was killed in the crash of a Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer aircraft airplane eight miles north of New Braunfels, Texas.{{cite news|title=Chal Daniel Killed in Crash of Army Plane|newspaper=Associated Press|date=February 1943|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12741826}}