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Bruce Smith's jersey number (54) was the first to be retired by the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, in 1977.
Yes. It was retired before the last game of the regular season against Georgia Tech.
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the number "99" is retired in the NHL. the number "99" is retired in the NHL.
Unless a current player already wearing the number; if a number is retired by the franchise, no player in that franchise can wear that jersey number and if the jersey number is retired by the league no one can wear that number again in the league. for example, no one in MLB can wear 42 because of Jackie Robinson except Mariano Rivera because he already wore the number before it was retired.
Cam Neely
The Redskins have had hundreds of retired players. They only have one officially retired number, however, the Number 33 jersey of Sammy Baugh.
No one. It belonged to retired Hall of Famer Roger Staubach. While not technically retired, (the cowboys do not retire #'s), no one would probably wear it out of respect.
Ernie Banks had his Number 14 retired by Cubs in 1982.
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John David Booty for the Vikings had #4 before Brett went to MN.