The Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch Award is presented annually to the state's top senior running back as part of the WSN Senior Football Awards. The award is named after former Wausau High School athlete Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, who went on to play for the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan before starring at end in the NFL for 12 seasons. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the National High School Hall of Fame, and later went on to serve as Wisconsin's athletic director from 1969 to 1987.
The pre-season list will be trimmed down to about 25 semi-finalists halfway through the year, with five finalists chosen at the start of the playoffs. Winners are announced the week of the state finals.
First Name | Last Name | School |
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Christian | Almonte | Menomonee Falls |
Kyle | Becker | Pardeeville |
Jacob | Biesterveld | Durand |
Garrett | Bollant | Lodi |
Evan | Bondoc | Madison Edgewood |
Bailey | Breunig | Sauk Prairie |
Jameson | Brock | Wauwatosa West |
Wyatt | Brown | D.C. Everest |
Tom | Bruckner | Lakeland |
Ryan | Buske | Bloomer |
Nick | Chafer | Bruce |
Tyler | Chaloupka | Oostburg |
Jim | Chenoweth | New Glarus/Monticello |
John | Clark | Catholic Memorial |
William | Cooley | Platteville |
Tyler | Coutier | Fort Atkinson |
Aaron | Dietmeier | Webster |
Saquan | Dowery | Milwaukee King |
Kole | Dubiel | Whitehall |
Alec | Duffy | Hayward |
Ryan | Duxbury | Wisconsin Rapids |
Keegan | Eide | Blair-Taylor |
Jordan | Eikamp | Cochrane-Fountain City |
Jared | Emery | Siren |
Brandon | Ennis | Baraboo |
Aaron | Faacks | Eeau Claire Memorial |
Aaron | Field | Kiel |
Devan | Finney | West Allis Central |
Aaron | Fischer | Sun Prairie |
Ben | Fischer | Crivitz |
Joey | Flowerette | Stevens Point |
Ike | Floyd | Saint Mary's Springs |
Marty | Franzkowiak | Port Washington |
Jake | Gorzek | Green Bay Southwest |
Demario | Harris | Brookfield Central |
James | Hoffman | Clayton |
Nate | Houtakker | Shullsburg |
Keiron | Howlett | Marshfield |
JJ | Hundt | Bangor |
Terry | Island | Morse-Marshall |
Dan | Jacques | Menomonie |
Ty | Jager | Arrowhead |
Kyle | Jahnke | Markesan |
Connor | Johnson | Rhinelander |
Ethan | Just | Manitowoc Lincoln |
Dexter | Karban | Coleman |
Dillon | Kempen | Suring |
Rasheed | Kilpatrick | Washington |
Tarail | King | Racine St. Catherine's |
Erik | Klemme | Sheboygan Falls |
Alex | Klug | Merrill |
Brett | Knoebel | Palmyra Eagle |
Alec | Kocour | Catholic Memorial |
Sam | Koss | Algoma |
Ryan | Kudek | Fox Valley Lutheran |
Alex | Lasinski | Hortonville |
Greg | Lewis | Wauwatosa West |
Patrick | Lown | DeSoto |
Sean | Madden | Racine St. Catherine's |
Dillon | Martinez | Holmen |
Brett | Merrit | Nekoosa |
Blake | Miller | New Auburn |
Grant | Murray | Crandon |
Zach | Nyhus | Cumberland |
Zane | Parker | Kickapoo/LaFarge |
Drew | Patterson | Sussex Hamilton |
J.P. | Peerenboom | Kimberly |
Nathan | Peters | Freedom |
Isaiah | Pitchford | Waukesha South |
Joe | Rademacher | Saint Croix Falls |
Jack | Radlinger | River Valley |
Jacob | Reiter | Clintonville |
Leon | Reyes | Racine Horlick |
Dan | Rothbauer | Appleton North |
Peter | Roy | Muskego |
Taylor | Schaefer | Oakfield |
Max | Sebranek | Hillsboro |
Nick | Siegel | Menasha |
Kewaun | Smith | Morse-Marshall |
Ryan | Stepanovich | Pewaukee |
Derrick | Stephen | Oak Creek |
Tanner | Sweeney | Black Hawk |
Nick | Taylor | New Berlin Eisenhower |
Ben | Thornton | La Crosse Central |
Alec | Treuthardt | Pecatonica-Argyle |
Isaac | Tuttle | Glenwood City |
Jacob | Van Asten | Shiocton |
Eric | Van Vleet | Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau |
Dai-Von | Vance-Jenkins | Janesville Parker |
Hudson | Walton | Cedarburg |
Greg | Wenzel | Cedar Grove-Belgium |
Cameron | Werner | Living Word Lutheran |
Nehemiah | Werner | Edgar |
Robert | Wettstein | Aquinas |
Dylan | Wiese | New Berlin West |
Colton | Winkelman | Port Edwards |
Logan | Yeagar | Dodgeville |
Jake | Zabrowski | Antigo |
Tyler | Zak | Little Chute |
Pre-season watch lists are compiled from all-conference teams, stats leaders, film evaluations, WSN Player Rankings, and coach input. Players do not have to be on the pre-season list to be considered for the semi-final or finals list.