Tom Harmon, Old 98, died Thursday of a heart attack shortly after playing 18 holes of golf at the Bel-Air Country Club.

Harmon, 70, won a tournament with Dr. David Boska as his partner earlier in the day.

From the country club, Harmon drove to the Amelia Travel Agency in West Los Angeles, where he became ill.

He told employees there to call Dr. Boska at his office on San Vicente Boulevard because he was feeling ill, but he soon passed out and paramedics were called to the scene.

He was taken to UCLA Medical Center, which issued the following statement:

"Tom Harmon, age 70, died of cardiac arrest at 6:40 p.m. in the emergency room at UCLA Medical Center. He was brought to the emergency room at 6:08 p.m. by the paramedics in full cardiac arrest. After efforts of resuscitation, he was pronounced dead."

Harmon's son Mark, a motion picture and television star, said funeral arrangements are pending.

Bob Speck, a longtime friend, said Harmon went to the travel agency to pick up tickets for a trip to a celebrity golf tournament. Speck wasn't sure where the tournament takes place.

"I talked to Tom yesterday," Speck said, "and he was feeling fine."

Speck said Harmon had four birdies on the front nine Thursday.

Harmon suffered a heart attack a little more than two years ago at the age of 68, according to Speck.

Harmon, best known as a football star at the University of Michigan, won the Heisman Trophy in 1940.

Also in 1940, Harmon, a two-time All-American, was named the Associated Press athlete of the year and recipient of the Maxwell Award as the college football player of the year.

He was the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft of December, 1940. He was chosen by the Chicago Bears, who had the Philadelphia Eagles' first choice that year.

But he never played for the Bears, instead going with the New York Americans of a rival league.

During World War II, he served in the U.S. Air Force and was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.

Harmon survived bailouts from two destroyed planes.

He crashed in the South American jungle, en route to North Africa, and walked out six days later.

He also was shot down over the Yangtze River in China in a dogfight with a Zero, and was rescued 32 days later by a Chinese Patrol.

After World War II, he played for the Rams in 1946 and '47, but showed only flashes of his former greatness because his legs had been burned and injured in the war.