Neill Armstrong (1926-2016)
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Offensive End/Defensive Back—(Oklahoma A&M) Philadelphia Eagles 1947-51, Winnipeg Blue Bombers (CFL) 1951,1953-54; Coach—Edmonton Eskimos (CFL) 1964-69, Chicago Bears 1978-81
Bert Bell (1895-1959)
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Coach/Co-Founder/Owner—(Pennsylvania) Philadelphia Eagles 1933-40, Pittsburgh Steelers 1941-46; NFL Commissioner 1946-59 [Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963]
There were one or two instances, which you are going to have in any contact sport, and those were thrown out of proportion. The Ray Bray case was one of those and got a lot of publicity. In a preseason game with the Bears, Bray was wearing a face mask and I wasn't. After he hit me, he came down on me with that mask and split my nose open. I was on the ground and couldn't do much, so I kicked him in the balls. Bert Bell fined me $250 and my wife gave him hell. She told him that he had cost her a new coat, so Bert said if I behaved myself and didn't get thrown out of any more games he'd give me the money back. I didn't get into any real trouble the rest of the season, and after the last game Bert gave me a check and made me endorse it over to my wife. The joke was that Bert made a mistake and the check was for $500. When she called Bert and told him about it, he said, "Boy, am I lucky. If Bucko had gotten his hands on that money, I would have never seen the other $250."
Bucko Kilroy
Bucko Kilroy
This note came from the Bert Bell estate. The Pennsylvania collector I obtained it from acquired it in about 2006. He was a Steelers collector and had several Bert Bell items so he deemed this note expendable. He was most interested in getting a Chuck Cherundolo signature that I had to help complete a Steeler Legends photo. So in January 2010 I sent him the Cherundolo and cut signatures of four other Steelers including Darrell Hogan, Don Looney, Rocco Pirro, Joe Krupa, and John Yurchey. The note says, "Is your Pef wonderful $580 in your Acc, Love & kisses, Pef." Pef is what his wife, Frances, called him. The collector wrote me that the handwriting compares very favorably to the signed checks that he had in his collection. He believed this note was 100% authentic.
Paul Brown (1908-1991)
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Coach—(Miami, Ohio) Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets 1944-45, Cleveland Browns 1946-62, Cincinnati Bengals 1968-75 [AAFC Coach of the Year 1947-49, NFL Coach of the Year 1951,1953-54,1957, AFL Coach of the Year 1969, AFC Coach of the Year 1970, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1967]
The reason we had such a good team [Cleveland Browns] was because we had a great coach in Paul Brown. He was the type of guy who would have been an admiral or general if he went into the service or the president of a company in the business world . . . Every year he would get up in front of us at training camp and dictate to us the rules. Nothing was left to chance, he was so organized. How to do calisthenics, how to run, how to put one foot in front of the other—it was amazing. He also had what he called the "Tuesday Rule." He felt sex was bad for a guy before a game, so he would lecture the married guys that they should abstain after Tuesday. It used to irritate me and we kid him about it today that he would only talk to the married guys, not the ones who were single. I think only .0000001 percent of the players—if that—ever observed the rule . . . .I personally think he is probably the finest football coach that ever coached the game . . . .Paul Brown was a silent type. He would just kind of look at you with those cold eyes of his and they would go right through you.
Otto Graham
Otto Graham
Bobby Dodd (1908-1988)
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Quarterback/Tailback/Punter—(Tennessee) Coach—Georgia Tech 1945-66 [All-Southern Team 1929-30; College Football Hall of Fame 1959/1993]
Robert Lee "Bobby" Dodd was a winner all the way. In high school in Kingsport, Tennessee, he starred in football, basketball and baseball. He tried tennis and won the city championship. He took up contract bridge; he and his partner won the city tournament. Dodd enrolled at Tennessee and was the Vols' quarterback 1928-30. Tennessee went 27-1-2 in that time and this slogan became popular: "In Dodd We Trust." He won game after game with a spectacular run, pass or kick. The 1930 Vanderbilt game was typical. The play started at the Tennessee 21-yard line. Dodd, back to pass, was trapped and retreated behind the goal line. He dodged tacklers, looking for a receiver, and finally found Buddy Hackman. Dodd passed to him, and Hackman ran for a touchdown. Grantland Rice named him 1930 All-America. Edwin Camp, Atlanta Journal, called him "the greatest football player ever developed in the South." Dodd became a dynamic football coach. He led Georgia Tech to a 165-64-8 record in 22 years, 1945-66. His team went 31 straight games without a loss. Dodd won eight straight bowl games. He was born November 11, 1908, and died June 21, 1988. He served Georgia Tech 57 years as assistant coach, head coach, athletic director, and fund raiser. He was elected to the Hall of Fame as a player in 1959, and as a coach in 1993.
Aldo "Buff" Donelli (1907-1994)
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Halfback/Punter—(Duquesne) Coach—Duquesne 1939-42, Pittsburgh Steelers 1941, Cleveland Rams 1944, Boston University 1947-56, Columbia University 1957-67 [National Soccer Hall of Fame 1954]
Forest Evashevski (1918-2009)
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Blocking Back—(Michigan) Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks 1942; Coach — Washington State 1950-51, Iowa 1952-60 [College Football Hall of Fame 2000]
A big egotistical blond who had this enormously low voice that used to scare the hell out of people. He always told you first thing that he was the blocking back in the Michigan backfield who'd made Tom Harmon great. That always got into the first or second minute of conversation, whether he was talking to a thirteen-year-old kid or a grandmother in her nineties. You'd see these people getting puzzled as they listened to him, like he was talking in some weird code. They probably didn't know who Harmon was—or what a blocking back was, for that matter. His ego came on especially strong on the day of the games, when he dressed up in a long tan coat with a fur collar. The team would spend its last hours before a game lying on mattresses in a sort of ballroom at the local motel, looking up at the ceiling and getting psyched up for the game, and then Evashevski would make this tremendous entrance, striding through the double doors with his tan coat and fur collar and that voice that sounded like the bottom notes on an organ.
Alex Karras
Alex Karras
Don Faurot (1902-1995)
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Fullback—(Missouri) Coach—Northeast Missouri State Teachers College 1926-34, Missouri 1935-42,1945-67, Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks 1943, Jacksonville Naval Air Station Fliers 1944 [College Football Hall of Fame 1961]
In 1941, I had lost my star passer, Paul Christman. I had two fast halfbacks, Harry Ice and Bob Steuber. I had seen the Chicago Bear T-formation, and I was taken with the short pitchout. So I started from there. I figured that by setting the quarterback in motion for a wider pitchout to our fast backs, we could get them away better than from the single wing or straight T. The split T had every element of deception and all the machinery for power runs and surprise runs or passes.
Don Faurot
Don Faurot
Ray Flaherty (1904-1994)
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Offensive End/Defensive End—(Gonzaga) Los Angeles Wildcats (AFL) 1926, New York Yankees 1927-28, New York Giants 1928-29,1931-35; Coach—Boston Redskins 1936, Washington Redskins 1937-42, New York Yankees 1946-48, Chicago Hornets (AAFC) 1949 [#1 Receiving 1932, All-Pro 1928-29,1932, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1976]
[George Preston] Marshall hired Ray Flaherty, who had been a great player with the New York Giants and was familiar with Marshall's egocentricities. He had it put in his contract that Marshall would stay off the field. So Marshall had to go upstairs, but he had extensive telephone lines all over the place. He would phone the band and the bench and everything else. Flaherty had a man on the bench who would take Marshall's phone calls, but Flaherty would ignore everything Marshall said. We had our first winning season [1936]—won seven, lost five.
Cliff Battles
Cliff Battles
Sid Gillman (1911-2003)
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End—(Ohio State) Cleveland Rams (AFL) 1936; Coach—Miami (Ohio) 1944-47, University of Cincinnati 1949-54, Los Angeles Rams 1955-59, Los Angeles Chargers 1960, San Diego Chargers 1961-69,1971, Houston Oilers 1973-74 [College Football Hall of Fame 1989, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1983]
Football was a game of chess to Gillman. He started with linemen as the pawns. Guards, for instance, could do any one of 25 different things. Taking in all the positions, he taught us 15,960 plays in two weeks of practice with the Rams.
Bill Wade
Bill Wade
Harry Gilmer (1926-2016)
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Quarterback/Halfback/Defensive Back—(Alabama) Washington Redskins 1948-54, Detroit Lions 1955-56; Coach—Detroit Lions 1965-66 [All-American 1945, College Football Hall of Fame 1993]
Bill "Biff" Glassford (1914-2016)
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Guard—(Pittsburgh) Cincinnati Bengals (AFL) 1937; Coach—New Hampshire 1946-48, Nebraska 1949-55
Howard “Red” Hickey (1917-2006)
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Offensive End/Defensive End—(Arkansas) Pittsburgh Steelers 1941, Cleveland Rams 1941,1945, Los Angeles Rams 1946-48; Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets 1942, Bainbridge Naval Training Station Commodores 1943; Coach—San Francisco 49ers 1959-63
I'm an old country boy, and I used to go hunting with a shotgun. [I said,] "How about we call it the shotgun?"
Red Hickey, on naming the shotgun formation
Red Hickey, on naming the shotgun formation
Jess Hill (1907-1993)
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Fullback—(USC, 1928-29) Coach—USC 1951-56 [played Major League Baseball 1935-37, USC Athletic Hall of Fame 1995]
Paul "Tony" Hinkle (1899-1992)
End—(Chicago, 1918-21) Coach—Butler 1926,1935-41,1946-69, Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets 1942-43 [Basketball Hall of Fame 1965, Indiana Football Hall of Fame 1974]
Jim Lee Howell (1914-1995)
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Offensive End/Defensive End—(Arkansas) New York Giants 1937-42,1946-47; Coach—Wagner College 1947-53, New York Giants 1954-60
Bill “Tiger” Johnson (1926-2011)
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Center/Linebacker—(Tyler Texas JC) Akron Bears (AFL) 1946, San Francisco 49ers (AAFC/NFL) 1948-56; Coach—Cincinnati Bengals 1976-78
Harvey Johnson (1919-1983)
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Linebacker/Blocking Back/Fullback/Guard—(William & Mary) New York Yankees (AAFC) 1946-49, New York Yanks 1951; Coach—Buffalo Bills 1968, 1971
Pearce Johnson (1899-1996)
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Assistant General Manager—Providence Steam Roller 1925-31 [Minor Pro Football Hall of Fame 1989]
Joe Kuharich (1917-1981)
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Guard/Linebacker—(Notre Dame) Chicago Cardinals 1940-41,1945; Coach—San Francisco Dons (Independent) 1948-51, Chicago Cardinals 1952, Washington Redskins 1954-58, Notre Dame 1959-62, Philadelphia Eagles 1964-68
John North (1921-2010)
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Offensive End/Defensive Back—(Vanderbilt) Baltimore Colts (AAFC/NFL) 1948-50; Coach—New Orleans Saints 1973-75
Bennie Oosterbaan (1906-1990)
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End—(Michigan) Coach—Michigan 1948-58 (Football), Michigan 1938-48 (Basketball) [All-American 1925-27, College Football Hall of Fame 1954; All-American (Basketball) 1926-27]
Oosterbaan was not the precise type of teacher that [Fritz] Crisler was. And Crisler had better psychology for knowing the players. But Oosterbaan, I would give him substantial credit for the complicated plays we had.
Lloyd Heneveld
Lloyd Heneveld
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Benjamin G. "Bennie" Oosterbaan was born February 24, 1906, in Muskegon, Michigan. He became a freshman at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1924, and that was his hometown the rest of his life. He died October 25, 1990, at age 84. He was at the university as a student, as assistant football coach 1928-47, head basketball coach 1938-46, head football coach 1948-58, and director of alumni relations 1959-72. As football player, he was All-America end three times 1925-27, captain and Most Valuable Player in 1927. The Football Writers Association named him to its all-time All- America modern team in 1974. In 1925 he led all Big 10 football players in scoring; he had eight touchdowns. In 1926 his 60-yard run with a recovered fumble helped Michigan to a 7-6 victory over Minnesota. He lettered three years in basketball and in 1928 led the Big Ten in scoring with 129 points in 12 games. He lettered three years in baseball and in 1928, led the Big Ten in batting. In 1928, he received Michigan's Big Ten medal, awarded annually for excellence in scholarship and athletics. His record as head football coach was 63-33-4. His 1948 team was undefeated national champion, and he was named Coach of the Year.
Ara Parseghian (1923-2017)
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Halfback/Defensive Back—(Akron/Miami, Ohio) Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets 1944, Cleveland Browns (AAFC) 1946-48; Coach—Miami (OH) 1951-55, Northwestern 1956-63, Notre Dame 1964-74 [AFCA Coach of the Year 1964, Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year 1964, Sporting News Coach of the Year 1966, Amos Alonzo Stagg Award 1997, College Football Hall of Fame 1980]
Hamp Pool (1915-2000)
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Offensive End/Defensive End—(Stanford) Chicago Bears 1940-43, Fort Pierce Naval Amphibious Training Base Commandos 1944 (Player-Coach), Fort Pierce Naval Amphibious Training Base Amphibs 1945 (Player-Coach), Miami Seahawks (AAFC) 1946; Coach—Chicago Rockets (AAFC) 1947, Los Angeles Rams 1952-54 [Coach of the Year 1952]
Pool was the guy who worked his butt off and handled the offense and defense. Hamp was a gung-ho winner whom you could learn to detest as you won the world championship. He is the greatest guy in the world on a social occasion, witty, gentle, vivid conversationalist. But when the football season is on he doesn’t want to be bothered by anybody or anything until he’s won the title.
Don Paul
Don Paul
Bill Potter (1919-2001)
Coach—(Pomona College) 1942 [National College Tennis Coach of the Year 1975, College Tennis Hall of Fame 1985]
I only spent six months at Lincoln [Nebraska Army Air Base] in 1942 when the base was very new. They did not have a football team at that time.
Bill Potter, note to Mel Bashore
Bill Potter, note to Mel Bashore
My father, Lee Bashore, went to school, college, and played trombone in Potter's dance band.
Garrard "Buster" Ramsey (1920-2007)
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Offensive Guard/Linebacker—(William & Mary) Bainbridge Naval Training Station Commodores 1943-44, Pearl Harbor Pacific All-Stars 1945; Chicago Cardinals 1946-51; Coach—Buffalo Bills 1960-61 [All-American 1942, All-Service Team 1943, College Football Hall of Fame 1978, All Pro 1947-49]
Buster Ramsey was our line coach [Detroit Lions], and he was another one from the old school. He had been a tough football player in his time; he played guard with the Chicago Cardinals and was an excellent coach. He liked people to hit, and at that time Doak Walker played for us. He was our big point getter. He did everything—he scored touchdowns and kicked field goals and extra points, but Ramsey used to get furious because Walker wouldn’t try to block some 240- or 250-pound lineman. Walker weighed 165 pounds, and he might block somebody if he had the angle on him, but he wasn’t about to pit himself against some monster who weighed seventy-five pounds more than he did. Buster would get mad and start yelling. “Doak, come on. Knock somebody down.”
Millard Kelley
Millard Kelley
Lou “The Battler” Rymkus (1919-1998)
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Tackle—(Notre Dame) Washington Redskins 1943, Bainbridge Naval Training Station Commodores 1944, Cleveland Browns 1946-51; Coach—Houston Oilers 1960
Lou Rymkus, an offensive tackle for Cleveland, is another I always considered outstanding—I used to go toe-to-toe with him.
Arnie Weinmeister
Arnie Weinmeister
Lou Saban (1921-2009)
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Linebacker/Fullback—(Indiana) Fort Benning Fourth Infantry Raiders 1944; Cleveland Browns (AAFC) 1946-49; Coach—Buffalo Bills 1962-65,1972-76 [AFL Coach of the Year 1964-65]
Half a loaf is better than none.
Lou Saban, after settling for a tie
Lou Saban, after settling for a tie
Ben Schwartzwalder (1909-1993)
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Coach—(West Virginia) 1933, Muhlenberg 1946-48, Syracuse 1949-73 [College Football Coach of the Year 1959, College Football Hall of Fame 1982]
I came to like the man almost immediately. An ex-watchcharm lineman from West Virginia, he was short and stocky and wore glasses and had a fuzz of gray hair atop his round little owl-like head. Altogether, he looked like a grumpy museum guard. He had been a Silver Star paratrooper in the Normandy invasion, and it was said of him that he was so cool that he dozed off crossing the English Channel. He was tough and sarcastic, but seemed fair. He taught sledgehammer football and was a bug on conditioning . . . .In retrospect, Ben wasn't a bad guy. He was just Schwartzwalder. The head coach.
Jim Brown
Jim Brown
Allie Sherman (1923-2015)
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Quarterback/Defensive Back—(Brooklyn College) Phil-Pitt Steagles 1943, Philadelphia Eagles 1944-47, Paterson Panthers (AFL) 1948; Coach—Winnipeg Blue Bombers (CFL) 1953-56, New York Giants 1961-68
Nick Skorich (1921-2004)
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Guard/Linebacker—(Cincinnati) Pittsburgh Steelers 1946-48; Coach—Philadelphia Eagles 1961-63, Cleveland Browns 1971-74
When I showed up in the Steelers' camp [in 1946], they had 110 players, and back then they kept 33 or 34 during the season. Players were coming and going every day. At that time they found the answers by scrimmage, scrimmage, scrimmage. The first day of practice we were lined up and there were eighteen pairs of guards. They were going to carry four guards on the team . . . .[Jock] Sutherland called everyone together and said, "Gentlemen, we have a big problem. We have nine players too many, and that issue has to be decided today. Put your hats on and get to work." We scrimmaged for three hours and I always tell the story that I spilled more blood in that scrimmage than I did during the entire Second World War. Fortunately I managed to make it and stayed for three years.
Nick Skorich
Nick Skorich
Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965)
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Coach—(Yale) University of Chicago 1892-1932, College of the Pacific 1933-46 [All-American 1889, AFCA Coach of the Year 1943, College Football Hall of Fame 1951, Basketball Hall of Fame 1959]
Amos Alonzo Stagg is a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame, elected as both player and coach in 1951. He was born August 16, 1862, in West Orange, N.J., and enrolled at Yale as a divinity student. He played five seasons for the Bulldogs and took up football as a sport secondary to baseball. He was an accomplished pitcher receiving offers to play professionally as he led Yale to five championships. He saw little action in his first two seasons, but in 1888 Stagg was a regular on one of the greatest teams of all time. That year Yale won 13 games, out-scoring the opposition 698-0. Besides Stagg, the team featured three other Hall of Fame members, William Corbin, Pudge Heffelfinger and George Woodruff. Entering his final collegiate game against Princeton in 1889, Yale had won 37 consecutive games. In the second half of a scoreless game, Stagg prevented a touchdown by tackling Hall of Famer "Snake" Ames deep in Yale territory. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, Princeton later pushed across two scores to defeat Yale 10-0. For his career, Stagg and his teammates posted a 53-2-1 record, and he was chosen a member of the first All-America team in 1889. After his playing career he went on to coach for 54 seasons, winning 314 games at Springfield College, University of Chicago and the College of the Pacific. He invented the batting cage for baseball and the trough for overflow in swimming pools. Stagg died March 17, 1965, at age 102 in Stockton, Calif.
Chuck Taylor (1920-1994)
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Guard—(Stanford) Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base Amphibs 1945, Miami Seahawks 1946; Coach—Stanford 1951-57 [All-American 1942, College Football Hall of Fame 1984; College Football Coach of the Year 1951]
Men, we've come a long way this year [1951]. We've won some games, and this is the big one. I think we'll win. But I want you to remember this. I really don't care if you win or lose, if you play hard and have fun — because the game of football is not worth playing if you don't have fun.
Chuck Taylor, to his team before the 1952 Rose Bowl game — Stanford lost to Illinois 40-7
Chuck Taylor, to his team before the 1952 Rose Bowl game — Stanford lost to Illinois 40-7
Dick Todd (1914-1999)
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Defensive Back/Halfback/Wingback/Fullback—(Texas A&M) Iowa Pre-flight Seahawks 1943; Washington Redskins 1939-42,1945-48; Coach--Washington Redskins 1951 [Service All-American 1943]
He was an excellent coach, but he was very short-tempered and couldn't get along with George Marshall.
Jim Ricca
Jim Ricca
Johnny "Harpo" Vaught (1909-2006)
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Guard—(TCU) Coach—Mississippi 1947-70 [All-American 1932, College Football Hall of Fame 1979]
I was sort of drug into it [coaching]. When I got out of high school, it was 1932, the Great Depression, and there wasn't much opportunity.
John Howard Vaught
John Howard Vaught
Bud Wilkinson (1915-1994)
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Coach—(Minnesota) Oklahoma 1947-64; St. Louis Cardinals 1978-79 [all time NCAA leader in consecutive wins (47, 1953-57), College Coach of the Year 1949, College Football Hall of Fame 1969]
Anybody can play offense but it takes a man to play defense.
Bud Wilkinson
Bud Wilkinson
Warren B. Woodson (1903-1998)
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Coach—(Baylor) Texarkana J.C. 1927-34, Arkansas State Teacher's College 1935-40, Hardin-Simmons 1941-42,1946-51, Arizona 1952-56, New Mexico State 1958-67, Trinity College 1972-73, New Mexico Highlands [College Football Hall of Fame 1989]
He had been very successful over the years.
Ed Sprinkle
Ed Sprinkle