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Show i fW sy II " CMmANDj raof my favorite athletes for lliolie 20 years has been a fellow tame of Heartley Anderson tnown as Hunk. fopeorge Halas, former coach Jiier of the Chicago Bears, Jplvar service, 1 j one of the 1je4-coaches. p& for pound, I ft the tough-laical tough-laical speci-il've speci-il've ever fand that In-4 In-4 j Joe Louis rltrinaler Lew-kh Lew-kh guard un-"pite un-"pite Rockne, tiling 170 n Hunk made Grantland Rice l jjjders surren- ijj leave the field. They want-Ijprirt want-Ijprirt of Hunk, who, In addition li'.ing quickness and unusual jtt, always has had outstanding!, outstand-ing!, ting spirit. Jj9 the typa they might kill iter whip. Mnderson Angle i takes us back to the time if 1 tjme decided to try out field (jy A big squad had assent-it assent-it en Hunk appeared. His hi e scattered most of the if squad. "I you mean," one of them L that I'm to play In a game f ; h they are giving Hunk An-to An-to a stick? I don't want any l it." pi coach in the old days, Hunk j, ive been a better top ser-M ser-M an a general of the Rockne b it that still goes as a tribute, ei lainly never has had a su-f su-f as a line coach. as given the impossible Job e Dame of following Knute i , At the time this was an 5 ble assignment.- loughest Job Vi s toughest coaching job " t North Carolina State some f go. Hunk had assembled a Southern line and a Northern d' 1 ide one big mistake," Hunk i later. "I thought the Civil vrfts over. I soon found that tlit hern line was tackling and & my Northern backfield be-jRJgot be-jRJgot started. I'd just f orgot-jpibrush orgot-jpibrush up on my history. I Mred down South you couldn't ip( Stonewall Jacksons and Rob-. Rob-. 'Lees with U. S. Grants and at Tecumseh Shermans and p Eheridans." ! strong Man cult that football has ever pro- i fa stronger man than Eddie , , 'rinceton's old football cap-I cap-I iw installed as a major irf ! l ines. His strong man rival die Glass of Yale. The new Q is no kid. He was Prince-l Prince-l ader back in 1910 and 1911, I b played with a broken neck cl -'d by a special leather har- over 50, he Is still In fine ci 1 shape and still one of the -; st men I know. Something t ie manner of Fudge Heffel-vjwho Heffel-vjwho was still a football star a ad not so bad at 65 when he d a full period in a charity 1 Eddie Hart examples the 1 1' won a bet that three All-ic All-ic uns in the room couldn't h m over as he stood on one tl e day in Paris during the vaV when a 195-pound football a od from the second floor of i! hotel "I'm jumping, Eddie, i ie." Hart caught him. i i marines get a true marine in :art. ii Hart coached the Army il team that played in Paris ' a Armistice. Eddie Mahan that Army squad. "It was iis game," Hart told me, irshal Foch said, 'Any army 's this game is already well Eor war. It Is a game that to the strong and the fast hose who must think under It is the type of competi-rt competi-rt an army needs.' " j vency Bob Neyland remarked a v hile back that when you can earn up to 80 per cent ef-in ef-in blocking and tackling you 3out reached the summit of J expectancy, is true, with a few excep- r Cross passed 90 per cent tn pect against Boston College, ashington'a Redskins were o 100 per cent against the Bears. never seen a team that harder, blocked harder or der, going all out, than the is did against the Bears, had a record wound to cure d been festering for two 3 to 0, and you could see on Hy every play they meant ;t the cure. as full proof of what a foot-can foot-can do when it becomes ally aroused. ws the answer to many of : sn' upsets to the way Au- " about Georgia and Holy about Boston College. |