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Show "Brick" Muller a Star Performer on Gridiron One of the greatest of the greats, athletically speaking, ever turned out along the Pacific slope was "Brick" Muller of California. Muller was an all-round athlete, par excellence. A star football performer, the big fellow could also hold his own with the best in track and on the diamond. dia-mond. Muller, as you probably know, gained his most fame as a gridder playing end. He was good on both : offense and defense. But bis forte was throwing passes. Endowed with an extremely large pair of hands, which permitted him to obtain an unusual grip on the ball, he could hurl with speed and accuracy. accu-racy. In a word, Muller was one of the greatest passers football las produced. pro-duced. In the famous intersectional game with Ohio State, New Year's day, 1921, ! Muller's passing was one of his outstanding out-standing features. His aerial work played a prominent part in sending the middle westerners back home with a stinging 28-to-0 defeat as a reminder of their jaunt to the coast. N Ohio, it will be recalled, won the Big Ten championship the preceding fall with one of the best teams that institution ever put on the field. It was in that brush that Muller tossed one pass that traveled from deep California territory into the waiting wait-ing arms of a Californian, perched almost on the goal line. Out in the West they still talk about that heave whenever football Is the topic. |