Morton Downey

C-O-L-G-A-P-E, all-game present the thing! Sport, newsreel! This, but bringing you the three-and-seventy-fifth edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel, featuring strains and fantastic stories. Some legends, some hearsay, but also interesting, we'd like to pass them along to you.

Our guest tonight is the famous singing star, Morton Downey, but before we bring you Morton Downey, in person, let's begin with... Real one! Portrait of a man to remember. This is the story of a man to remember. He's dead now, but...

As long as stories are told, his story will live on to inspire athletes the world over. There's a little use in your trying to guess his name. I don't think you can. Supposing you just sit back and listen to the story and see how much of it you already know.

Like most men, his childhood was destined to shape his manhood. For as a young boy he loved sports, he loved tennis golf, wrestling, racing. He loved to ride horseback. Sometimes he rode as much as a hundred miles a day.

I wish I could say he loved all sports, but he didn't. He hated the game of football. He thought that football was brutal, that it was a waste of time, and yet curiously enough, it was this very man in 1905 who saved the game of football, for football at year had killed 32 youngsters.

And from one end of this nation to the other, there arose a great hue and cry to do away with a game of football. The churches of America banded together to stop this game. States began to pass laws to make football illegal.

seemed that everybody was against football, and yet this one man, this one man, who paid a letter that became famous, a letter that reportedly read. Yesterday, a mother came to see me. Her boy, the son's wish, that if the rules of football were changed, there wouldn't be any more deaths. Therefore, I say, if this woman who has suffered such a tragic loss