The ep49 Famous Football Coaches

This is Jimmy Powers ready to bring you another story from the tumult and the shouting. Once again, this is yours truly, Jimmy Powers. From his first exposure to football as a Vanderbilt University undergraduate in 1899,

Granny Rice never lost touch with the collegiate game. As the Grantlin Rice byline began to emerge around 1910, Granny's impact on the game was constructive. Later in the Golden Twenties, the Grantlin Rice All-America teams received national attention.

In fact, right up to and through his last All-American team in 1953, Granny's All-American selections were about as official as you can get. Well, Granny knew the players and you can bet he knew their coaches.

From Walter Camp, father of football at Yale, right on through the moderns of today, such as Armies Earl Blake and Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson, Granny knew them all. So with a warm salute to the every young spirit of Grantlin Rice, I take up his narrative in first person. Some remarkable broken-field runners have flashed across corn-belt football arenas, but the brightest bold of kinetic energy was

Harold Redgrange, the Illinois Meteor. Picture if you can, a tall greyhound of a boy, with hair the color of a sunset, the rhythm of a ballet dancer, and two speeds, fast and faster. Redgrange blazed through Michigan for five touchdowns one afternoon, and an When I rate Ann Arbor's zealot scoffed, all Grange can do is run.

Yes, retarded Bob Zuppke, the Illinois proud coach, and all Gallicirche can do is sing. Who can ever forget Grange's first Eastern appearance at Pennsylvania's Franklin Field in 1925? The Easterners had been fed up on the fabulous tales of the great Red Heads exploits, and they came prepared to be disillusioned.