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Posted on 07/17/2003 11:48:36 AM PDT by bedolido
WASHINGTON (July 16, 2003) -- Football season is fast approaching and gridiron heroes of the past will be honored on new postage stamps next month.
The 37-cent stamps recall the exploits of Walter Camp, Ernie Nevers, Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski and will be issued Aug. 8 at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind. They go on sale nationally Aug. 11.
All four men are members of the College Hall of Fame and Nevers, Grange and Nagurski are also enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
--Walter Camp is known as the father of American football. He helped shape the rules of the game, first playing as a student at Yale from 1876 to 1882 and later serving as coach at the school. Camp is credited with such innovations as the system of downs, the play from scrimmage, the restriction of eleven players per side and the position of quarterback.
--Harold "Red" Grange became famous as a halfback for the University of Illinois where he was a three-time All American in the 1920s. He played pro ball for the Chicago Bears.
--Ernest Alonzo Nevers starred at Stanford, playing in the 1925 Rose Bowl Game while recovering from two broken ankles. Wearing special braces he carried the ball 34 times and made four tackles. Nevers played professional football for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals.
--Bronislau Nagurski earned his nickname, "Bronko," as a child. He played tackle and fullback for the University of Minnesota from 1927 to 1929. Nagurski played multiple positions for the Chicago Bears from 1930 to 1937 and again in 1943. In 1933 he helped lead the Bears to victory in the NFL's first official championship game.
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I hope Walter Payton is added. In my opinion, the greatest all-around player in NFL history.
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You slay me (*sarcasm)... Too bad the man's a maniac. He was fun to watch in his prime.
Yeah. Kick ball. Get check.
Yup... Don't forget Johnny Unitus
True. They're not heros in the an armed forces sense, or New York policeman way. However, they put their bodies on the line to make me and millions of other fans happy.
Yes, but a few years ago no one would have thought twice about what kind of Orwellian heros we choose. Now, at least a few here and there wonder at the state of our culture. Perhaps a young, competent philosopher is preparing to emerge and show us what we have become and where we ought to be instead. In the footsteps of Marcuse, maybe. Or maybe we have earned shrill Hillary and we'll never achieve our true human destiny.
Soooo true.
Nicknames don't count, or else we'd be talking about Jumbo Elliot and Refrigerator Perry.
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