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#16. Nice to hear that Jim Brown was a class act, not a clown act. Reminds me of Jesse Owens when I got an award from him a long time ago. A very humble man and proud American.

Glad to see that the “old folk” still have class while the “youngins are just crass”.

From Manhasset, Long Island, as I recall. I left Syracuse before graduating and later matriculated at Alfred University. There I found that Jim had interviewed there and for some reason was turned down.

At Syracuse, Jim was a four-letter athlete not only in football, but in track (he was fast) and basketball as well. But his best sport of skilled performance was not football; it was lacrosse, in which his performance was stunning.

I was told the story that when his track team came to Alfred (that upstate farm-boy Saxon team was famous, especially in cross-country). Those Alfred boys ragged him so hard that hr picked up a javelin and winged it almost the length of the gridiron, where it finally wound up stuck in the outer wall of the field house.

The boys were pretty silent after that. so I heard.