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Red Grange
Greatest half-back in the world is Grange,Play boy of the middle west.To him came high adventure, romantic, strange,Tho flamboyant fame was not his quest.
Modest youth,—slim, with auburn hair,Students, unheeding, passed him by.In training under Zuppke's watchful care,Industrious, quiet, earnest and shy.
Marvelous runs on the foot-ball field soon broughtVarsity recognition and praise;A hero-worship and adulation unsoughtFrom flappers for whom Red was the craze.
Stadium crowds uprose with ringing cheersWhen seventy-seven with the ballSped for the goal and dissipated fearsThat come, however successful, to all.