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This is the ninth in a series looking back at “100 Years of Football,” syndicated cartoons published by Jerry Brondfield and Charles Beck in 1969. Today's version covers the period from 1923-1926.


We open this week’s review overlapping the previous week’s timeline due to Red Grange’s varsity career at Illinois overlapping the two.

(Brondfield & Beck, '100 Years Of Football,' Rushville Republican (IN), November 10, 1969.)

The Galloping Ghost was a magical runner whose ability to elude rather than outrun tacklers made him great. After joining the Bears and while on their first trip to Washington, D.C., an Illinois senator introduced George Halas and Grange to President Coolidge as “with the Chicago Bears.” Coolidge responded that it was nice to meet them since he “had always enjoyed animal acts.”

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