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This is the twelfth 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 1935-1939.


Jim Crowley, one of Notre Dame’s Four Horsemen, told stories of a 1922 game in which the Hail Mary play first appeared. However, the term was first used contemporaneously with the 1935 Notre Dame-Ohio State game. The season also saw the awarding of the first Heisman Trophy to Jay Berwanger, an all-around player at Chicago.

(Brondfield & Beck, '100 Years Of Football,' News-Item (Shamokin, PA), December 1, 1969.)

After coaching at three other schools, including taking Tulane to the Rose Bowl, Bernie Bierman returned to his alma mater, Minnesota. He had a decade of great teams, winning five national championships, including five in a row, in a run that compares with the best by any coach of any era.

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