Today's Tidbit... Backing Both Blues

Tommy McCall had an unusual academic and football career at Kansas. He played freshman football at Kansas in 1927, left for two years, and returned to play on the Jayhawks' 1930 Big Six championship team. 

A 1935 article used McCall’s 1930 photo when Kansas still wore friction strips on the jersey front in the form of a K. ('Burglars. Beware!' Great Falls Tribune, November 13, 1935.

Academic issues kept him off campus for the next three years. However, the eligibility standards of the time focused on enrolled years rather than elapsed years, so he was able to play football when he re-enrolled in 1934 and 1935. During the 1935 season, McCall was a full-time police officer in Lawrence.

Tommy McCall, as a senior, when Kansas started labeling their helmets. (1936 Kansas yearbook)

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