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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.

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