Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
RED GRANGE is
FOOTBALL STAR
RECORD SHOWS A GRAND AVER
AGE OF 10 YARD GAIN EVERY
TIME GIVEN THE BALL
BY Robert Fuller

This is story three weeks overdue.
Assigned to your reporter as a posi-
bic interesting feature for your pe1us.
al it fell by the wayside, the only
abb being that his judgment as to
news values was governed by a like
thought OF some few million of his
Fellow countrymen-th Mr.. Grange,
Wheaton, ILL.,, iceman >was not the
football player the pop-eyed rooters
of Illinois had been claiming he was.
The evidence was in-and complete
in all detail. The famous "redhead"
had been smeared and smeared and
smeaGed in every start. Red"
Oranges style had been solved. He
was through. He was bust etc, etc,
etc.
But Red Oranges hour was com.
ing Therefore this confession-w which
we might pause to mention, is not
lonesome because every great sport
authority in the big East is now dof,
fling a hat to Grange frankly and
Fundamentally admitting that he is
the greatest football player of the age
AS the whole nation now knows
Grange is Coach Bob Zupke's back
field ace ON the University of Illinois
football team And it was at Philadel-
phia against the undefeated Penn
team, conquerors of Yale, that Red"
Grange was asked to do his stuff-It
was his first eastern appearance.
With $4,000 rooters (mostly criticsl
looking on.
TO make long story short Red"
Grange was asked to carry the bali
just SO times in that hour of play He
toted it exactly 1886 yards-for a nice
fat average Of 10 yard gain every
time the ball was handed to him. One
Sc yard run and 3 touchdowns were
included in that giving
his team a "a to 2 victory over the
Quaker team which, up to an hour be-
fore had been the favorites to win.
His Name immortal
Those are the figure facts OF the
game which Since has had the whole
country talking. To tell about Grange
and the football player he is, there
isn't space enough in this newspaper
to record the feats he does when he
feels the pigskin tucked meath his
elbow and sees charging tacklers bear
ing down toward him.
Suffice it that all now agree he has
everything that any football player
ever had-and just little bit more.
That his place on the 1925 all Ameri.
can is assured, goes without saying.
This is Oranges last year at Illinois
He is without doubt the greatest foot
ball player the middle west has ever
developed. His triumph in the East
was a fitting reward His has not
been a path of roses in his climb to
fame. Perhaps no player has ever
been called upon to do more nor has
ever faced a more desperate attack
than has Red" Grange in his last
drive to gridiron Immortality.
1t must be remembered that Grange
has been stopped only three times
and always it took virtually eleven
men to do it. BY that, the writer
means, that the entire opposing team
was out from the first whistle of the
game ito stop Grange"-"to get
Grange at all cost Michigan did it
first last year. Nebraska and Iowa
this year-and that is ALL
Turn to the other side of the ledger
and we find how really great he is.
We find that the recent Penn game
was but a consistent performance
with all of his three years at Illinois.
Unbelievable as it may seem his
record shows that he has the grand
average Of a 10 yard gain every time
given the ball. Not for one game. Not
for one season-but fer his entire col
lege football career.
Fast of Brain and Foot
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