John Brennan ( American football ) John Carter " Jack " Brennan ( September 28 , 1913 – March 1982 ) was an American football player . He played at the guard position for the University of Michigan from 1936 to 1938 and for the Green Bay Packers in 1939 . Biography . Early years . Brennan was born in Racine , Wisconsin , and attended Carl Schurz High School in the Irving Park neghborhood of Chicago , Illinois . Although he stood six feet , two inches and weighed 200 pounds , he was reportedly " the smallest man in his family in three generations . " University of Michigan . Brennan enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1935 where he became a member of the school ' s football and wrestling teams . He played guard for the Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1936 to 1938 . As a sophomore in 1936 , Brennan was a starter for Harry Kipke ' s football team that finished the season with a record of 1 – 6 . At the end of the 1936 season , Brennan sparked a controversy when the Associated Press reported that he responded to a questionnaire about women students by saying that " four out of five co - eds are beautiful , and the fifth one comes to Michigan . " The comment led one Michigan co - ed to reply with a slap at the football team , stating that , " Four out of five men are football players , and the fifth one comes to Michigan . " After the poor showing in 1936 , Brennan was one of the players who helped turn the program around in 1938 under new head coach Fritz Crisler . Brennan and All - American Ralph Heikkinen started every game at the two guard positions for the 1938 team — a team that finished with a 6 – 1 – 1 record and featured All - Americans Tom Harmon and Forest Evashevski in the backfield . The controversy over Brenna ' s comments about Michigan ' s co - eds followed him into his senior year . In January 1939 , he was voted the " queen " of the university ' s ice festival . The Associated Press picked up the story , which was printed in newspapers across the United States under headlines such as " Campus Beauty Weighs 201 Pounds and Are Coeds Piqued " and " Step Up and Take a Bow Miss Brennan " . The AP story reported on the vote as follows : " Lantern - jawed John Brennan , 201 - pound varsity football player and wrestler , was chosen ' queen ' of the University of Michigan ice carnival in a campus outbreak of monkey - shining today . . . . Brennan himself started a campus battle two years ago by observing that ' four out of five women are pretty , and the fifth comes to Michigan . ' Campus aesthetes described Brennan a clipped blond of the type known as statuesque ( reinforced concrete , chiseled with a blow torch ) . " Sports columnist , Henry J . McCormick , also picked up the story and wrote that the selection of the football player and heavyweight wrestler as queen of the ice carnival was the result of " skulduggery " in the balloting , which was traced to Brennan ' s earlier " direct slap at the pulchritude of Michigan ' s co - eds , " a slap that spawned a campus squabble and " made for some very fine reading in the campus newspaper . " Professional football . Brennan was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the 19th round ( 179th overall pick ) of the 1939 NFL Draft . When Brennan signed with the Packers in February 1939 , the story was reported under the headline , " ' QUEEN ' OF MICHIGAN SIGNED BY GREEN BAY " . When Brennan showed up at Curly Lambeau ' s training camp , the press continued to refer to him as " the Michigan ' Ice Queen . ' " Although official records indicate that Brennan appeared in only two games for the Packers during the 1939 NFL season , newspaper accounts indicate that he appeared in at least three games — as a starter in the Packers ' 31 – 0 win over the St . Louis Gunners on October 15 , 1939 , and as a substitute in a 27 – 20 win over the Chicago Cardinals on October 8 , 1939 , and a 26 – 7 win over the Detroit Lions on October 22 , 1939 . Brennan was released by the Packers in October 1939 and signed with the Kenosha Cardinals of the American Pro Football League . In November 1939 , Brennan was added to the Kenosha coaching staff and also continued as a player . Later years . Brennan died in 1982 at age 68 while living in South Bend , Indiana .