INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION ™ The College Football Historian ™ Reliving college football’s unique and interesting history—today!! ISSN: 2326-3628 [June 2014… Vol. 7, No. 5] circa: Jan. 2008 Tex Noël, Editor (
[email protected]) Website: http://www.secsportsfan.com/college-football-association.html Disclaimer: Not associated with the NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA or their colleges and universities. All content is protected by copyright© by the author. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/theifra In honor of D-Day, IFRA salutes and thanks our true American Heroes—the U.S. Military. A number of our subscribers have served in the Armed Forces—and we thank you for your service to our country. And if reader of this issues was in Normandy that day—or WW II— we say a Texas-size thank you. “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969); Military Commander and 34th US President and football at West Point, 1912-14). Editor’s Note: I forgot to site this source; but this seems like the ideal time to use it. When Pvt. Dick Weber, Lawrence, Mass., halfback on the 1941 St. Louis university football team, was sent to a west coast army camp, he spent five days looking for a former teammate, Ray Schmissour, Belleville, Ill. Then he found Schmissour, a guard on the 1940 Billiken squad, was living only two buildings from his own quarters. * * * Attached to this month’s issue of TCFH, will be Loren Maxwell’s Classifying College Football Teams from 1882 to 1972, Revisited The College Football Historian-2 - Used by permission of the author Football History: A Stagg Party In Forest Grove By Blake Timm '98, Sports Information Director (Pacific University) Amos Alonzo Stagg, "The Grand Old Man Of Football," joins his son, former Pacific Head Coach Dr.