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...those days, pro football was insouciant and insolvent; Halas turned it into a thriving business practically overnight. Drawn by such magical names as Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski, fans swarmed to see the Bears play; in 1925, 70,000 turned out for a game in Los Angeles. No slouch himself as a player, Halas set an N.F.L. record by running 98 yds. with a recovered fumble (the fumbler: Jim Thorpe)-but he is better remembered as perhaps the best illegal user of hands in the game...
...since the 19303, when Bronko Nagurski was crumpling lines for the Chicago Bears, have football fans seen such a numbing fullback as the Cleveland Browns' young (23) Jimmy Brown. Magnificently muscled (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.), Brown has a sprinter's speed, strength enough to carry along a brace of tacklers. When he hits defensive backs with a low shoulder, he can send them cartwheeling. Last year Brown smashed 1,527 yds. in twelve games to shatter the league ground-gaining record by a fabulous 381 yds. And even the lowly Los Angeles Rams, at the bottom...
Just as the season has produced no football team that towers head and shoulders above all the others, it has uncovered no single outstanding player in the tradition of Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski (1929), Michigan's Tom Harmon (1940), Ohio State's Hopalong Cassady (1955). Instead, All-America selectors-and the pro teams-will have to choose among a large group of topflight, if not superhuman players...
...Warren, she is as fantastical a grandmother as ever there was. Half-crazy she lies on her bed, her great cat-eyes wide muttering like Tieresias. But, in the end, since no one else can do it, she unearths a revolver from behind her bed, and, tough as Bronko Nagurski, she appears at the head of the stairs to pump most of her dozen shots into the murderer. Next to Ethel Barrymore, the most attractive character is Charlton the bulldog who lazes by the fire, goes out courting the neighbor's dog, and attacks the constable...
...Tricks. Halas himself quit playing in 1930, but with such great stars as Bronko Nagurski, Beattie Feathers, Joe Stydahar and Sid Luckman, the Bears earned the nickname "Monsters of the Midway," and won more than their share of divisional titles...