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William Henderson ("Red") Friesell, football's most famed referee, last week spiked a rumor that he had worked his last game. In a Philadelphia hospital with a broken leg,* the 46-year-old five-footer, who is a yard-goods buyer when he is not chasing footballs, accused Eastern...
Red Friesell, like many another football referee, never played football at college (he broke his neck making a spectacular tackle in a prep-school game). At Princeton he was famed as Intercollegiate diving champion, football cheerleader and one of the prettiest girls in the pony ballet of the 1914-15...
Born with a flair for showmanship as conspicuous as his red hair, he chases a football like a beagle after a rabbit, always seems to dive to the bottom of the pile to get it. He believes a referee's job calls for neither a blind man nor a...
After seeing movies of the game, Friesell frankly admitted his mistake. Though he could not reverse his decision (a referee's jurisdiction ends with his last whistle toot), Cornell conceded the game to Dartmouth (3-to-0) in a shining display of sportsmanship. Afterwards he actually received letters addressed...
Then it happened. During an exchange of wild rights, Joe took aim with his Sunday punch. Said Lou later, "I forgot to duck." He staggered up at the count of nine, was belted mercilessly along the ropes for a few seconds until Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the fight, one second...