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...Stadium hardly resembles a pawn shop, but there is a connection in the mind of tackle Bob Stargel. Once the senior was faced with the choice of being a football player or a pawn broker, and football...
...youth in Cincinnati, Stargel was working after school as a stock boy in a pawn shop and doing quite well. But in the fall of his sophomore year, he was faced with the choice of giving up his pawn shop job to play football or foregoing the gridiron...
...Stargel's mother and brother stepped in at this point to help him make up his mind. They persuaded the husky youth that football was more in his line than pawn shopping, and would, in the long run, do him more good. He decided to try for the Walnut Hills high school varsity, and made it with ease. For three years, he divided his time between tackle, end, fullback and tailback. The concluded his scholastic football career in the annual North-South all-star high school football game...
...gearing facts culled from yesterday's football practice were that outstanding tailback Dick Clasby may see no action against Army on Saturday and that huge Bob Stargel may be switched from tackle to defensive...
...transfer of Stargel from tackle to and is not too much of a surprise. The 202-pound junior, fairly fast for a player his size, alternated between the two positions on the '53 freshman team...