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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Alfred Earle ("Greasy") Neale has no time for false modesty. He admits that his Philadelphia pro football Eagles are good-so good, he blandly says, that not a single member of Notre Dame's current glamour team could make his starting eleven. They were 1948 National Football League...
On a half-frozen field at the Polo Grounds they put on a stirring show With the poise and precision of a well-trained ballet troupe, they pranced through their T-formation tricks. Tommy Thompson, Greasy's aging quarterback, who admits to 31 but is nearer 34, handled the...
Too Rough. Seldom had pro football seen such a superbly integrated gang of old pros-and Greasy Neale, 58, was the oldest pro of them all. "I won't sit next to him on the bench," cracks Van Buren, "he's too rough." Greasy runs the Eagles with...
A natural competitor, Greasy has taken a crack at big-league baseball (as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds), coached college football from Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men...
Why Not? Beneath Greasy's casual air, his sharp wit and his superstitions (he insists on being last to leave the dining room when his men are eating, last to leave the clubhouse, last out of the bus), lies a vast store of football know-how. He knew the...