Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Joe Steffy, College Football...

...Hall of Famer (shown here serving tea to his fellow cadets), died at age 85. The 5' 10", 190-pound guard played one season at the University of Tennessee and three at West Point in the 1940s:

Steffy recalled that sportswriters in New York would often ask him about the most intense game he played in. For all his memories of West Point, his thoughts went back to a 0-0 tie in his first year of college football.

As he related it to The Chattanooga Times Free Press in 1999: “I told ’em, Tennessee and Alabama. You determined who won that game by the number of teeth you had left when the game was over.”

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