Grange’s Influence Lasts to This Day

Your obituary of Red Grange was especially interesting because of the details of how Grange tore up Franklin Field and the Penn eleven in 1925.

I was a Penn freshman in 1931 and of course had not seen the 1925 game, but some of the faculty members who had seen the massacre, particularly those who wanted Penn to downgrade football, mentioned it in classes from time to time, as part of our education.

A telling point by the profs was the recital of some of the Sunday sports page headlines, particularly one that proclaimed, GRANGE 24, PENN 2. In any event, the Galloping Ghost and Illinois, aided later by Pitt and Notre Dame, helped Penn to concentrate on Ivy League athletics.

JOHN MOTLEY

Los Angeles