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Fictional Stanford football trivia - Phogge - 03-24-2020

What character in a Fifties blockbuster novel captained the Stanford football team?

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RE: Fictional Stanford football trivia - Spiny_Norman - 03-25-2020

Sal Paradise? I know that Kerouac was a good athlete. Think he played college football.

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RE: Fictional Stanford football trivia - Phogge - 03-25-2020

In Stanford grad Allen Drury's best selling '59 novel "Advise and Consent" Utah Senator Brigham Anderson is one of the key characters. In his bio chapter it is noted that he captained the Stanford football team. He is played in the film based upon the book by Don Murray.

What noted criminal defense attorney played for Chuck Taylor at Stanford?

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RE: Fictional Stanford football trivia - BobK - 03-25-2020

Betting Tony Serra never played football

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RE: Fictional Stanford football trivia - Red80 - 03-25-2020

(03-24-2020, 11:27 PM)Phogge Wrote:  What character in a Fifties blockbuster novel captained the Stanford football team?

Which two former Stanford AA football players appeared in the same movie?

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RE: Fictional Stanford football trivia - BobK - 03-25-2020

Frankie Albert and?

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RE: Fictional Stanford football trivia - Phogge - 03-25-2020

Serra is pictured in the 1954 Big Game program. No. 85, end. Soph from SF, 6'1" 188LBS. He once told me that he hated Taylor so he quit and got his law degree.

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Albert and Norm Standlee. Or Albert and Hugh Gallernau.

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RE: Fictional Stanford football trivia - Red80 - 03-25-2020

(03-25-2020, 02:55 PM)BobK Wrote:  Frankie Albert and?

Ernie Nevers. The Spirit Of Stanford. 1942.

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RE: Fictional Stanford football trivia - BobK - 03-25-2020

I would never have guessed Nevers

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RE: Fictional Stanford football trivia - CompSci87 - 03-25-2020

(03-25-2020, 05:24 PM)BobK Wrote:  I would never have guessed Nevers

Never say Nevers?

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