Football/golf trivia question--prize: 1948 Exhibit HOF card to winner
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(This is really too EZ for you whizkids--but I'll throw it out there anyway! I expect it to be answered within the first 5 minutes...but maybe not 
During the middle of the last century, the source for the following quote (named by one national sports magazine as its "Golfer of the Century), brought his rocking chair to a sudden stop and proceeded to refute to his interviewer an erroneous account first published decades earlier by Arthur Daley of the New York Times:
``I was not hurt at all in the Carlisle game! As a matter of fact I was thoroughly enjoying the challenge that Thorpe was presenting. Except for Jim Thorpe, Carlisle would have been an easy team to beat. On the football field, there was no one like him in the world! Against us, he dominated all of the action. On the particular play in question, my pal in the backfield, a man named Charles Bennedict, decided that he could stop him. So we came at him fairly fast with heads lowered, but he stopped short and we collided. Apparently, when we got up, we staggered a little bit and Coach was signaling us out. The both of us ran to the sidelines and begged him to let us remain in the game, but he said to take a rest and then return in the next quarter. You see, in those days, you could not re-enter a game in the same quarter. By the next quarter, however, Carlisle was so far in front he told us we might as well go to the showers.''
To win the prize--Name the player and the team he played for.
Good Luck!!!
During the middle of the last century, the source for the following quote (named by one national sports magazine as its "Golfer of the Century), brought his rocking chair to a sudden stop and proceeded to refute to his interviewer an erroneous account first published decades earlier by Arthur Daley of the New York Times:
``I was not hurt at all in the Carlisle game! As a matter of fact I was thoroughly enjoying the challenge that Thorpe was presenting. Except for Jim Thorpe, Carlisle would have been an easy team to beat. On the football field, there was no one like him in the world! Against us, he dominated all of the action. On the particular play in question, my pal in the backfield, a man named Charles Bennedict, decided that he could stop him. So we came at him fairly fast with heads lowered, but he stopped short and we collided. Apparently, when we got up, we staggered a little bit and Coach was signaling us out. The both of us ran to the sidelines and begged him to let us remain in the game, but he said to take a rest and then return in the next quarter. You see, in those days, you could not re-enter a game in the same quarter. By the next quarter, however, Carlisle was so far in front he told us we might as well go to the showers.''
To win the prize--Name the player and the team he played for.
Good Luck!!!
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Answer: Augusta National member, West Point halfback, World War II Commander of the Allied Forces, President of the United States, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Source: ``Jim Thorpe: World's Greatest Athlete,'' by Robert W. Wheeler.)
I've used that before elsewhere--people forget Ike was Mr. Everyman Golfer, and of course a close friend of Jones and Roberts. Golfweek named him GOTC
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