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Lee McClung , a College Football Hall of Famer , also served as Treasurer of the United States , advocating the withdrawal of worn, dirty banknotes on sanitary grounds?
Hugh Green received the Walter Camp Award and the Lombardi Award , and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996 ?
Bob "Horse" Reynolds founded the Los Angeles Angels baseball team and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame within a year?
Walter Hass , who helped reestablish the sport at the University of Chicago , played college football under three different Hall of Fame head coaches?
all nine individuals who served as Michigan Wolverines head football coaches from 1900 to 1989 have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame ?
the All-American Wistert brothers Albert , Alvin and Whitey wore number 11 and played offensive tackle as University of Michigan Wolverines before being named to the College Football Hall of Fame ?
prior to the 1916 college football season, John R. Bender and Hall-of-Famer Zora G. Clevenger in effect traded jobs as head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee ?
Barry Wood , who played quarterback at Harvard and became a physician and microbiologist , was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Sciences ?
Michigan 's "chunky fullback ," "Bullet Bob" Westfall , known for his "spinner play," was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987?
Football Hall of Famer Huntington "Tack" Hardwick was called "a big, fine-looking aristocrat from blue-blood stock" who "loved combat – body contact at crushing force – a fight to the finish"?
College Football Hall of Fame inductee Stan "Bags" Pennock was killed in an explosion that wrecked the chemical plant he opened in an abandoned New Jersey slaughterhouse?
Hall of Fame quarterback Charley Barrett died of an illness contracted in an explosion on the USS Brooklyn in Yokohama Harbor during World War I ?
Hall of Fame tackle Harold Ballin was "the hardest-hitting player" ever faced by fellow Hall of Famer Charles Brickley and the last Princeton player to play without a helmet ?
Georgia Tech halfback and College Football Hall of Fame inductee "Stroop" Strupper used lip-reading to overcome deafness ?
Hall of Fame football player Ed Molinski was also a Golden Gloves state boxing champion and served in the U.S. Marines during World War II ?
College Football Hall of Fame center Shorty Des Jardien played in the NFL for the Chicago Tigers and in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians ?
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Question 2 : The
exterior of the building features a 19,000-square-foot
(1,800 m2 ) ________ space, named the
Gridiron Plaza, that can be rented to host outdoor events.
Question 6 : It is slated to
move to ________ in the near future, after its
lease expires at its current facility on December 31, 2010.
Question 7 : The museum hall, located on the underground level, features
memorials and memorabilia of great ________ players and coaches
of the past.
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