In 1939, the University of Chicago’s football team was so bad that the Tribune headlined its report on one game with barely concealed sarcasm: “Maroons hold Michigan and Harmon, 85 to 0.” Tom Harmon was Michigan’s star. Chicago’s nickname was the Maroons. “After the game, Robert Maynard Hutchins, the university president, came down into the locker room,” John Davenport, the team’s co-captain, .
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