Jim Crowley
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"James Harold "Jim" Crowley" was an American football player and coach. He gained fame as one-fourth of the University of Notre Dame's legendary "Four Horsemen (American football)/Four Horsemen" backfield where he played Halfback (American football)/halfback from 1922 to 1924. After a brief career as a professional football player, Crowley turned to coaching. He served as the head football coach at Michigan State University/Michigan State College from 1929 to 1933, at Fordham University from 1933 to 1941 and at the North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football/North Carolina Pre-Flight School in 1942, compiling a career college football record of 86–23–11. Crowley also coached the Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference in 1947. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1966.

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We get a lot of kids who won't give us as good a look because of weather conditions. It doesn't faze kids from Montreal or Toronto.

At the time, I didn't realize the impact it would have. But the thing just kind of mushroomed. After the splurge in the press, the sports fans of the nation got interested in us along with other sportswriters. Our record helped, too. If we'd lost a couple, I don't think we would have been remembered.

Certainly the bigger issue [than a fine] was building a new facility.