<p><span class="deck">SMU isn’t playing this season; men on the team were accepting money from alumni. That’s bad, of course; but today’s game grew out of even-greater scandal.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">That’s what everyone agreed. Jim Thorpe was at the 1912 Olympics, but legend had to make him even more, and draconian rules had to take it all away</span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>The author was a high school football player when a junior coach from West Point tried to recruit him. Years later, the player discovered who the now-famous coach was, and learned a valuable lesson. </span></span></span></span></span></p>