I watched Red Grange 'run wild'.(Opinion)(Column)

The Christian Science Monitor | January 4, 2000 | Copyright

As I look back over the last half century, I can say I've been privileged to have a front seat at a lot of important political events, and I've been able to watch a number of our nation's leaders in action. But I've seen only one of what could be called a "greatest happening of the century" - or, for that matter, of the millennium - actually unfold fully before my eyes. And it was in sports, not politics. It turns out that some football experts now are ranking the game when Illinois' Red Grange "ran wild" against Michigan in October of 1924 as the greatest college football ...

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