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You joined the podcast today where we're going to talk about a legendary Nittany lion quarterback.
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A couple NFL quarterbacks named Steve and the ladies are here during a game in just a minute.
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This is the Pigskin Daily History Dispatch, a podcast that covers the anniversaries of American football events throughout history on a day to day basis.
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This is your host Darren Hayes and we're broadcasting from the Pig Pen in Western Pennsylvania bringing you the memories of the gridiron one day at a time.
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So with Mike and Gene Munro as well as Jason Neff supplying us with the twos, let's go no huddle through today's football history head hi friends and welcome to the Pigskin Daily History Dispatch Podcast.
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I'm your host Darrin Hayes and we are going to cover the events of football that happened on the date of September 13th through history.
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Let's break huddle and get right at it.
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The pack had a 17 point lead at home in the confines of Lambeau Field, but the Falcons quarterback Steve Bartkowski and company had not given up even though they had not scored a point all day, due in part to the stifling packers defense.
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The Falcons defense became increasingly aggressive with blitz packages that stalled the Green Bay offense and Barkowski found his top wide out, Alfred Jenkins with some key strikes to move the Atlanta O down the field to pater.
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It looked like Green Bay at one point had found its offense again as they moved the ball with passes from Lynn Dickey to wide out James Lofton.
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But a back breaking fumble by running back Turdle Middleton and the subsequent 57 yard scoop and score by Falcons defender linebacker Joel Williams kept the game's momentum with Atlanta and a final score.
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Then we jump into the next decade.
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Down 34 to nothing in the third quarter, the G Men put up 28 unanswered points but fall short as the boys step up late to hold on to a 34 28W.
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The voices of Andrea Kramer and Hannah Storm graced the sound waves to entertain the web viewing audience.
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The Bengals ended up on top:
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And if you are, please click the subscribe button to this podcast and also check out some of the other great podcasts from my friends on the Sports History Network.
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Catch all this on a Sports history network@sportshistorynetwork.com it's that time of our podcast where we like to celebrate the hall of Fame and legendary football players birthdays.
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Our feature person of the Day Glenn Killinger.
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He was a former Penn State University quarterback.
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As World War I broke out, Killinger was informed that at 17 years of age he was too young to enlist in the US army, so instead he enrolled at Penn State in the Metallurgical engineering program.
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While at the school he met a very influential person in his life, Coach Hugo Bezdek.
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Bezdek was quite an accomplished athlete in his own right.
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We'll get much more into detail on him on his birthday.
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April 1.
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The player and the coach clicked.
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Bezdek molded the young Glenn Killinger into a fine quarterback and a great baseball player too.
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Killinger earned nine letters altogether in the athletics at Penn State, three for football, three for baseball, three for basketball.
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The highly regarded sports writer Grantland Rice described Killinger as one of the best running quarterbacks.
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Legendary coaches Pop Warner and John Heisman compared him to Jim Thorpe for being one of the greatest multi sport athletes in America.
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After graduation, Killinger played professional football in the NFL with the Canton Bulldogs and the New York Giants as well as with the first AFL's Philadelphia Quakers.
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The athletic Killinger also played minor League baseball for 10 years and had a stint in the big leagues with the New York Yankees.
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His career college coaching record was a remarkable 176 wins, 72 losses and 16 ties.
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Glenn found the time to coach some college baseball and basketball too, as well as being a minor league baseball manager to boot.
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Clint Frank was a former Yale University halfback.
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He won both a Maxwell Award and a Heisman Award, beating out the legendary Byron Whizzer White for his great play on the field.
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He eventually served his country in the Army Air Corps as a lieutenant colonel during World War II.
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Frank to enter their hall in:
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Zarabski's Fighting Irish play was interrupted for a couple seasons as he served in the military during World War II, but he went right back after the war to finish his studies and his playing eligibility.
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Zivnik played pro football in the All American Football Conference for the Chicago Hornets and the Chicago Rockets.
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That's all the football history we have today, folks.
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Join us back tomorrow for more of your football history.
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Special thanks to the talents of Mike and Gene Munro, as well as Jason Neff for letting us use their music during our podcast.
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This podcast is part of the Sports History Network, your headquarters for the yesteryear of your favorite sport.
