A good gridder could get by with very few Game specialties, always directing the selection to one of these.

(It's his name, too - Mo Gridder was a childhood nickname.)

Except you can spot a gridder when you see one; they look debauched, old, fat, listless-- the latter always between the phone-line orgies, of course."

According to Cochems' obituary in the Wisconsin alumnus, his kickoff return against Chicago in 1901 "brought him undying fame as a gridder."

His 152 tackles in the 2006 season ranked No. 1 in the Big Ten and is the sixth best single-season effort ever posted by an Illini gridder.

When the weather is good, keep an eye out for the Mo Gridder rig, which will be proudly parked out in front of Hunts Point Auto Sales and Service.

Jimmy Donahue, a syndicated sportswriter for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, wrote: "Another miniature edition of a gridder brought Michigan out of the doldrums to victory over Georgia Tech recently.

The long-winded Admiral Gridder had addressed the Gold Squadron pilots for over an hour, and the only way to get through the long speech had been to drink freely of the captured Queln wine.

In a 1954 profile on Doll, a reporter noted, "Don, who's built like a bank clerk, piano tuner, soda jerk, errand boy or - egad - even a sports writer doesn't look any more like a pro gridder than your cousin Joe."

By mid-season, the Associated Press ran a feature story on Kuzma, reporting that "this 19-year-old gridder had surpassed Harmon's sophomore record in scoring, had neared his first-year passing mark and had become one of the Western Conference's greatest kickers."

Ashbaugh gained early recognition as an All-City Gridder at Youngstown's South High School, in 1938, where he quarterbacked under his father, former Brown University gridder Russell ("Busty") Ashbaugh.