Today's Tidbit... The Most Famous Player You've Never Heard Of

NYU’s Ed Smith striking a punting pose (1934 NYU yearbook)

New York University calls Manhattan's Greenwich Village home, and when they played big-time football back in 1935, they never left New York City. The Violets played and won six of the first seven games on their home field at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, with another victory over Rutgers at the Bronx's Ohio Field. NYU typically had 10,000 to 20,000 fan pass through the turnstiles for their games, but the season-ender versus Fordham at Yank...