Today's Tidbit... Chuck Cramer's Sprained Ankle

You may not have heard of Chuck Cramer, who played football for Gardner High School in Kansas in the years immediately after the forward pass became legal. You also may not have heard of Chuck Cramer, who lettered in track at Kansas by pole vaulting 11' 3" in a meet against Missouri. That was back when pole vaulters used bamboo poles, fell into sawdust pits, and a 12' 0" vault earned an invitation to the Olympic Trials.

(1912 Kansas yearbook)

Still, you are familiar with Chuck's life work, which b...