Last year when Yale's Larry Kelley sighed, "Gee, I'm sorry my career is over," he echoed the adolescent sentiments of many another young man who becomes a famed college football player, cashes in his reputation for a job upon graduation, then spends the rest of his life remembering his "great days." Such a one is Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfinger. a Minneapolis boy who played guard for Yale and was on Walter Camp's original All-America football teams of 1889-90-91. After graduation Pudge Heffelfinger played a little professional football, coached at the University of...
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