Howard Kramer "Howdy" Gray (August 28, 1901 – September 6, 1955) was a

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player and

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Princeton

Gray was a prominent end on the Princeton Tigers football team. 1922 Princeton v

1922

On the national champion " Team of Destiny" in its game against Chicago, Howdy picked up a fumble and ran it 40 yards for the touchdown. Gray's father, the president of the Union Pacific Railroad, wildly waved his program and hit a woman in the shoulder. "Hey, that's my wife," a man shouted at him. "Sorry," the excited father said, "but that was my boy who scored." "Oh," the husband said. "Hit her again." Various selectors picked Gray for All-American.e. g. An impostor claiming to be the 1922 All-American end from Princeton surnamed Gray managed to get signed to the

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of the National Football League. The impostor, who misquoted Gray's first name as Jack "Dolly" Gray, was then pawned off onto the

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after it became clear he was not the Princeton end.

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