Jack Trice's written words were almost a foreshadowing, a devastating preview, of what would happen on the football field the next day.
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Inside his hotel room that night, there was no way Trice could have known what would happen the next day in Iowa State's game against Minnesota, his second of his college football career. But the words he wrote alone that night were uncanny. On a following play, Trice made a body block, throwing himself horizontally against an opponent and was knocked to the ground.
Once there, doctors"declared the injured athlete's condition was such that an emergency surgical operation could do nothing for his relief," the Minneapolis Star reported. A surgery would have killed Trice immediately. Without surgery, he would also die. He grew up loving sports and excelling at most of them. When he was 16, Trice's mother sent him to live with an uncle in Cleveland, where he played football at East Technical High. His coach there was Sam Willaman.
"He was popular among his fellow students and the professors," newspapers reported,"and was a fine student with his average grade a 90."
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