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What Dan McGugin told his team in 1921, while at the gravesite of his former quarterback, Rabbit Curry, before a big game against Texas:

You are about to be put to an ordeal which will show the stuff that’s in you! What a glorious chance you have! Every one of you is going to fix his status for all time in the minds and hearts of his teammates today. How you fight is what you will be remembered by. If any shirk, the Lord pity him. He will be degraded in the hearts of the rest as long as they live.