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Yes! He led the nation with 1,566 yards and 21 touchdowns in 1951, his senior season at USF (University of San Francisco.)

He was drafted by the Chicago Cardinals in 1952. The following year he played on the Fort Ord Army football team and was also on it's track team. In fact, he was the coach for the track team.

Both of these team were outstanding - the best Service teams in the nation. The football team was so good that it played an exhibition game with the LA Rams and lost only 7-0. The great sports columnist, Grantland Rice, said that it was the best non-professional team ever assembled. Everyone on the team played professional ball after their discharges from the Army.

The football team played in a special New Year's Day Bowl Game (the Sun Bowl in Arizona, as I recall. They played the 2nd best Service team, Quantico Marines, and won 63-0. The team, obviously, was loaded with talent but nobody on it was more talented than Ollie - who was also one of the world's great human beings. Well, as of this writing, he still is.

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