Amos Dodd
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Contest:
2023 Fictitious Veterans Round 1
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TV Show/Movie Appeared:
Pigskin Parade (1935)
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Actor/Actress:
Stuart Erwin
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Position Portrayed:
Quarterback
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Played For::
Texas State University
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Why you should vote::
If you go by what you saw on the field, this was the guy that led the team to a huge win over Yale (when beating Yale mattered).
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Why you should not vote::
The Coach’s daughter calling the winning play? Come one, man!
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Long before the Waterboy, we had Amos Dodd, a simple man from Texas who could throw a watermelon farther than anyone else had ever seen? Does that translate into College Football? Why of course it does, and through a strange turn of events (boy do we say that a lot), he is recruited to play for small Texas State against the powerhouse of Yale, which in 1935 was actually true. Stuart Erwin, who played Amos Dodd, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance.
