Some things you might not know about Hollywood Shooting Star Johnny Mack Brown. The Alabama “artful dodger” was an All-American halfback at Alabama who scored 2 of Bama’s 3 TDs in the 1926 Rose Bowl where he was named Most Valuable Player in an upset win over the heavily-favored Washington Huskies. That Crimson Tide football team was the first from the South to win a Rose Bowl. Those were the days when bowl games were as rare as horse flies in December and the Rose Bowl was the game for th


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