"Nobody who didn't live through those days, nobody who never saw him play ever will understand the idolatry with which we who are gradually growing into old timers revere him. For Chic Harley was at once a man and a symbol, a man who was the greatest football player of his kind who ever lived and a symbol that stood for the stark refusal, regardless of the odds, to accept defeat."
--- Russ Needham
Dispatch sports editor, 1941
"Nobody who didn't live through those days, nobody who never saw him play ever will understand the idolatry with which we who are gradually growing into old timers revere him. For Chic Harley was at once a man and a symbol, a man who was the great...