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Reverse varsity football halfback, though he weighed only 125 pounds, and was a member of the late Gil Dobie’s first Big Red squad in 1920. He played briefly in a game with Dartmouth at the Polo Grounds that season. He was a sports writer for the New York Times for 45 years, covering many of Cornell’s sporting events, including crew and football. In his many years of creative coverage, Danzig became the nation’s , if the not the world’s, No.1 tennis and other court games writer, the nation’s No.1 rowing writer, and at least one of America’s greatest football writers. He is the author of several books, including “The History of American Football,” “The Racquet Game,” “Oh, How They Played The Game (football),” “The Fireside Book of Tennis,” which he co-edited, and “Greatest Sports Stories From the New York Times.” He is in the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame and the Helms Foundation Hall of Fame.