Read more about the article Charlie Wedemeyer’s Hall of Fame life and wife get call from Polynesian Football Hall of Fame

Charlie Wedemeyer’s Hall of Fame life and wife get call from Polynesian Football Hall of Fame

PHOTO: Michigan State's Charlie Wedemeyer, who was named posthumously on Dec. 29 to the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2021, with his saintly wife Lucy in 2005 at their alma mater, Punahou School in Honolulu. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN Duffy Daugherty grabbed the microphone while mixed among a roomful of NFL icons during Super Bowl XIX week. Michigan State’s College Football Hall of Fame coach, never short on engaging stories to tell,…

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Read more about the article Michigan State still has “Tommy Kaulukukui” eyes and ears eager to help re-tap Duffy’s Hawaiian Pipeline

Michigan State still has “Tommy Kaulukukui” eyes and ears eager to help re-tap Duffy’s Hawaiian Pipeline

PHOTO: Hawaiian Pipeline alumnus Charles Ane of Honolulu Punahou was a second-team All-Big Ten center his senior year in 1974. By TOM SHANAHAN Charles "Kale" Ane III enjoys watching college football mainland games beamed to his Hawaii TV, unfolding coast to coast by time zones. He’s alternately filled with pride and a pang, the emotions churning within him. Pride in the number of Hawaiian athletes succeeding on the mainland. Pang for the absence of Hawaiians playing at Michigan…

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Read more about the article The case for Duffy Daugherty’s statue on Michigan State’s campus

The case for Duffy Daugherty’s statue on Michigan State’s campus

By TOM SHANAHAN A uniquely American sport celebrates its sesquicentennial in the 2019 season. After Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4 on Nov. 6, 1869, college football grew the next 150 years coast to coast and beyond -- halfway across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii. The game learned to adapt to the times, albeit sometimes slowly, but no transformation has been more profound than the racial barriers Michigan State Coach Duffy Daugherty’s Underground Railroad teams of the 1960s broke down.…

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