 From the 1920s through the 1950s , the story was told , re @-@ told and likely embellished in columns by Grantland Rice , Art Carlson , Frank Blair and Dave Lewis — more than one of them writing that they had seen the game in person . In Carlson 's 1925 account , " the giant center had been rendered practically useless from the Penn attack " , but refused to leave the game . Carlson recalled Schulz 's removal from the game this way : " It was a scene I shall never forget — the giant Schulz , towering above the rest of the combatants , literally dragged off the field , tears streaming down his mud @-@ spattered cheeks as he frantically protested his removal from the game " . 
