"Red" Grange was born on June 13, 1903, in Forksville, Pennsylvania, a village of about 200 people in an area of lumber camps [REF].
To help the family earn money, he took a part-time job as an ice toter for $37.50 per week,[REF] a job which helped him to build his core strength (and provided the source of one of his nicknames: "Ice Man", or "the Wheaton Ice Man") [REF].