Red Grange - in Popular Culture

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  • In the song "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" as released in 1960 by The Kingston Trio on their album Sold Out, guards in the Tower of London mistake Anne Boleyn, haunting the castle with her head tucked underneath her arm after being beheaded, for Red Grange carrying a football.
  • The 2008 movie Leatherheads, starring George Clooney, John Krasinski and RenĂ©e Zellweger, was loosely based on Grange.
  • First football player to ever appear on a box of Wheaties.

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