When named his high school football team’s captain in his senior year in 1911, a Decatur newspaper ran a brief story under the heading “Fat Player Is Elected Captain.” It wrote that, at 245 pounds, he was “the heaviest high school football player in Illinois.” But he embraced “Fat” as a nickname (he previously carried… Continue reading ‘Doc’ Spears: Kewanee sports star played and coached his way to fame – while practicing medicine
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