On a lighter note, the difficulties that Ohio State and its star player, Maurice Clarett, find themselves in, prompted this memory from a James Thurber memoir, The Thurber Album. Thurber, himself an OSU alum, wrote, concerning a track star whose professor had gotten the better of him in class:
He had mistaken his professor for one of those who pampered athletes, in a tradition that began in 1916, when Ohio State's football team won its first Western Conference title.
