Revisit this piece by Joe Drape, who is also an SMU alum.
NY TImes
Coach Who Revived S.M.U. Looks Back With Pride
By JOE DRAPE
JULY 31, 2012
Forrest Gregg has a tremor in his hand, his once granite shoulders are stooped and his booming baritone is now a halting whisper. His memory comes and goes, but the N.F.L. Hall of Famer doesn’t blame it on the Parkinson’s disease he is battling and expects is the product of too many concussions.
“I’m old,” Gregg, 78, said with a chuckle.
Vince Lombardi wrote that Gregg “was the finest player I ever coached.” Gregg was reminded of that the other day on a phone call after the N.C.A.A. levied a stiff penalty on Penn State’s football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal.
Gregg was eager to speak about the finest bunch of players he said he had ever been around. He could tick off most their names, but no one outside the most die-hard Southern Methodist University football fans would ever recognize them.
They were small and not all that talented and most of them did not have scholarships or really any business playing major college football on autumn Saturdays.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/spor ... pride.html