As the newspapers reported itThe 1926 Milwaukee football amnesia case

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Thursday, October 14, 1926

The 1926 Milwaukee football amnesia case

As printed: Foot Ball Signals Bring Identification Of Student Who Lost Memory in Crash

Evening Star, Washington, District Of Columbia: Foot Ball Signals Bring Identification Of Student Who Lost Memory in Crash

ContextNorthwestern University is at Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago. Football signals are the strings of numbers a quarterback calls at the line of scrimmage to set a play, "shift" being the command to move the backfield before the snap.

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