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THE CASE OF PAT O'DEA Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, November 14. A message from Madison, Wisconsin, says that Pat O’Dea, the man who came from Australia thirty years ago to write the greatest chapter in Wisconsin’s football history and then disappeared to escape the tumu|t and shouting, will come back to Madison on Saturday as an honoured guest at the game between the University of Wisconsin Badgers and Illinois. O’Dea was regarded as the greatest kicker who ever wore a cleated shoe in the United States. For sixteen years he was given up as dead, a victim of the Great War, having dropped out of sight under the name of Charles Mitchell, feeling that his football fame was a handicap to him in business. Only a few weeks ago did he reveal bis identity when he was recognised working in a lumber camp at Westwood, California.
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Evening Star, Issue 21879, 16 November 1934, Page 11
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