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They Played for Laughs

The True Story of Stewart Ferguson and the Arkansas A&M Wandering Weevils, College Football’s "Marx Brothers"

by Jim Brewer

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The Wandering Weevils . . . College Football’s Marx Brothers

From 1939 to 1941, the football team from tiny Arkansas A&M College turned the college football world upside down. The Boll Weevils—or Wandering Weevils as they were known in the national press—traveled the country playing football for laughs. Along the way, they became national sensations, using unorthodox formations, wild plays and on-field pranks that left friends and foes alike convulsed in laughter or scratching their heads in bewilderment. Collier’s magazine labeled them the “Marx Brothers of College Football” and newspaper headline writers struggled for adjectives to describe Ferguson’s team . . . “A Circus Without Fleas,” “The Nuttiest Team in Football,” and “Fergie’s Wacky Eleven.” The architect of this madness, head coach Stewart Ferguson, believed the game should be played for fun and conceived the outrageous idea of turning football games from serious sport into comedy. His players were country boys. Most had never been more than 10 miles from home. Now they were traveling the country from coast to coast, touring Revolutionary and Civil War battlefields, gawking at New York skyscrapers, meeting radio and motion picture stars, and seeing natural wonders like the Grand Canyon and the redwood forests. This is their story.

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Hardback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Dust-Jacketed Hardback, 209 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jan 09, 2021)
ISBN10: 1977237053
ISBN13: 9781977237057
Genre: SPORTS & RECREATION / Football

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Jim BrewerJIM BREWER is the author of Arkansas Football Yesterday and Today and coauthor (with Larry Foley) of Hog Calls: 100 Years of Arkansas Razorback Football. He spent four decades as sports information director, director of information, and director of media services at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. A graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, he is retired and lives in Bentonville, Arkansas.
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