One of the greatest of all UW football players, and certainly the most mysterious, was Pat O’Dea, an Australian who near the turn of the 20th century set kicking records in Madison that reverberated across the country, and then disappeared, only to be found 17 years later living under an assumed name in northern California.
O’Dea’s story, and many others, can be found in a new book, “Wisconsin Football Vault,” which might be described as a kind of next generation coffee table book.
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