...Heywood sold her home...and many of her possessions...and began paring down...finally to a horse trailer that helped make taking care of her dying husband, Ralph, a little bit easier......Heywood worked hard all his life. Even with a football scholarship to [USC], he took a job as a busboy at a sorority...
...A two-way end...a captain on the 1943 USC team...played just five games before being drafted...
...played professional football for the Chicago Rockets, Detroit Lions...returned...to serve in Korea in 1952...to command the 26th Marine Regiment in Vietnam, making him the only player in NFL history to serve in three wars...the Naval Attaché to the Dominican Republic...An accomplished horseman...a black belt in karate and trained jet pilot...acted in some movies, played tennis with Charlton Heston...and a golfing buddy of Bob Hope...
Also, Ralph Heywood, 85; former USC end later served as a Marine - LA Times
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