Vernon Huffman

All-State back guard for New Castle … 3-year letter-winner … keyed Trojans’ 1932 state championship … as a senior played football just one year, but earned All-State acclaim as an end at Indiana University … 3 letters each in basketball and football … All-American in both basketball and football in ’36 … played two years of professional football with the Detroit Lions … held a law degree from Indiana University … his college career spanned 5 years because of a severe ankle injury that cost him the ’34 football season and the ’35 basketball season.