Johnny Mack Brown - cowboy halfback

Johnny Mack Brown was one of the more famous of the legion of cowboy movie actors back in the days when movies were fit to watch. He appeared in more than 160 movies between 1927 and 1966 for the Universal and Monogram studios, of which the biggest part were westerns. Thus his was a household name for a couple of decades.

What film fans might not know is that before he was an actor, Johnny Brown was a halfback for the University of Alabama, which earned the national championship in 1925. He was the MVP of the Rose Bowl that year. He earned the nickname "The Dothan Antelope."