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| Nine members of the 1931 WSU Rose Bowl team with Radio Pictures actress Irene Dunne. John Hurley is second from the right. Left to right: Howard Morgan, Bill Goodwin, Mel Hein, Homer Hein, Dunne, Virgin Jackson, Glen Edwards, Harold Ahloskog, Hurley and Elmer Schwartz. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress in her career. (Image compliments of Washington State Libraries Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections). |
| See video of 1931 WSU Rose Bowl team |
PULLMAN, Wash. – Margaret Hurley’s 1944 handwritten note to Washington State College President Ernest O. Holland reads:
“My heartfelt thanks for your very kind words and comforting letter of sympathy. So many people share my grief. John was always a friend of his alma mater. His college days at Washington State were unusually happy, and he loved to talk about them.”
The note, dated Feb. 7, 1944, was in response to a letter Holland sent to Margaret two weeks earlier in sympathy over the loss of her husband at the battlefields of Italy in World War II.
As a student at WSC from 1927 to 1931, “Long John” Hurley’s football career as a right end culminated as a member of one of the greatest teams in Washington State football history.
It was a career that began auspiciously. To read the full story, click on the following link to the WSU Cougars website.