Little Tough Guys: Faces of the Young America #Football League, 1939 via Life.com. http://ti.me/1xgt7RN .

Little Tough Guys: Faces of the Young America #Football League, 1939 via Life.com. http://ti.me/1xgt7RN .

When kids were men.

"The kids also love the initiation . A candidate swears to be a good student and not bully the girls. Then he must say: 'I promise to remember that what matters most is courage; that it is no disgrace to be beaten; but that the great disgrace is to turn yellow.'”

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