Grange is all through this story! One theory Pottsville always put forward was that the games that the Cardinals added at the end of the season were at the request of NFL President Joe Car so they would have a better record than the Maroons and he had a better argument against Pottsville. In reality it appears that adding these games was an attempt by Chris O'Brien to be able to woo the Grange-led Bears into playing another game that would generate lots of $$$$. He mistakenly didn't take a portion of the gate receipts the first time the Bears and Cards played and didn't see the kind of dollars lots of visiting teams saw when playing the Bears late that season.
Unfortunately for the Cards, Grange got hurt and the Cards hope of playing the Bears in a lucrative game never materialized.
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