John Brennan (American football)
Brennan was born in Racine, Wisconsin, and attended Carl Schurz High School in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.[2] At the end of the 1936 season, Brennan sparked a controversy when the Associated Press reported that he responded to a questionnaire about women students by saying that "four out of five co-eds are beautiful, and the fifth one comes to Michigan.The Associated Press picked up the story, which was printed in newspapers across the United States under headlines such as "Campus Beauty Weighs 201 Pounds and Are Coeds Piqued" and "Step Up and Take a Bow Miss Brennan".[7][8][9][10] The AP story reported on the vote as follows:"Lantern-jawed John Brennan, 201-pound varsity football player and wrestler, was chosen 'queen' of the University of Michigan ice carnival in a campus outbreak of monkey-shining today."[7]Sports columnist, Henry J. McCormick, also picked up the story and wrote that the selection of the football player and heavyweight wrestler as queen of the ice carnival was the result of "skulduggery" in the balloting, which was traced to Brennan's earlier "direct slap at the pulchritude of Michigan's co-eds," a slap that spawned a campus squabble and "made for some very fine reading in the campus newspaper.