The 1917 season featured Vanderbilt's worst-ever loss, 83 0 to Alabama game, he shouted to reserve fullback Top Richardson to " hit hard on every play . " " Yes, sir ! " Richardson replied, " I'll knock hell out of anyone who comes near this bench !"
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Hechler held a series of minor appointed positions in the federal civil service until he was drafted into the United States Army during World War II . After graduation from Armored Force Officer Candidate School, he was assigned as a combat historian in the European Theater of Operations, and following the war was assigned to interview many of the defendants prior to the Nuremberg Trials, including Hermann G�ring . ( Hechler records him making a delusional offer to join the American side and " knock hell out of the Russians . " ) Hechler helped chronicle the liberation of France, the 1944 Normandy invasion, Battle of the Bulge, and entrance into Nazi Germany.