Johnny Mac(k) Brown

[Wilson Gray]

On Sep 6, 2004, at 2:12 AM, Mullins, Bill wrote:

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> The Alabama Football Press Guide lists him as both "Johnny Mac Brown"
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> "Johnny Mack Brown".  The College Football Hall of Fame lists the
> latter.
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Perhaps one of the people who wrote the press guide was laboring under
the same misapprehension that I was. As dInIs has pointed out, the
pronunciation of "[Name] M(a)c[Name]" as "Name Mack Name" is not a rara
avis amongst us Southrons.

-Wilson Gray