SpiralsIvy League football is a preoccupation in Timothy Spearss family history. His grandfather Clarence Doc Spears was an All American guard at Dartmouth in the early twentieth century, played on the Canton Bulldogs with Jim Thorpe, became a College Hall of Fame coach, and, as the legend goes, discovered Bronko Nagurski while driving through the backcountry of Minnesota. His father, Robert Spears, captained Yales 1951 team and was drafted by the Chicago