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1997.05.01Description
A Cheney Studs Pee Wee football player is all smiles as he meets Otto Graham, the standout NFL quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. Graham was in Tacoma for a football clinic. The Cheney Studs were part of a larger Pee Wee organization that was sponsored by sports enthusiast and philanthropist Ben Cheney. Cheney himself was an avid baseball fan but came from a low-income family and couldn’t afford his own baseball gear. Cheney grew up to sponsor numerous teams, of both sexes, and by his death in 1971 it was estimated Cheney had helped more than 5,000 youth through sponsorship by the Cheney Lumber Company, which was founded by Cheney in 1936. The youth program also included baseball, hockey, and basketball and started in the mid-1950s.Lexicon
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