One of the oddest teams to have ever played the game came out of the town of Rawlins, Wyoming, home of the state Penitentiary. The team was odd because its players were all prisoners at that penitentiary, serving time for all kinds of crimes, including murder.
By September of 1944, the Western Allies had broken out of the Normandy beachehead, and suddenly and quickly moved across northern France . By September 7th, the 90th division was stretched across the northern sector on Patton’s Third Army’s left, advancing slowly northeast. As they did so the German defenders made a risky attack in an effort to spoil the allied advance, cutting through Allied lines in a surprise action at the small town of Mairy-Mannville.