Britta Natwig Hinze ’04 remembers her grandmother, Dolores Walter Bartlett, used to tell us stories about TCU football great Davey O’Brien ’39 when she knew him as a football player for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Bartlett’s father, Dr. Lewis L. Walter, was the team doctor for the Philadelphia Eagles for nearly 10 years and recalled when the Eagles drafted O’Brien, who had won the Heisman Trophy in 1938 as a Frog senior, in 1939. O’Brien only played in the NFL one season before leaving to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Bartlett passed away at age 84 last year, and while sorting through her grandmother’s belongings, Hinze found Bartlett’s Philadelphia Eagles football scrapbook — and an amazing surprise.

At a game between the Eagles and Chicago Bears on Nov. 19, 1939, in Chicago, Walter had collected all the signatures of the entire Eagle offense, including O’Brien, to bring home to his daughter, who he nicknamed “Sugar.”

Knowing this, O’Brien wrote, “Sugar, you better be good,” next to his signature.

Bartlett treasured it for years in her scrapbook.

Another signature on the page belonged to Drew Ellis ’37, a former TCU player who was drafted by the Eagles in 1937.

Hinze and husband Scott ’02, both TCU season ticket holders, framed the scrapbook pages and shared them with the magazine this fall.

“We continue to be an active part of TCU with our alumni radio show, Fanboy Radio, every Sunday night from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on KTCU’s 88.7 FM and www.fanboyradio.com,” wrote HInze, who is a realtor in Fort Worth and actively involved with the Alpha Delta Pi Alumni Association.