sentences:  He also broadcast the Army–Navy Game during the 1940s and '50s, and several Rose Bowl games.Helfer was born in Elrama, Pennsylvania.He played football and basketball at Washington & Jefferson College, and took his first job as a sports reporter for the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" after graduation, also calling the football games of the Pittsburgh Pirates (as they were then called) and Pittsburgh Panthers for radio station WWSW.