With Brutality: Stanaway Strong-Arming Life at 72 08:02 11/10/2016 With Brutality: Stanaway Strong-Arming Life at 72 By: James Retarides Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. It was disappointing news. The results of his physical read “4-F, unfit for military service” due to a nagging knee injury that still plagued him years after he damaged it playing sandlot football. The year was 1967 and the military was drafting 50,000 men per month. War raged in Vietnam and the U.S. Army had just violated an unwritten rule of engagement: they told Steve Stanaway he wasn’t good enough. Three days later, Stanaway decided to enter the Most Physically Fit Man in Virginia contest and not only did he win, he dominated, taking first place in four of the seven events. He showed them. Such stories about Stanaway seem too many to mention. There was the time another armwrestler challenged him and Stanaway brought him a gift-wrapped pin-pad. Then there was that time when he read a newspaper