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Millwrights · week 13 · 1977

Trip Kneeldown was not supposed to be here

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Trip Kneeldown QB
Millwrights

165 yards from a man who was cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday. The scouting industry declines to comment. He is 28, and he talks constantly and means about half of it. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across his first season: 1,542 yards from scrimmage, twenty-eight touchdowns, fifteen games.

He is from Bitter Lake, Idaho.

Millwrights are 5-7 through thirteen weeks. Percy Zeller is new.

Kneeldown calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss.

This feature ran in the paper in week 13 of 1977. The rest of the season is there too.

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