Gridiron.

Firebrands · week 16 · 1977

The long way round: T. Nakamura goes for 147

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Firebrands

T. Nakamura was the son of a man who played eleven years at the same position. On this afternoon he had 147 yards, and in Coalport, Alabama they will have seen it. He is 22, and he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway. It is a long way from Coalport, Alabama, and he did not come the easy way.

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