Gridiron.

Firebrands · week 8 · 1977

Dominic Steele done for the year

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Dominic Steele RB
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Dominic Steele: broken forearm, the rest of the season. It is the second broken forearm of his career.

The ledger, after his first season: 641 yards, five scores.

Harlow Bend, Louisiana is where he is from. He is twenty-two. Around the building he keeps his own counsel and his own hours. Nobody planned any of it. He was a basketball player until he was twenty, and it still shows. Before any of it he drove a snowplow for the county.

Firebrands, 2-6, and eight weeks gone. Crash Cavanaugh is new.

Reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious.

This feature ran in the paper in week 8 of 1977. The rest of the season is there too.

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