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Ironmen · week 16 · 1986

Tremaine Lindquist has 143 and a story

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Tremaine Lindquist RB
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Tremaine Lindquist had 143 yards. He was a walk-on at Ozark Wesleyan who did not have a scholarship until his third year. Out of Ozark Wesleyan, which sends one of these to the league about once a decade. The ones who arrive like this tend to know what it cost. That is usually worth something in December.

The ledger, after eight seasons: 11,075 yards, seventy-three scores. There was a 2,200-yard year in there. This is not it. He has done it in three buildings.

He turned twenty-eight this year. He is from Muddy Creek, Kentucky. Ask anybody: he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. In another life he kept bees.

The club is 5-10. Orrin Youngblood is new. There is one year left on the deal.

He is the last man off the field, every week, without exception, and always has.

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