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Grackles · the Iron Jug · 1986

Passwater goes for his second

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Nathaniel Passwater QB
Grackles

Nathaniel Passwater won it in 1979 and is back. Nobody in this building needs reminding how rare that is — most careers do not get one, and the men who get two tend to be the ones nobody argues about afterwards. It did not, in the end, come down to him alone — it never does. But the Grackles won it 32-27, and a fortnight from now nobody will be able to describe this season without describing Sunday.

This feature ran in the paper in the Iron Jug of 1986. The rest of the season is there too.

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