Gridiron.

The Porterhouse · week 4 · 1987

The long way round: S. Crenshaw Jr. goes for 110

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Shawn Crenshaw Jr. RB
The Porterhouse

S. Crenshaw Jr. was cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday. On this afternoon he had 110 yards, and in Houston, Texas they will have seen it. He is 27, and he has never been described as easy to coach. It is a long way from Houston, Texas, and he did not come the easy way.

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