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Boarhounds · week 4 · 1988

Rhett Waddle finds it, in year 4

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Rhett Waddle QB
Boarhounds

Rhett Waddle had 163 yards. He was the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers. He will not step on the painted logo at midfield, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

He has 17,242 yards from scrimmage in seven seasons, and 245 touchdowns. There was a 2,915-yard year in there. This is not it. For two clubs.

Twenty-eight, and Sable, North Dakota before that. Ask anybody: he would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. Before any of it he fixed diesel engines with his uncle.

Boarhounds are 4-0 through four weeks. Oscar Kearse is in year eight of it.

This feature ran in the paper in week 4 of 1988. The rest of the season is there too.

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