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Quarrymen · week 4 · 1989

The Vulcans get a good look at Oscar Ratliff

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Oscar Ratliff QB
Quarrymen

Oscar Ratliff had 208 yards against the Vulcans, who used to employ him. He says almost nothing and is listened to anyway, so nobody expects him to say much about it. The fixture comes round again next year.

He has 16,734 yards from scrimmage in eleven seasons, and 216 touchdowns. His best was 3,132. This is not that, yet. Two of those shirts belong to somebody else now.

Belfast, Northern Ireland is where he is from. He is thirty-two. He was the highest-rated recruit his state had produced in a decade.

The club is 2-2. Yusuf Larue is in year twelve of it.

One more thing: he never takes his helmet off between series.

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