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Vulcans · week 3 · 1990

Thatcher Kearse II was not supposed to be here

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Thatcher Kearse II QB
Vulcans

Thatcher Kearse II was an academic transfer who arrived at Lake Chandler to study engineering, and this club found him. 127 yards. Remember who was looking. Two of them found the end zone, in game 3 of his season. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across thirteen seasons: 18,950 yards from scrimmage, 285 touchdowns, 193 games. His best was 2,496. This is not that, yet. Two of those shirts belong to somebody else now.

He turned thirty-four this year. He is from Tijuana, Mexico. Around the building he is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful.

Vulcans are 0-3 through three weeks. Percy Okonkwo is in year five of it. There is one year left on the deal.

Has a rule about not reading anything written about him, which he breaks.

This feature ran in the paper in week 3 of 1990. The rest of the season is there too.

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