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Smelters · week 5 · 1990

Tevin Crenshaw Jr. is back, and immediately useful

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Tevin Crenshaw Jr. TE
Smelters

Tevin Crenshaw Jr. returned from a quad and put up 15.8 points.

Across three seasons: 2,102 yards from scrimmage, eleven touchdowns, forty-nine games. He got to 726 once. Not this time.

Coalport, Alabama is where he is from. He is twenty-five. He is the first man in the building most mornings. He was found at a regional combine by a scout whose flight had been cancelled.

Smelters, 3-2, and five weeks gone. Pierce Vance is in year two of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

One more thing: he reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious.

This feature ran in the paper in week 5 of 1990. The rest of the season is there too.

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