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The Fighting Ostriches · week 4 · 1994

hamstring costs Beckett Morrow 4 games

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Beckett Morrow QB
The Fighting Ostriches

There is no good week for this. Beckett Morrow gets 4 games on the shelf with a hamstring. He reads Wrecked on the card, which is exactly the bet everyone made.

The ledger, after seventeen seasons: 32,532 yards, 468 scores. His best was 2,543. This is not that, yet. For five clubs.

He is thirty-seven, out of Tijuana, Mexico. He is the one the young players actually ask. He was the second man taken at his position out of Marchbanks.

The Fighting Ostriches are 4-0 through four weeks. Rico Norwood is in year eleven of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

One more thing: he has never once been photographed smiling on a sideline.

This feature ran in the paper in week 4 of 1994. The rest of the season is there too.

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