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Roughnecks · week 8 · 1994

C. Mancini was not supposed to be here

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Roughnecks

C. Mancini was a track man who was talked into it by a coach who never let go. On this afternoon he had 173 yards, and in Miami, Florida they will have seen it. He is 34, and he is the first man in the building most mornings. It counts the same as anybody else's.

This story ran on the wire in week 8 of 1994. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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