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Copperheads · week 17 · 1978

Tevin Okonkwo returns from the hamstring

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Tevin Okonkwo RB
Copperheads

They got Tevin Okonkwo back. He looked like he never left — 44.0 points.

Across two seasons: 2,212 yards from scrimmage, fifteen touchdowns, twenty-two games. None of the others were this good.

He turned twenty-two this year. He is from Ashfork, Arizona. Around the building he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway. He was a basketball player until he was twenty, and it still shows.

Copperheads, 9-7, and seventeen weeks gone. Reuben Bostick is new.

One more thing: he answers every question in exactly one sentence.

This feature ran in the paper in week 17 of 1978. The rest of the season is there too.

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