Gridiron.

The Porterhouse · week 18 · 1998

The Achilles took something from Nathaniel Pankhurst

Marlene Ostrowski, column

Nathaniel Pankhurst LB
The Porterhouse

Nathaniel Pankhurst is cleared. That is not the same as recovered. He lost 9.0 points of ability and will not get them back.

Two sacks and one interception across four seasons. Three clubs have had him.

He is thirty, out of Kestrel, Montana. He has never been described as easy to coach. The route here: a track man who was talked into it by a coach who never let go. He worked nights at a rendering plant to pay for a truck he never bought, once.

The Porterhouse, 6-10-1, and eighteen weeks gone. Cormac Bombardo is in year twenty-one of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

One more thing: he will not step on the painted logo at midfield.

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