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Copperheads · the Iron Jug · 2002

Vance has everything except this

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Xavier Vance QB
Copperheads

One MVP. One All-Pro selection. Twelve seasons. No Iron Jug. It is the oldest and least interesting kind of hole in a career and it is the only one that gets brought up, every year, by people who have never played. It did not, in the end, come down to him alone — it never does. But the Copperheads won it 30-10, and a fortnight from now nobody will be able to describe this season without describing Sunday.

This feature ran in the paper in the Iron Jug of 2002. The rest of the season is there too.

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