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Vulcans · week 5 · 2002

Marquez Fumbleton returns the favour

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Marquez Fumbleton QB
Vulcans

112 yards for Marquez Fumbleton, against the club that did not want him. We did. He is 26 now, which was most of the argument at the time. The fixture comes round again next year.

The ledger, after six seasons: 7,658 yards, 112 scores. His best was 2,086. This is not that, yet. Two of those shirts belong to somebody else now.

He is from Bellwether, Ohio. He is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. He was the son of a man who played eleven years at the same position.

The club is 2-3. Herb Garden is in year eleven of it.

One more thing: he reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious.

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