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Pikemen · week 8 · 2003

Pikemen lose Rafael Crumpacker to an MCL

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Rafael Crumpacker RB
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Rafael Crumpacker walked off under his own power and did not come back. It is an MCL, and it is the rest of the season. It is the second MCL of his career.

4,183 yards over three seasons. Twenty-eight touchdowns. Forty-six games. His best was 1,657. This is not that, yet.

Hollow Rock, Tennessee is where he is from. He is twenty-five. Ask anybody: he is the one the young players actually ask. Nobody planned any of it. He was the son of a man who played eleven years at the same position.

Pikemen are 4-4 through eight weeks. Nick O'Time is in year two of it.

Crumpacker never takes his helmet off between series.

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