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Prospectors · week 15 · 1979

Casey Speight is back, and immediately useful

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Casey Speight RB
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Casey Speight returned from a concussion and put up 30.5 points.

He has 8,103 yards from scrimmage in three seasons, and fifty touchdowns. He has never had a year like it.

He turned twenty-nine this year. He is from Kingston, Jamaica. He is the first man in the building most mornings. The route here: converted from quarterback, which he was not good enough at.

Prospectors, 10-4, and fifteen weeks gone. Solomon Fields is in year two of it. He is out of contract after this.

One more thing: he calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss.

This feature ran in the paper in week 15 of 1979. The rest of the season is there too.

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