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Millwrights · week 4 · 1979

Franklin Pemberton is back, and immediately useful

P.J. Thorne, injury desk

Franklin Pemberton RB
Millwrights

Franklin Pemberton returned from a quad after 2 games and logged 104 yards. No visible limitation.

4,533 yards over three seasons. Thirty-nine touchdowns. Fifty-one games. His best was 1,842. This is not that, yet. He has done it in two buildings.

Twenty-nine, and Bellwether, Ohio before that. He is the first man in the building most mornings. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. Before any of it he spent two summers on a crab boat.

Millwrights are 2-2 through four weeks. Percy Zeller is in year two of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

Pemberton calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss.

This feature ran in the paper in week 4 of 1979. The rest of the season is there too.

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