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The Fighting Ostriches · week 11 · 1980

47 touchdowns and counting

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Wilhelm Quarles Jr. TE
The Fighting Ostriches

L. Jawbone found Wilhelm Quarles Jr. 2 times. That is 47 together, and nobody in this league has anything better. They have played 9 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

2,657 yards over four seasons. Forty-seven touchdowns. Sixty-seven games. He got to 777 once. Not this time.

He is twenty-six, out of Verdigris, Kansas. He runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with it. Nobody planned any of it. He was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take.

The club is 7-3. Percy Trubisky is in year three of it.

One more thing: he will not step on the painted logo at midfield.

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