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Ironmen · week 3 · 1980

Ellis Petrossian had this date circled, whatever he says

Marlene Ostrowski, column

Ellis Petrossian QB
Ironmen

Ellis Petrossian put 76 on the Custodians, who decided at some point that they could do without him. Everybody is very calm about it. Two of them found the end zone. The fixture comes round again next year.

The ledger, after four seasons: 3,007 yards, forty-eight scores. He got to 1,451 once. Not this time. Two of those shirts belong to somebody else now.

Thirty-one, and Cinderbrook, Pennsylvania before that. He is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful. He was a track man who was talked into it by a coach who never let go.

The club is 3-0. Knuckles Yelverton is in year three of it.

He carries a chess set on the road and beats everyone, and always has.

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