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Muskox · week 6 · 1980

Ivan Stanhope finds it, in year 6

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Ivan Stanhope QB
Muskox

Ivan Stanhope was cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday, and this club found him. 104 yards. Remember who was looking. He is 24, and he is the first man in the building most mornings. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across four seasons: 1,791 yards from scrimmage, twenty-three touchdowns, forty-five games. There was a 1,473-yard year in there. This is not it.

He is from Cattaraugus Falls, New York.

Muskox are 1-5 through six weeks. Wendell Doggett is new. The contract runs out in the spring.

Stanhope keeps his father's work gloves in his locker.

This feature ran in the paper in week 6 of 1980. The rest of the season is there too.

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