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Smelters · week 7 · 1980

175 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Whitfield Gaskin QB
Smelters

W. Gaskin had 175 yards. He was converted from linebacker in his second professional season. He refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It is a long way from Baltimore, Maryland, and he did not come the easy way.

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