Gridiron.

Firebrands · week 3 · 1981

H. Whistleman to Franklin Okonkwo, again

Ines Okonkwo, numbers desk

Franklin Okonkwo WR
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H. Whistleman threw 2 touchdowns to Franklin Okonkwo, who has now caught 25 from him. They have played 3 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

The ledger, after five seasons: 2,784 yards, twenty-five scores. He has never had a year like it.

He turned twenty-six this year. He is from Sable, North Dakota. He is the one the young players actually ask. Nobody planned any of it. He was rugby until he was nineteen, and he tackles like it.

Firebrands are 2-1 through three weeks. Crash Cavanaugh is in year four of it. There is one year left on the deal.

He refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer, and always has.

This feature ran in the paper in week 3 of 1981. The rest of the season is there too.

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