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Roughnecks · the Iron Jug · 1983

Ashworth has everything except this

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Trombone Ashworth DL
Roughnecks

Two All-Pro selections. Six seasons. No Iron Jug. It is the oldest and least interesting kind of hole in a career and it is the only one that gets brought up, every year, by people who have never played. It did not, in the end, come down to him alone — it never does. But the Roughnecks won it 32-20, and a fortnight from now nobody will be able to describe this season without describing Sunday.

This feature ran in the paper in the Iron Jug of 1983. The rest of the season is there too.

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