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Ironmen · week 4 · 1983

165 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Carter Mancini QB
Ironmen

C. Mancini: 165 yards. He was a track man who was talked into it by a coach who never let go, which the record will now have to accommodate. He carries a chess set on the road and beats everyone, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

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