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Muskox · week 8 · 1983

one game out, 26.0 points in

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Chip Firstdown QB
Muskox

They got Chip Firstdown back. He looked like he never left — 26.0 points.

He has 9,604 yards from scrimmage in five seasons, and 128 touchdowns. His best was 2,294. This is not that, yet.

He is twenty-six, out of Miami, Florida. Around the building he runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with it. Nobody planned any of it. He was the highest-rated recruit his state had produced in a decade.

Muskox, 1-7, and eight weeks gone. Wendell Doggett is in year three of it.

Calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss.

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