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Vulcans · week 9 · 1983

Whitfield Gaskin beats the Smelters to it

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Whitfield Gaskin QB
Vulcans

109 yards for Whitfield Gaskin, against the club that did not want him. We did. He has never been described as easy to coach, so nobody expects him to say much about it. The fixture comes round again next year.

He has 13,937 yards from scrimmage in seven seasons, and 214 touchdowns. His best was 2,265. This is not that, yet. For two clubs.

Baltimore, Maryland is where he is from. He is twenty-nine. Nobody planned any of it. He was converted from linebacker in his second professional season.

Vulcans, 3-5, and nine weeks gone. Zane Larue is in year six of it.

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

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