Gridiron.

Firebrands · week 10 · 1985

150 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Firebrands

There is a version of H. Gundersen's life where none of this happens. He was found at a regional combine by a scout whose flight had been cancelled. Instead: 150 yards. Two of them found the end zone, in game 9 of his season. It counts the same as anybody else's.

This story ran on the wire in week 10 of 1985. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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