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Bighorns · week 2 · 1985

Yancy Steele was not supposed to be here

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Yancy Steele QB
Bighorns

Yancy Steele had 157 yards. He was cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday. Out of Bramble Hill, which sends one of these to the league about once a decade. It counts the same as anybody else's.

The ledger, after four seasons: 5,162 yards, seventy-five scores. This is the best of them.

Twenty-five, and Chicago, Illinois before that. Ask anybody: he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway.

Bighorns, 1-1, and two weeks gone. Gideon Adeyemi is in year two of it. There is one year left on the deal.

He never takes his helmet off between series, and always has.

This feature ran in the paper in week 2 of 1985. The rest of the season is there too.

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