Gridiron.

Quarrymen · week 4 · 1985

Alligator Arms, and what it costs him

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Rafael Rowntree WR
Quarrymen

Alligator Arms. You can see it from the press box, and Rafael Rowntree has been living with it for 95 games. The club, for context: Carved, quite literally, into the pit face, so three sides are stone and the fourth is a view.

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