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Interesting fact about the only two Milton alum to play in the NFL - both played for the Seahawks, and both were named "Dave" and had a lat name that began with "Kr-" (the other was defensive lineman Dave Krayfield).
Andrew McKillop wrote:Lakeland College also improbably produced a longtime NFL veteran. Can anybody name this RB/TE?
I swear I did not Google this...is it Pat Curran? I remember looking this up a long time ago when my "highly-acclaimed" high school football career earned me a 'recruiting' letter to play football at Lakeland.
Mark L. Ford wrote:Quarterbacks Frank Ryan of Cleveland and Charley Johnson of St. Louis were both skilled in the use of the slide rule. By the end of the 1970s, however, the electronic calculator made the slide rule obsolete.
Damnit Mark, you beat me to it. I was just going to make the exact same joke, but my examples were going to be Frank Ryan and Virgil Carter.
Sorry-- as the old saying goes, great minds think alike.
Interesting stuff, and I'd never heard of it before. In your narrative, you noted that to make up for there being 11-minute quarters instead of 15-minute quarters, the press reported that "4/15ths of the averaged statistic was added to the final number". But if they were playing eight of those 11-minute quarters (four on Friday, four on Saturday) I'd figure that the stats would have had to have been adjusted from 88 minutes to 60 minutes, so they should have subtracted three-tenths (18/60ths or 3/10), so that if a guy rushed 100 yards in 88 minutes, it was an average of 70 yards for 60 minutes. I can't figure out why they had 11-minute quarters anyway, other than to give the fans something more than a 30-minute game.
Andrew McKillop wrote:Lakeland College also improbably produced a longtime NFL veteran. Can anybody name this RB/TE?
At first, I was thinking of the community college with the same name that's right near my home. From 1982-91, it served as the training camp for the Browns, since Art Modell lived right nearby. After one year there, Belichick's control-freak image took hold, moving the camp to the team's then-new complex where it remains today.
Andrew McKillop wrote:Lakeland College also improbably produced a longtime NFL veteran. Can anybody name this RB/TE?
I swear I did not Google this...is it Pat Curran? I remember looking this up a long time ago when my "highly-acclaimed" high school football career earned me a 'recruiting' letter to play football at Lakeland.
You're right! Lakeland still casts a wide net when recruiting. I once saw their scouts looking for players at an amateur adult league baseball game.
Interesting stuff, and I'd never heard of it before. In your narrative, you noted that to make up for there being 11-minute quarters instead of 15-minute quarters, the press reported that "4/15ths of the averaged statistic was added to the final number". But if they were playing eight of those 11-minute quarters (four on Friday, four on Saturday) I'd figure that the stats would have had to have been adjusted from 88 minutes to 60 minutes, so they should have subtracted three-tenths (18/60ths or 3/10), so that if a guy rushed 100 yards in 88 minutes, it was an average of 70 yards for 60 minutes. I can't figure out why they had 11-minute quarters anyway, other than to give the fans something more than a 30-minute game.
Your arithmetic makes a lot sense and is more consistent with the idea of two games actually being one. But you can't expect too much logic from schools that both scheduled their homecoming games against each other on the same day.
