The Names Of The Game
January, 1987
The 1986 football season became a successful one for me when I discovered at the outset that Rice University had in its keep a freshman running back named Halie Selassie Washington, Jr.As a collector of football names, I'm only too aware that a name can make the player. Could Doak Walker, for instance, have been anything but brilliant in his years at SMU, being the only Doak there ever was, had been or, perhaps, would be? How could Bronko Nagurski have failed to ravage countless enemy trenches i...
