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OrangeAfroMan

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Best #98
« on: August 24, 2018, 08:00:36 PM »
This is probably the toughest one since the OL guys in the 70s......have at it!
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2018, 08:29:38 PM »
probably should vote Harmon, but the RBs have had enough fun with RB numbers

Lawrence Taylor?  if you cornsider the NFL, sure

I'm going Wistrom.  

A two-time first-team All-American, Wistrom became Nebraska's fourth Lombardi Award winner as the nation's top lineman following the 1997 season. Wistrom, who holds the school record for tackles for loss.  two-time Big 12 Defensive Player-of-the-Year A third-team All-American as a sophomore.

Wistrom was a two-time first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American and became the 13th Husker to win the NCAA's highest honor, the NCAA Top Eight Award, in 1997. He also earned the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame Postgraduate Scholarship following his senior campaign and was the Big 12 Male Athlete of the Year for the 1997-98 season.
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2018, 09:37:09 PM »
Tom Harmon
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2018, 09:45:25 PM »
No Devin Gardner?
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2018, 09:46:03 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on August 24, 2018, 09:37:09 PM
Tom Harmon
Doesn't that cut against your Jake Long over Red Grange argument?
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2018, 09:50:14 PM »
Quote from: ELA on August 24, 2018, 09:45:25 PM
No Devin Gardner?
Brady Hoke and Borges ruined him. He was super talented man. What a waste of talent.
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2018, 11:46:37 PM »
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2018, 10:42:10 AM »
Quote from: ELA on August 24, 2018, 09:46:03 PM
Doesn't that cut against your Jake Long over Red Grange argument?
yup. But I'm a homer.
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2018, 12:23:16 PM »
Taylor attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a team captain,[11]and wore No. 98. Originally recruited as a defensive lineman, Taylor switched to linebacker before the 1979 season.[12] He had 16 sacks in his final year there (1980),[1] and set numerous defensive records. He was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American and the Atlantic Coast ConferencePlayer of the Year in 1980.[5] While there the coaching staff marveled at his intense, reckless style of play. "As a freshman playing on special teams, he'd jump a good six or seven feet in the air to block a punt, then land on the back of his neck", said North Carolina assistant coach Bobby Cale. "He was reckless, just reckless."[1] UNC later retired Taylor's jersey.[13][not in citation give

Sounds like he was good at the college level.  Again, name recognition is how I usually have voted.
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« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2018, 05:11:44 PM »
And he loved coke!
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2018, 05:33:20 PM »
Did we ever finish the Helmet exercise from the last off season?
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2018, 05:43:26 PM »
Not really, it got kind of messy.  
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2018, 06:02:07 PM »
From his wiki page:

In his final college football game, Harmon led the Wolverines to a 40–0 victory over Ohio State, scoring three rushing touchdowns, two passing touchdowns, four extra points, intercepting three passes, and punting three times for an average of 50 yards. In a display of sportsmanship and appreciation, the Ohio State fans in Columbus gave Harmon a standing ovation at game's end.[46] No other Wolverine player has been so honored, before or since.
At the end of the 1940 season, Harmon won numerous awards, including the following:
  • On November 25, 1940, the Maxwell Memorial Club announced that Harmon had been chosen as the winner of the Maxwell Award as "the nation's No. 1 football player for 1940".[47]
  • On November 28, 1940, Harmon was announced as the winner of the Heisman Trophy as the country's outstanding college football player with a record count of 1,303 votes.[48]
  • On December 10, 1940, Harmon was named the male athlete of the year across all sports in annual polling of sports experts conducted by the Associated Press. Harmon received 147 points in the poll, nearly tripling the points received by runner-up Hank Greenberg.[49]
  • Harmon was also a unanimous All-American, receiving first-team honors from the All-America Board, the Associated Press, Collier's Weekly, the International News Service, Liberty magazine, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, Newsweek, the Sporting News, and the United Press.[50]
  • In mid-December 1940, Harmon was unanimously selected as the most valuable player in the Big Ten Conference.[51]
  • Harmon and backfield teammate Forest Evashevski, described as Michigan's "two-man gang", were both selected by conference coaches for the third consecutive year as first-team players on the Associated Press All-Big Ten Conference team.[52]
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Re: Best #98
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2018, 06:06:12 PM »
Quote from: ELA on August 24, 2018, 09:45:25 PM
No Devin Gardner?
Thinking about him really bums me out. Had he been born five years later...
Poor, damn Devin Gardner.
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