Forbidden by segregation to compete in an official meet with the state's black champ — a guy everybody called Cornelius Mitchell, who years later would become the first African - American signed by the Washington Redskins, a future Hall of Fame
flanker known as Bobby Mitchell — the two boys from Hot Springs met on a track that had gone to seed and went head - to - head in a series of informal races.
Not exact matches
The difference was that back then he played one position, the Z [also
known as the
flanker, who usually lines up alongside the tight end], so it was easy to zero in on him.»
Perhaps we'll never
know what possessed Bradshaw to call 69 Maximum
Flanker Post when the world had a right to expect Pittsburgh to try only for the first down, the percentage move to keep the ball.