10-17-2017, 02:11 PM
(10-17-2017, 10:40 AM)terry link Wrote:My recollection is fuzzy, but I believe that Kirk Chambers was on the team as a freshman in the fall of 1997 and redshirted. At the end of fall quarter 1997, he went on his two-year mission, so he was gone in 1998 and 1999. He returned in early 2000 and participated in spring practice. Then he was the starter in fall of 2000. So he wasn't really a true freshman starter. But I'm not certain about this.[/quote]
I don't recall a true freshman starter at LT since Whitfield. Buckey was not a starter as a true freshman.
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I've heard Kirk Chambers mentioned a few times as the last true freshman to start on the OL. Is that true? If so, remember that he had a two-year mission first; he was a 19- or 20-year old true freshman (though I am not suggesting that it was not impressive for him to start as a true frosh, even if he was a bit more mature). I wonder when the last time a 17- or 18-year-old true freshman started on the OL. We all know that Bob Whitfield started at LT as a 17-year-old; have there been any since then? Jeff Buckey started as a true frosh, no?
-m.
Huh. Not sure why I thought he played as a true frosh in 1992 (though he was a starter at guard; I was not only talking about frosh starters at LT). But, in response to your post, I went back into the Daily archives to investigate (I was a sportswriter and editor for the Daily back then) and you were right. Remind me never to doubt you...
-m.