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Anybody know what position he played, and how good he was. Just curious. . . .
And grateful. . . .
“Freeman got the name as a freshman at Stanford University. The lanky star end from Fargo High arrived in California with a four-year football scholarship and a sharp sense of humor -- both of which proved critical to his survival. "I went from outstanding player of the year to setting a record at Stanford for the most minutes not played in four years," he says with the distinctive flat vowels of the Dakotas still discernible in his voice.
The other players were bigger, tougher, faster. Freeman's entire college football career lasted a grand total of 10 seconds. "I'm the highest paid student-athlete in NCAA history -- on a per second basis," he adds with a grin.“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar...Jan14.html
(10-08-2025, 01:00 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:
Anybody know what position he played, and how good he was. Just curious. . . .
And grateful. . . .
“Freeman got the name as a freshman at Stanford University. The lanky star end from Fargo High arrived in California with a four-year football scholarship and a sharp sense of humor -- both of which proved critical to his survival. "I went from outstanding player of the year to setting a record at Stanford for the most minutes not played in four years," he says with the distinctive flat vowels of the Dakotas still discernible in his voice.
The other players were bigger, tougher, faster. Freeman's entire college football career lasted a grand total of 10 seconds. "I'm the highest paid student-athlete in NCAA history -- on a per second basis," he adds with a grin.“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar...Jan14.html
Eric
"the older we get the better we were"
