01-12-2021, 04:20 PM
(01-12-2021, 03:35 PM)JJJ Wrote:(01-12-2021, 03:19 PM)Spiny_Norman Wrote: There was a time when parents would hold back their athletic kids for a year in school to get bigger, stronger, more mature. John Elway was 19 and a year older than the rest of our class when we enrolled as freshmen. I don't think I ever heard an explanation why that was the case.I could've sworn there was a passage about that in Jason Cole's book, but now I can't find it, so perhaps I was just dreaming.
I don't know if there was a passage in Cole's book about it, but it's in Mark Gonzales' book review:
"It didn’t hurt that after years of playing against older kids, Elway and his twin sister, Jana, a former tennis player at San Jose State, were held back a year in school to physically mature."
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct...story.html
Elway was born June 28, 1960. the cutoff date in California is September 1, so Elway was just a few months older than the maximum age, and was a 19 year old freshman in 1979 at Stanford.
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