(07-09-2016 09:48 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote: (07-09-2016 09:41 AM)emu steve Wrote: (07-09-2016 08:38 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote: Great athlete, good guy, just a terrible football receiver. Hands of S-T-O-N-E. He drove me nuts more than any other player in the history of EMU football.
Guess he was a T&F star playing football...
Renaldo Nehemiah comes to mind...would have preferred Cliff Branch (world class sprinter, U of Colorado and Raiders legend). Just goes to show playing receiver is more than just speed and athleticism, but he tried his best and is a great representative of EMU.
Wow, that you should mention "Skeets". I went to a funeral last December for someone I worked with and Skeets was there. The deceased was a collegiate star at Maryland with Skeets.
It was impressive to see the stars from the great Maryland T&F teams of the mid-70s attend the funeral of their teammate.
The deceased was all-ACC in the long and triple jump and actually followed the career of Donald Scott and indicated to me last summer he thought Scott had a chance at the Olympics.
(the deceased's daughter was a member of the EMU women's T&F team as a graduate student).
I follow T&F some, but the 70s were the glory days of U.S.A. vs. U.S.S.R. and some of the all-time greats including Bob Hayes, and when the Americans ruled the marathon (e.g., Frank Shorter, Bill Rogers, etc.) and, of course, EMU contributed some great track men as well.
I helped him (the deceased) get his daughter to EMU and indicated that EMU has an illustrious history in T&F with the Bob Parks era and moving forward...
His daughter left EMU with a MAC championship ring. :) Sue Park's team won the indoors that year and missed by ONE point of winning the outdoors as well...