Thursday, October 05, 2006

Ouch

Wake-Clemson gets a mention in Dave Revsine's Between the Numbers column on espn.com:

67: The marquee game in the ACC this week, though, involves the biggest surprise team in the conference: Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons' five wins already are more than they totaled in 67 of their 104 years of football. (Italics mine)

1944: With a win over Clemson, Wake would be 6-0 for the first time since coach "Peahead" Walker's team started 7-0 in 1944.
I mention this for no other reason than to use the name "Peahead" in context, although Walker is the source of one of the great football quotes of all time. After being disciplined by the university president for using some offensive language during a game, Walker responded by saying, "Damn to a football coach is like amen to a preacher." Where have all the Peaheads gone?
3: As for Clemson, the Tigers had 3 100-yard rushers in their obliteration of Louisiana Tech last week. That's one more 100-yard rusher than they had in the entire 2004 season, when Reggie Merriweather went over the century mark twice -- with both efforts coming in the final three games of the season.

Here's the link to the article: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=revsine_dave&id=2613804&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab2pos1

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