by olson (2019-07-10 14:19:03)
Edited on 2019-08-03 12:52:39
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Pretty sure they were from a similar era.
One was from PA. The other from NJ.
Both of their last names might need another vowel.
I remember Jvan noting on here last year that John Kondrk lived in his dorm and he never heard him utter a word in the times he had seen him...and that he was a mean looking sob.
I always enjoy reading all the stories olson.
Two defensive linemen slugging it out in the heavyweight division. I can't remember his opponent's name.
Arthroscopic surgery didn't exist in those days, so knee surgery involved cutting to expose the entire knee. The surgery was as traumatic as the injury itself, often more traumatic such that many athletes chose to live with pain and diminished capacity instead of an operation to repair the knee.
Injuries that we fix routinely nowadays were considered somewhere between career threatening and career ending in 1967, especially knee injuries. It is not strange that several of the ND players you listed got hurt and never played again.
Consider the career of Gale Sayers. His return from knee surgery to rush for 1,032 yards in 1969 was considered miraculous at the time; but even while having a good statistical season, it was obvious that he wasn't close to the runner he had been before the injury. Then he played two games in each of the next two seasons and had to retire.
Most returns from knee surgery looked like Sayers' 1970 and 1971 seasons, not his 1969 season.
Ronnie passed away in 2003 at age 47 from cancer.
I remember him well, he was fearsome.
playing against Steve.
but what ended his career in seattle after a few years was a shoulder injury
...Navy has 57 recruits in their current class, including nine (9) three-star recruits.
...from the Oregon court search site is long and distinguished from the 90s onward.