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Position: | Running back | ||||||||||
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Born: | Petersburg, Virginia, U.S. | June 26, 1959||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||
Weight: | 217 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||||
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High school: | Seventy-First (Fayetteville, North Carolina) | ||||||||||
College: | Kansas | ||||||||||
Undrafted: | 1981 | ||||||||||
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