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JOHNNY QUINN was, crazy about habits, his likes and dislikes; tried to who his friends were. I the game, but he didn't have a discover chance. He weighed only 120 pounds found out that his closest friend was and had spindly legs and a thin, deli- Professor Truesdale. Professor Trues- taught psychology. Johnny cate body. The first day he appeared dale on the field with a uniform somebody Quinn was majoring in psychology. asked him who his tailor was, and He spent a good deal of time outside everybody roared. Johnny grinned of class with the professor.

and said nothing. He must have I talked with Truesdale, and I found known how ridiculous he looked in that out things, I'd never given those uniform which was way too big for things much thought before because him, And it must have hurt him, but they didn't go with being an assistant he didn't say a word.

football coach. Now I thought about them.

For some reason Coach Parry kept him on the squad. No one knew why I went to Coach Parry. "How about "Does Johnny Quinn I doubt if oven Parry knew. Yet even it?" I asked. then, Johnny was making an impres- sion on the subconscious mind of the coach and of the rest of us too. None of us would have admitted It.

play against State?"

"Yes," said Parry.

I was glad. I didn't tell Parry why

I was glad, but I felt we'd beat State. We did, And mostly it was due to Johnny was still with us after the

Oh, he first game. More, he played in the the work of Johnny Quinn. first game. That wasn't hard to ex- didn't get the credit. Big Clay Kim- plain, because before the first half was ball, the fullback, and Myles Abel, the over we had run up a score that made right half, got most of the credit. Paxton look like a high school team, They made the touchdowns and they played brilliantly. But Johnny Quinn and Parry began shoving in subs.

At any rate, it was after the first gave them support. You had to ad- game that I began noticing Johnny mit it. You had to recognize he play- and wondering about him. I wanted ed well. His picture was in the even- to find out things without asking ing paper along with Abel's and Kim- Coach Parry. Curiously, I felt that ball's, and that night those two drop- Parry might be embarrassed. Parry ped into Johnny's room and congra-

tulated and thanked him. That meant. was a funny egg.

I'd drawn same conclusions. after more to Johnny, than anything else. the Fayette game. Johnny played in I was there at the time, and when that one too. Left end. And he made they'd gone I said to Johnny: "Well,

By Stanley Cordell

some beautiful tackles. It was incon- Johnny, you're smart. I mean, about gruous a little runt like Johnny Quinn that psychology stuff". bringing down 200-pounders. Once he Johnny looked surprised. Then he scooped up the ball on a fumble and grinned. That grin let down the bars and we talked. He told me how he'd got away for a 15-yard gain.

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He could run. Johnny Quinn could always wanted to play football; how run like a deer. And he had a burn- he'd realised his shortcomings. Then ing love for football. He wanted to he took up psychology and learned play worse than he wanted to do any about compensation. He learned tricks That of human nature. But mostly he thing. That explained a lot.

Parry learned how to be smart, to think on might have explained why didn't drop him, but it wasn't all of his feet.

"There was always a dumbbell on the explanation. There thing more behind it that I didn't un- the opposing team," he said. "When the signals are called this dumbbell derstand. I wanted to find out.

would move his feet and glance in the That's The boys didn't give him much cre- direction a play was going. dit. He seemed so unimportant and how I knew where to head. My tackle insignificant: It didn't seem logical always came as such a surprise that to connect. Johnny Quinn with brilliance the man with the ball was taken un- in a football contest. His appearance awares. Parry couldn't afford to drop wasn't in keeping with the stuff of me, so long as I was producing like which football heroes are made.

that, even though he and the others So I watched Johnny. I watched hated to admit I was any good.” him all through the Southern game. II laughed. What if there didn't kept track and I noticed that he made happen to be a dumbbell on the oppos- more... tackles than any man on the

ing team?"

team: I noticed that there was no lost Johnny looked at me ami slowly motion in the way he played. He never closed an bye. "It's more likely," he appeared, cónfused... When he started

said, "not to find a smart, guy on the he went places and: rot' results.

opposing team." Conch Parry noticed it too.

(Copyright 1988, By The Associated runt was in there, eh?" he said. to me Newspapers). after the game. He grinned,,^as.

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though in apology. It was as though

he hated to admit a little guy like

Johnny Quinn had the stuff that makes

football players.

“Yeah,1⁄2 1. replied. "We'd be smart

to let him play against State."

** Parry looked at me, started to

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was our big game. If a man were al- lowed to play against State he got his swester and his letter and a lot of glory

The State game was two wooks away. I doulded to find out something more about Johnny Quinn if I could, -I inquired into his private life, his

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