February 22nd, 2008
A Story From The Stands - What Have Former Nebraska Football Players Learned From The Game - Smith
THE GO-TO GUY
The new coach at Colorado told the talented blue-chipper from Thornton not to leave his native state and play for Nebraska. “You won’t get to play, Bill McCartney told me,” said Rod Smith, “but I was going to Nebraska because they kept their word to me.”
The talented all-around player who returned twelve punts for touchdowns in high school, packed his stuff into a pickup and a trailer and he and his buddy Marc Munford headed for Lincoln. “The Colorado papers called us turncoats.”
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