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per the Wichita Eagle:
Fullbacks are disappearing on the college football landscape as the game gets more modern, more flashy, more aerial.
Three yards and a cloud of dust? Power football has gone the way of the hand saw.
But not for Kansan Miles Thomas, a throwback football player from Downs, in north-central Kansas, where he played at Lakeside High.
Thomas is a fullback in the truest sense of the word. He’s built low to the ground – 6-foot, 253 pounds – and he’s usually on the field to do one thing… block.
There’s not much glitz for Thomas, who didn’t rush once for the Gophers in 2014 but did catch six passes.
“I think there will be more opportunities for me this season,” Thomas said. “More plays and different plays to get the ball in my hands.”
http://www.kansas.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/bob-lutz/article31044033.html
Go Gophers!!
Fullbacks are disappearing on the college football landscape as the game gets more modern, more flashy, more aerial.
Three yards and a cloud of dust? Power football has gone the way of the hand saw.
But not for Kansan Miles Thomas, a throwback football player from Downs, in north-central Kansas, where he played at Lakeside High.
Thomas is a fullback in the truest sense of the word. He’s built low to the ground – 6-foot, 253 pounds – and he’s usually on the field to do one thing… block.
There’s not much glitz for Thomas, who didn’t rush once for the Gophers in 2014 but did catch six passes.
“I think there will be more opportunities for me this season,” Thomas said. “More plays and different plays to get the ball in my hands.”
http://www.kansas.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/bob-lutz/article31044033.html
Go Gophers!!
