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Your favorite Buckeyes no one talks about

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calibuck said:
but where was Warfield in that list? I think we only threw to one person per season in those days........
"When you pass, three things can happen, and two of them are bad" -WW Hayes..
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Warfield led in '62 with 8 catches, and in '63 with 22. In '61 Charles Bryant led the team with 15.
 
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Rob Kelly

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Sorry - One more I forgot, and I know he is recent, but I have never understood why Tim Anderson is not mentioned more when talking about the great talent on the NC team. He was a rock in the middle, and I think that the D line may have been the the most important component of the NC team ( I am a bit buzzed right now, so forgive my love of the D trenches).:biggrin:

This is what gives me a great feeling about this year's team.
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Jim Tyrer

Jim Tyrer from Newark played '58-'60. He co-captained with Herbie's father, got some All American mention, All Big Ten. Was the #1 draft choice of the Bears but chose to go with the Dallas Texans in the one year old AFL (or whatever it was called at the time.)

Hank Stram was the coach and after a year or so the Texans morphed into the Kansas City Chiefs. Tyrer started at left tackle from the get-go, was All-Pro for 8-9 years, played in SBowl 1 (lost to Green Bay) and SB 4 (beat Minnesota, tOSU's Jim Marshall and his Purple People Eaters DLine.) Jim had as much an impact on the pros as did Jim Parker before him or John Hick and others after. Only Orlando Pace had more tools after.

As Hank mentioned in the late '80sk, Jim would have been a cinch Hall of Famer, except three years after he retired after a final season with the Redskins, for some reason he popped his cork and shot his wife and killed himself in their KCity bedroom in mid-80. Nobody seems to know why. I would still argue that notwithstanding that, he deserves to be in the Hall, because one should be judged on their career in the Pros and not on what may have happened negatively in their lives after that.

Jim and I grew up a block apart in Newark and played sandlot football together when we were in elementary school. He was President of our senior class, homecoming king, and you would never meet a more humble, self-effacing giant of a man in your life. I had the pleasure of being equipment manager for the Newark team for his entire career there, as he led the Wildcats to a Central Ohio League Championship before going to play for Woody. In the late '70s I met Woody while he was still coach and asked him about Tyrer. He made two comments..."He was one of the very best linemen that ever played for me"...and "Boy, that fellow sure knew how to make money through investments after he turned pro"

A couple years ago, being a retired chamber of commerce CEO, I wrote the Canton chamber and asked for the name and mailing address of an executive with the Hall that I could write to on the subject of Jim and the Hall. I did so to the name they provided, I think he was the PR guy or marketing head, or some such. I asked if he could have any influence on reopeing the Tyrer HOF case after the passage of 25 years. Never had the courtesy of an answer from the SOB. :(

Go Bucks!
 
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Cie Grant: Immortalized for pressuring Dorsey as an LB and for singing Carmen Ohio, but largely forgotten for his selflessness in playing a season out of position as a CB on a 7-5 team.

Also, am I really the first to mention the man who made the Buckeyes "proud in Ann Arbor, Mi%$^&*# on the football field" in 2001: Jonathan Wells?

Finally, I vigorously support the prior nominations of the grossly underrated Jeff Graham and Marcus Marek.
 
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