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Ernie Caddel, Jr., former Stanford University halfback now with the Detroit Lions, was known as the "blond Antelope," because of his speed and peculiar loping gait. In 1931 he came East with Stanford to play against Dartmouth in the Harvard stadium, and on second play of the game, swung wide around right end for an 80 yard touchdown, in which no Dartmouth man laid a hand on him. He scored three touchdowns, all on long runs, that day and Eastern college coaches, who were in attendance, voted his the best individual performance of the year.
Bob can play either defensive tackle or end. He makes life miserable for opposing quarterbacks and when he operates on the flank, he's equally rough on scatbacks trying to round the corner for yardage.
Looking on his career at lowa State, Hall said, "It's kind of crazy how fast it went." Defenders in the Big 12 might have thought the same thing about him. The rusher scooted past them awfully fast en route to the second-most yards by a Cyclone and an FBS-record 24 straight games with a touchdown.
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