My frosh year Rudy-esque Patulski story.

A classmate in my dorm had been a pretty decent high school running back. He earned some all LA city high school honors, but was not D1 scholarship material. But he wanted to try to walk on. So he did the walk-on tryouts. I’d guess he was about 5’10”, 185 lbs. Solid and muscular.

At the end of the tryout period there was a scrimmage with the varsity. He returned from the practice and we all asked him how he did.

He said that his first play was against the starting defense. His number was called for a pitch sweep around Patulski’s end. He said he caught the pitch and then looked to turn up field. All he saw was Patulski in his face.

He said he didn’t remember much of the rest of the scrimmage.