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Jack Bahen, WR from early '60's was from Cumberland, as was Phil Geatz from mid-50's. There were others. Western Maryland was very good in football in 50's-60's. Chuck Foreman was from Frederick. We might have had somebody from Hagerstown. Can't remember now. U-MD built some powerful teams in...

I think David Olivo was supposed to be highly touted coming in. I guess he did not end up that. I never saw him play that I remember. Who started that '68 Alabama game that was a rare national broadcast for us at the time? You remember they planned to play Ted at TE in some situations as a way...

Tony Cline was from Indiana. We recruited from Western Maryland (Cumberland), thru northern W.Va. (Wheeling, Weirton), Western PA, northern Ohio, thru northern Indiana. Blue collar industrial America, plus steel mills, mines, etc. Also western, upstate NY.

See my edited original post. Tony died last year.

Actually, those late '60's Raiders teams liked players from Florida schools, like Fred Biletnikoff from FSU and Hewritt Dixon from FAMU. I was pretty well aware of the other Florida schools, I followed them all although I was only a fan of UM. My HS coaches were mostly former FSU guys.

Did anybody else notice? I searched and didn't see any posts. An all-time great from the early '60's, DT Dan Conners, died a few weeks ago. (April 28, 2019). He was drafted in the second round by the Raiders in '64 I believe. He became a fixture as their Middle LB for eleven seasons, making...