🏈 Crazy thing happened today

[PhillyGirl]

Not in the same years Cotton was there in 1986 and was from New Jersey not Syracuse
Clark Cotton

Guy I met is originally from Buffalo, not Syracuse.

 

[psychojoe]

@PhillyGirl I don't know how tall you are, but Cotton Clark was 6'1" per the roster, and the gentleman in the picture looks to be substantially taller than that. He was mainly a RB/DB.

 

[PhillyGirl]

I'm 5'3. My boyfriend is 6'3 and is exactly a head taller

I'm wondering if the terminology of "wide receiver" is complicating matters, like how he identified then/how he was used versus how WRs are identified now.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Gary Martin?

This is gonna drive me bonkers. Too star struck to get a name ..

 

[PhillyGirl]

Also he didn't really have an accent. Just general American.

 

[psychojoe]

The term WR does make it harder. Hard to tell exactly how tall he is from the picture, but at least 6'3". That would not help much with today's players, but an end (or any player) that tall wasn't common in 1962. We may have narrowed it down a bit.

 

[RollllTide!]

Yea there was no wide receivers in 62. They were a tight end or end.

Gary Martin could be him, but he was from Dothan AL and he was a half back from 60 through 63. He was 5'10 Sure looks like him

 

[We All Bleed Crimson]

What about the 2nd guy to the right of Namath (in pic of bench that RollTide! posted). Dental similarity? Is it #87?

 

[psychojoe]

87 was Dale Layton, younger brother of the late Doug Layton, a broadcasting legend. Dale is from Sylacauga.

 

[RollllTide!]

Hey @PhillyGirl this is a lot of fun. I will keep looking, but I believe your last picture is on target. There is just not a lot of internet data from that era.

 

[PhillyGirl]

See I'm wondering if he WAS originally from NY but moved down for scholarship opportunities/offers. It wasn't unheard of then for a guy to move to play for a high school close by/in-state to a school who wanted him.

 

[PhillyGirl]

I appreciate all of the help, y'all.

 

[RollllTide!]

No players registered from Buffalo either.

 

[planomateo]

No players registered from Buffalo either.

@PhillyGirl mentioned it earlier in the thread, perhaps he was born in Buffalo but moved to somewhere prior to enrollment skewing the hometown information. An example would be he could be born in Buffalo, but his parents moved to Alabama when he was 7 years old.

 

[Bamabww]

@PhillyGirl how's the Emerald Isle?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

@PhillyGirl mentioned it earlier in the thread, perhaps he was born in Buffalo but moved to somewhere prior to enrollment skewing the hometown information. An example would be he could be born in Buffalo, but his parents moved to Alabama when he was 7 years old.

Maybe his Dad worked at the Buffalo Rock bottling facility...