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re: Cannon's run question...
Posted on 11/19/10 at 2:40 pm to I-59 Tiger
Posted on 11/19/10 at 2:40 pm to I-59 Tiger
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Remember, Cannon is white and wasn't recruited by Saban. So, a lot of younger people assume he really couldn't be any good.
I'm sure he was awesome and fast as shite. I just have a tough time believing he was running near Olympic-like times. I can't find any actual times results on the internet.
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Posted on 11/19/10 at 2:49 pm to Antonio Moss
A bit more info
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An extraordinary athlete in the mid-20th Century, the legend lives on about Cannon winning a sprint in record time at the SEC Track Championships. He then walked across the field to win the shot put event.
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Posted on 11/19/10 at 3:32 pm to Antonio Moss
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I just have a tough time believing he was running near Olympic-like times. I can't find any actual times results on the internet.
He wasn't. You're dealing with a bunch of Dandy Don like old homers in here
Posted on 11/19/10 at 3:32 pm to Antonio Moss
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I'm sure he was awesome and fast as shite. I just have a tough time believing he was running near Olympic-like times. I can't find any actual times results on the internet.
He didn't lose weight for track, because he threw too, so it would have been "chasing the needle" so to speak, plus he needed the weight for football. An otherwise unattributed track coach famously quipped he could lose 15 (and I hear this sometimes as 20) pounds and win the 100 in the Olympics or gain 15 (again, sometimes 20) pounds and win the shot put at the Olympics.
It may have been an exaggeration, but he was a legitimate track and field star. He also had football speed, and as others have said, he was reportedley very consistent in his times, cleats, sneakers, etc. (Like the story about Trindon running a 4.4 40 in basketball shoes.. fast is fast.)
Posted on 11/19/10 at 3:53 pm to Antonio Moss
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I'm sure he was awesome and fast as shite. I just have a tough time believing he was running near Olympic-like times. I can't find any actual times results on the internet.
He won the SEC in the 100 yard dash. Go to SECSports.com and look it up. No regular running back has done it since. I'm not sure any RB had done it before.
He could have competed in the Olympics in strength events, because he was that strong.
He was the closest thing in CFB to Bo Jackson before the actual Bo Jackson.
He made All-Pro as a RB very early in his career, then blew out his knees, got made TE, and made All-Pro at that position too.
People just see that he's white and from the 50's and make all kinds of assumptions about him, but nobody ever says those same things about Jesse Owens or Jim Brown or Muhammad Ali. Kinda weird, don't you think?
I get that the population of American youth is greater now than it was 50 years ago, but it's not THAT much greater. The best guy out of a million athletes 50 years ago is still going to be pretty damn good out of 2-3 million athletes today--unless human evolution has just been drastically condensed or something.
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