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<blockquote data-quote="Tommy_Taylor_1972" data-source="post: 999919" data-attributes="member: 6776"><p>I agree that multi-sport athletes, especially football and basketball, use the body mechanics from one sport for the other. I recall in the early 1970's my friend and classmate Meade Sutterfield told me he used his hip movements learned from being a football guard as center on his Sandy Springs GA AA state championship team to move and block out the opposition taller center to defend him and out rebound him. UGA's/Dolphins super bowl champ defensive tackle Bill Stanfield was center on Cairo's state AA championship in the mid-60's. Also, Tech's running back Brent Cunningham was a point guard in the Class C state basketball tournament and used his sense of seeing the court and foot quickness to see the football openings to gain yards. He also lettered in track at Tech. </p><p></p><p>Back in the day, almost every GT athlete was a multi-sport high school letter winner in high school. As a guard on the Tech basketball team, I was a high school track letterman, winning the state mile and two mile and putting the shot and throwing the discus, and playing center field as letterman on the baseball team, as well as MVP on the state Class C basketball championship team. Georgia Tech has had many multi-sport letterwinners, including Whack Hyder who was on a football scholarship and lettered in 4 other other sports (Tech HOF in two), Frank Broyles was a football and basketball letterwinner, Roger Kaiser lettered on the basketball and baseball team, as did Bobby Dews. Rich Yunkus lettered in Basketball and Track. My feeling is that athletes today concentrate solely on one sport too much and could benefit from playing in other sports as teenagers. I think that would also reduce injuries overall in developing the body for various awkward or overused muscle movements.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tommy_Taylor_1972, post: 999919, member: 6776"] I agree that multi-sport athletes, especially football and basketball, use the body mechanics from one sport for the other. I recall in the early 1970's my friend and classmate Meade Sutterfield told me he used his hip movements learned from being a football guard as center on his Sandy Springs GA AA state championship team to move and block out the opposition taller center to defend him and out rebound him. UGA's/Dolphins super bowl champ defensive tackle Bill Stanfield was center on Cairo's state AA championship in the mid-60's. Also, Tech's running back Brent Cunningham was a point guard in the Class C state basketball tournament and used his sense of seeing the court and foot quickness to see the football openings to gain yards. He also lettered in track at Tech. Back in the day, almost every GT athlete was a multi-sport high school letter winner in high school. As a guard on the Tech basketball team, I was a high school track letterman, winning the state mile and two mile and putting the shot and throwing the discus, and playing center field as letterman on the baseball team, as well as MVP on the state Class C basketball championship team. Georgia Tech has had many multi-sport letterwinners, including Whack Hyder who was on a football scholarship and lettered in 4 other other sports (Tech HOF in two), Frank Broyles was a football and basketball letterwinner, Roger Kaiser lettered on the basketball and baseball team, as did Bobby Dews. Rich Yunkus lettered in Basketball and Track. My feeling is that athletes today concentrate solely on one sport too much and could benefit from playing in other sports as teenagers. I think that would also reduce injuries overall in developing the body for various awkward or overused muscle movements. [/QUOTE]
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