Game of My Life Virginia Tech Hokies: Memorable Stories of Hokie Football and Basketball
By Mike Harris and Frank Beamer
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Carroll Dale, later a fixture with the Green Bay Packers, dovearms outstretchedto haul in a crucial two-point conversion in a 1957 game against the University of Richmond. Les Henson shot from the baselinethe other baselineas the clock neared zero against Florida State in 1980. Chris Smith went well beyond the "double-double" standard for points and rebounds. How about 30 and 31 against Marshall in 1959? Corey Moore made life miserable for Clemson quarterback Brandon Streeter one night in 1999. Bruce Smith did the same for Duke quarterback Ben Bennett in 1983. The Hokies’ Jim Pyne, meanwhile, made sure Syracuse’s Kevin Mitchell didn’t do the same to Tech quarterback Maurice DeShazo in 1993. Carlos Dixon, Mike Imoh, Andre Davis, Dell Curry, Bryan Still, Don Strock, Bryan Randallall the Tech greats from the gridiron and hardwoodare in these pages, including coach Frank Beamer. Join thousands of Virginia Tech fans in remembering these cherished stories. For the athletes within, these truly were the games of their lives.
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Mike Harris
Mike Harris lives on the beach in Cocoa Beach, Florida. He has a Master’s Degree in Counseling from a Christian university and worked in the field as a crisis counselor for over fifteen years. Having sought to balance his perception of life through several careers and participation in five different sports, he is an avid seeker of balance in the Christian life, as well. His passion is to identify God in the common links of life, those hallowed threads which weave all things together.
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