No. 5 Brockton tames Fitchburg

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: October 26, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

FITCHBURG -- The thoughts were going through Rashied Jones' mind after he fumbled faster than a Boeing 747.

"Not again," he said. "I did it the first game of the year, I'm not going to do that again."

From his defensive end position, Jones recovered a fumble with 1:15 left to seal his team's 7-0 win over Fitchburg, the top-ranked Division 1 team in Central Mass., before more than 8,000 people at Crocker Stadium.

But Brockton almost didn't do it.

After Jones' fumble gave Fitchburg (6-1) the ball at Fitchburg's 46, Brockton was called for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, then a personal ...

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