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Former ENMU Greyhound Featured on ESPN Web Site
It’s not often that an eastern New Mexico resident is featured in national news media—it’s even rarer for a Floyd native to get national attention, but that’s exactly what happened to former Floyd football standout and former Eastern New Mexico Greyhound Fide Davalos. The former Bronco running back was contacted by an ESPN.com writer recently, and included in the story titled, “Eight-man football players still overcoming little-school stigma,” something that Fide knows well. “I guess (the writer) started looking through the Internet, and he came across a lot of the national records and saw that my name was on there a couple of times,” Davalos said. While at Floyd, the spread back accumulated several national 6-man records, including most touchdowns in a game, rushing yards in a game and rushing yards in a season. Davalos also helped lead the Broncos to an undefeated state championship run in his junior year in 2001. The mark that Davalos left in New Mexico 6-man football, as well as his transition to the Division II college game made the former Bronco a perfect fit for the ESPN story. “(The attention is) pretty nice,” Davalos said. “I was actually pretty flattered. It is ESPN, and it gets read by a lot of people. I’m just a small town kid and all of a sudden it’s going to come out on ESPN. I thought that was pretty incredible.”
