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Third down, eight yards to go. Third quarter. Moeller leading archrival Princeton, 22-10. On first down, Moeller had gained two yards on a running play. On second, a pass had fallen incomplete. Klonne mentally ran through the possible calls for third and eight. Cotta get
the ball out on the perimPter. Some kind of pass. Maybe a screen. Maybe a play-action pass. Something to get outside with a run-pass option. Ah, what the heck. Maybe our best play is to just give Mike the ball and make them tackle him. "46 power," Klonne called. "What?" coach Todd Naumann exclaimed, eyeing Klonne as though he had suddenly sprouted a second head. "I don't know what else to call," Klonne told him. "Besides, I'm not so sure they can stop it." In the huddle, quarterback Ryan Cooper repeated the call. "46 power!" The words echoed in Kamphake's helmet. But the words didn't register. He had been distracted by something in the stands. "What's the play, Grant, what's .the play?" Kamphake asked fullback Grant Crosthwaite after the huddle broke. "46 power," Crosthwaite said, grinning. Two yards into the line of scrimmage, the first Princeton player hit Kamphake. Kamphake carried that tackler - and five more - a total of six more yards. As Kamphake went down, the nose of
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Senior running back Mike Kamphake, trying to gain ground in a recent practice, loses track of how many times he carries the ball for Moeller. He set a school record when he rushed 46 times against Princeton last week. the football was just across the firstdown marker. First and 10. "Wow," Klonne said to himself.
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As senior Mike Kamphake, 18, moves through the hallways at Moeller High School, he carries with him a big, military-green duffel bag. It holds five textbooks - English Literature, Physics, Spanish II, Algebra II and Government & Politics - and two, three-ring binders, five notebooks and folders, a religion book, vocabulary book, pens, calculator and planning book and various odds and ends. The bag weighs 72 pounds. Kamphake puts everything in his "book bag," because he doesn't want to leave anything in his locker. To make
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Mike Kamphake sometimes finds it tough to focus -except when he's carrying the ball.
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