Revisiting the Legend of Brian Davis

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The master plan at Pitt, looking ahead to the 1985 season, was to build college football's ultimate backfield.

Brian Davis, the Parade Magazine National High School co-Player of the Year, would line up behind a man-eating shark of a fullback named Craig "Ironhead" Heyward.

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Revisiting the Legend of Brian Davis

Panthers coach Foge Fazio even toyed with the idea of incorporating some wishbone plays, using Davis, Heyward and another talented back named Charles Gladman.

"That would have been interesting," Fazio says.

It wasn't meant to be.

Heyward established himself as a collegiate star only after missing the '85 season because of a disciplinary suspension. He went on ...

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