Top 10 White Rushers of ’07 D1A

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Chad Hall, Air Force 211 1415 6.7 58 14

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Luke Lippincott, Nevada 257 1380 5.4 32 15

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Michael Desormeaux, La Lafayette 188 1141 6.1 86 7

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Jacob Hester, LSU 204 1017 5.0 87 11

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Dan LeFevour, C Michigan 155 1008 6.5 43 17

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Jake Locker, Washington 172 986 5.7 47 13

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Stephen McGee, Texas A&M 173 858 5.0 65 5

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Tim Tebow, Florida 194 838 4.3 25 22

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Matt Grothe, S Florida 184 832 4.5 80 10

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Jake Sharp, Kansas 138 788 5.7 25 7

I'll try to get some other stat categories up in the next couple of days.
 

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Nice list, GREAT job. Thanks
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What is it about Franco-American scramblers?

Desormeaux
LeFevour
Tebow (French?)

Plus you could probably add in Hester, since he's white and from Louisiana (almost guaranteed French blood there). I looked up Grothe on ancestry.com, and it's north German, possibly Dutch. Pretty close to France as well.

Bubby Brister, Jake Delhomme, Bobby Hebert, Terry Bradshaw, and Stefan Lefors are other guys that came from Lousiana or have a French name. Lefors was a really good scrambling QB for Louisville a few years ago, who probably would be a starter in the NFL with more size and arm strength. Mark Brunell is another scrambling QB of possible French ancestry. Even Fran(cis) Tarkenton has a first name French in origin.

Just a coincidence, or is there something about the French that make them better scramblers?
 
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Gi-15 said:
lol. Tebow is not a french name BTW

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_name_Tebow_Italian

The name Tebow is an anglicized [sic] version of the Flemish name Tibaut. The Tibauts came from what is today Bruges Belgium to the New Amsterdam Colony in the early 17th century. The name was anglicized to the present form (Tebow) sometime after the English coopted the colony in the later part of the same century. The French name Thibault is also a version of the original Frankish name.

So it's either Flemish or French in origin.Edited by: FieldThrower
 

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FieldThrower said:
Gi-15 said:
lol. Tebow is not a french name BTW

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_name_Tebow_Italian

The name Tebow is an anglicized [sic] version of the Flemish name Tibaut. The Tibauts came from what is today Bruges Belgium to the New Amsterdam Colony in the early 17th century. The name was anglicized to the present form (Tebow) sometime after the English coopted the colony in the later part of the same century. The French name Thibault is also a version of the original Frankish name.

So it's either Flemish or French in origin.


This is all true. My maternal grandmother was a Thibault, pronounced Tebow. When I first heard of Tim Tebow a couple years ago, I assumed his name was spelled T-h-i-b-a-u-l-t.

It's kinda cool to think the Heisman winner may be my cousin.
 

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Fieldthrower, Bradshaw is a British name thats for sure! I've come across Hesters here in England but Jacob looks more French than British to me (maybe being a bit stereotypical there). Brunell is like Hester, it can be either French or British. Probably because a lot of English people have Norman (French) ancestors from the Norman invasion of 1066.
 
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TheEnglishman said:
Fieldthrower, Bradshaw is a British name thats for sure! I've come across Hesters here in England but Jacob looks more French than British to me (maybe being a bit stereotypical there). Brunell is like Hester, it can be either French or British. Probably because a lot of English people have Norman (French) ancestors from the Norman invasion of 1066.

Beyond names, I think any white person with roots in the old Confederacy has some French roots, especially those living in Louisiana or the Gulf Coast. The United States bought most of the area from France anyway (Louisiana Purchase).

Many "English" sounding in the States names are anglicized forms of French. Anyway, French are basically a mix of the Gauls and the Franks, Germano-Celtics just like folks in the British Isles. The only difference really is the heavier amount of Mediterranean influence. That's probably why the Anglo-Celtics got along well with the Franco-Gauls in the South. Germans and other Nordics settled North of the Ohio & Potomac (notably New Amsterdam/York, Pennsylvania, and New Sweden/Jersey).
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