I remember the stories, while growing up in Pine Bluff, of how the fabled Zebras of the 1920s-30s were built not just with local boys, but also with sudden “move-ins” of families, thanks to the area paper mills and railroad industry. Pine Bluff in those years had teams of national renown, including one that drubbed the supposed nation's No. 1 team, Steubenville, Ohio, 68-0 in a dream match one afternoon in December.
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