Football: Kinnick will need help from new contributors to repeat

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan – One might think that with the entire offensive line, backfield and receiving corps either graduated or transferred, things might prove difficult for Patrick Kelly and Nile C. Kinnick in its bid to repeat as Far East Division I champions.

So what do the Red Devils do? Find players to be Kelly’s next band of heroes.

Don’t for one second believe that Kelly, the Red Devils’ senior quarterback, is moping about who’s gone, 10th-year Kinnick coach Dan Joley says. Nor are he or his quarterback concerned that the Red Devils are now the team carrying the bull’s-eye on front and back of their jerseys.

“He’s not hanging his head about anything,” Joley said of Kelly, who went 75-for-140 for 1,294 yards and 17 touchdowns for a Red Devils team that went unbeaten for the first time in 22 years and won their first Far East D-I title in school history.

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