1st Down & 100 Years to Go

The Xavier Cordell Crawford Story

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Xavier "X-Man" Crawford is arguably the greatest High School Football player to come out of Memphis Tennessee. He held the record for most rushing yards in Shelby County Tennessee for over twenty years. Clocked at a 4.3 in the Forty Yard Dash, standing a stocky 5'10" and weighing 205 pounds, he was a "beast." Known as "X-Man" the featured running back for the 1985 Trezevant High School football team, he was a living legend. His sophomore record of 2,330 total yards, 32 touchdowns at 232.0 yards per game, still stands as a state of Tennessee record. Xavier won the title of Class 2A Mr. Tennessee Football as a senior in 1987 and finished his prep career with over (500) points, (6,784) rushing yards and (83) touchdowns. Xavier graduated high school as the #1 Football Recruit in the country with over 100 College football scholarship offers.

Xavier remains the only teenage athlete to receive the "key" to the City of Memphis. ESPN revisited X-Man's amazing story in 2011 in an article titled "Thrown for a Loss." Hampered by knee injuries the true potential of his greatness would never be reached. The X-Man fell into depression and back into a drug he'd tried as a child, which was cocaine. Helping prove his undoing was his reckless interracial love relationship with multi-millionaire, Memphis city council woman, Pat Vander Schaaf. He calls the once fiery red-head, 30 years his elder, his soul mate. A man-child, preyed upon by many to gain his football services, in exchange for money while his knees seemed to literally buckle under that pressure. Many years later, sitting in the Shelby County Jail, eventually convicted of robbing and raping an elderly woman, the X-Man was sentenced to 37 years in prison. With four more rape charges pending, the greatest High School Football player in Memphis history could be sentenced to over 100 years behind bars.