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Rutgers at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, Enis was o=cially the second-team tail- back. However, rather than use his wide- outs and fullbacks to send in the plays, Paterno used his two tailbacks. Archie gained 93 yards on 11 rushes, and Enis ran for 145 yards on 15 carries, equaling a feat that Dozier accomplished in 1983 when he began his career with back-to- back 100-yard-plus games against Iowa and Temple. But neither Enis nor Archie had a touchdown in the 59-34 win, in which quarterback Wally Richardson and All-America wideout Bobby Engram teamed up for three touchdowns. "There is absolutely no way Paterno can hide Enis anymore," wrote Jonathan Bom- bulie of The Daily Collegian a>er the game. "He should be the starting tailback. He's just that talented." That never happened in the 1995 season, and the reason was the running and pass receiving versatility of Archie, a talented ;>h-year senior who had the bad luck of being in the same recruiting class as one of Penn State's greatest running backs of all time, Ki-Jana Carter. "[Mike] does a lot of things well… [and] a young guy like Enis hasn't been exposed to everything involved in a complicated system," Paterno told reporters a>er Enis rushed for 145 yards on 25 carries (but no touchdowns) in a 28-25 loss to Ohio State at Beaver Stadium in early October. That would be Enis's last 100-yard game of the season, but in the three years he played before leaving for the NFL, he would tie Carter and Blair Thomas for second in the school record book for most 100-yard rushing games with 17, one behind Warner. Enis is still ;>h in career rushing with 3,256 yards on 565 carries, one spot ahead of Dozier, who ;nished with 3,227 yards on 624 carries in his four-year career. Warner is in second place (behind Evan Royster) with 3,398 yards on 649 carries. With Enis just 676 yards short of Royster's four-year record of 3,932 yards (on 686 carries), its likely he now would be the all-time record-holder if he had stayed at Penn State for his fourth season. Enis was eligible for the NFL because he had spent a year at Kiski Prep a>er graduating from little Mississinawa High School in Union City, Ohio, near the In- diana border and not far from Dayton. And it was Enis's misstep into the NFL in December 1997 that made him virtually a pariah to the Penn State fandom. As the Nittany Lions were preparing for a Citrus Bowl game against Florida, a Har- risburg TV station reported that a sports agent had bought a suit at a local mall for Enis to wear to an ESPN awards show. Enis denied it at ;rst, but just before Christmas, while the team was practicing in Melbourne, Fla., he confessed to Paterno and was sent home. It was a minor NCAA violation. However, the way Enis handled the situation soured the Lion football na- tion, and his name is hardly mentioned these days when fans and the media discuss Penn State's greatest running backs. The Chicago Bears were so impressed by Enis they made him the ;>h overall choice in the NFL Dra>, but he never came close to recapturing his Penn State glory, and a>er a knee injury he was ;nished three years later. He has had an erratic life a>er football, moving from job to job, and from 2010-13 was the head football coach at Bradford High School, near his home- town. According to the professional career website LinkedIn, Enis is now an operations supervisor for Anheuser Busch. Dozier's debut was under more dire cir- cumstances than Enis's. In 1982, while Dozier was enjoying a standout senior year at Kemps;ll High School in Virginia Beach, Va., Penn State won its ;rst national

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