As the countdown to the first Wisconsin football game of the season continues, Badger of Honor is taking a look at Badgers by the numbers, checking in on a different Badger or Badgers players who wore the number corresponding with the remaining days until the Badgers head to Texas to take on the Alabama Crimson Tide Saturday, Sept. 5.
Next up in our countdown, signifying 21 days until college football is back, is Rufus Ferguson.
A Miami, Florida, native, Ferguson played running back at UW from 1970-1972.
Ferguson — nicknamed “Roadrunner” — totaled 2,814 career rushing yards, which at the time was second to only Alan Ameche in the school record books.