re: A Riddle... impatient forktard edition

Dammit. This is what happens when I walk away for five minutes.

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The stadium is worse than bonkers

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Congratulations to the Second two time winner of A Riddle.

You know the drill... make post, post the two rules and use the correct title... take as much time as you want and make frickbois like JD (and now apparently rig may be considering joining him) cry.

The numbers were a UGA-ified version of an Ottendorf Cipher, also known as a "book cipher" (see: italicized words in prior post). This is usually done by selecting a book, not just having any copy of a book with that title, but the same edition of a book (bibles are a common choice) so that page contents are identical. From there, numbers are used to identify Page > Line > Word position

In this case, Jersey Number (see: "loose fitting" and "folded" as other clues trying to direct to the clothing aspect of the word) was used as the initial key. Because we don't have a book edition, the final year of the player in question was used as the second digit (with leading zeroes omitted), and the last digit referenced which letter from their name (First Last) was to be used.

Example:

Herschel Walker:
34.82.1 = H
34.82.9 = W

As I mentioned in my post earlier, there is of course a chance that the same jersey number could possibly direct me to two players in any given year (offense + defense), but since I was placed on a time crunch, I didn't have the time to figure out who might have shared a jersey number throughout every instance, so I tried to in most cases choose the more recognizable player from that time as well.

IX//XXII
9//22

Larry Munson born: 9/28/1922

That specific game against Clemson played: 9/22/1984


Full Answer key as follows:

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T 8.2.1 (Terrence Edwards)
H 5.92.9 (Garrison Hearst)
E 63.67.12 (Edgar Chandler)

S 12.53.12 (Zeke Bratkowski)
T 12.81.8 (Lindsey Scott)
A 35.1.8 (Verron Haynes)
D 14.4.1 (David Greene)
I 4.98.8 (Champ Bailey)
U 29.2.2 (Burt Jones)
M 73.93.14 (Bernard Williams)

I 67.76.9 (Joel Parrish)
S 50.70.10 (Tommy Lyons)

W 36.13.6 (Bob McWhorter)
O 26.35.2 (John Bond)
R 17.6.2 (Greg Blue)
S 13.68.5 (Jake Scott)
E 33.94.2 (Terrell Davis)

T 62.46.8 (Charley Trippi)
H 31.84.9 (Jeff Sanchez)
A 7.8.2 (Matt Stafford)
N 16.66.4 (Lynn Hughes)

B 45.2.5 (Boss Bailey)
O 76.66.11 (George Patton)
N 39.45.11 (Mike Castronis)
K 36.78.12 (Willie McClendon)
E 3.5.9 (DJ Shockley)
R 17.0.9 (Quincy Carter)
S 44.77.10 (Ben Zambiasi)

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Not sure if I left any other clues unreferenced but will edit if so.

How did herschel and knowshon tie into the answer?