FAYETTEVILLE — If Carroll Wayne Harris could have tolerated the big city, he might have become an NFL great.
Instead, the former Arkansas Razorback linebacker, who went by Wayne, played both ends of his football career in more comfortable oil towns — El Dorado and Calgary, Alberta — with a stop at the University of Arkansas in between.
Harris, nicknamed "Thumper" for his sledgehammer tackling style, is a Canadian Football League legend. A CFL Hall of Fame inductee, immortalized on a postage stamp in Canada in 2012 to celebrate the 100th year of the Grey Cup, an inaugural inductee into the Calgary Stampeders’ Wall of Fame, Harris earned it all with his gritty style of play.