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Article: Eli may share Manning name, but QB has own style.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- September 10, 2002
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He looks like Archie and plays like Peyton.
But the third great quarterback in the Manning lineage, rest assured, is not cut from the same cloth that made his father and brother college-football heroes before him.
The tall, slender frame running around on slightly bowed legs in an Ole Miss uniform gives away Eli Manning as the son of the school's most legendary athlete.
Ole Miss chancellor Robert Khayat can't get past the visual similarity.
"They even stand alike," said Khayat, who played on Rebels teams of the 1950s and returned from an NFL career to law school during Archie's heyday of the late 1960s.
Eli's game, on display ...