Article: UW POSITION-BY-POSITION: RUNNING BACKS Captain copes without spotlight Former starter McCullough knows Dayne is the star Series: UW Position-By-Position, another in a series

Running with the football is Carl McCullough's game, something at which he is very good.

This time, he decided to stand firm.

Yes, running would have been the easy thing for the fifth-year senior from St. Paul, Minn., to do after Ron Dayne burst onto the scene last year at the University of Wisconsin.

Carl McCullough was the Badgers' Ron Dayne when the real Ron Dayne was just a twinkle in a lot of recruiters' eyes. Big, strong and physical were the adjectives used to describe McCullough's bruising style of carrying the football.

Sound familiar?

In 1995, McCullough rushed 236 times for 1,038 yards, making him only the third sophomore in Badgers history to run for more than 1,000 yards. The ...

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