How true. Then again, the head slap, Deacon's signature move, was legal then. Still, he had a ton of sacks and it would be interesting to see how many he would've ended up w/.
It's kinda like in basketball, where Hakeem Olajuwon is the all time leader in blocked shots, but it wasn't a recorded stat in the days of guys like Bill Russell, who probably had twice as many blocks as Olajuwon.