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...December. But when Young upset Bush's top-ranked team in an electrifying Rose Bowl game last week, he became sport's No. 1 underdog hero. "I'm just a real blessed guy," says Young, who must decide by Jan. 15 whether to return senior year or enter the NFL If Young picks the pros, he'll face Bush again?for the No.1 draft pick...
...player, and the first time since Bears wideout Chas Gessner and Harvard wideout Carl Morris roamed the league’s stadiums that the Ivies have had a significant chance of taking home the hardware. The Payton Award, which was established in 1987, boasts several future NFL players as recipients including Steve McNair, Brian Westbrook, Brian Finneran, Jamie Martin, John Friesz, and Dave Meggett. Cal Poly defensive end Chris Gocong claimed the Buck Buchanan Award as I-AA’s best defensive player, after a season in which he recorded 19 sacks and 79 tackles. Princeton defensive back...
...England Patriots linebacker Don Davis called upon students to embrace Christianity and think carefully about their decisions in a speech sponsored by Athletes in Action (AIA) in Science Center D yesterday. In a discussion entitled “Defining Moments,” the ten-year National Football League (NFL) veteran spoke to almost 100 students about the various turning points on the road to becoming a three-time Super Bowl Champion. “Defining moments happen to us all—they have no racial bias, no age bias, no gender bias,” Davis said. According...
...junior, Bush will probably bypass his final year of college for the NFL's riches (say goodbye to the inmates, Mom). Because he's barely 6 ft. tall and weighs about 200 lbs., skeptics fear his body won't withstand the NFL's pounding. "No question, size has to be a concern," says an NFL general manager. But several smaller backs have succeeded. "If that guy fails in the NFL," says an NFL college-scouting director, "something is wrong." Bush has sold the league's all-time leading rusher. "Aw, come on," says Emmitt Smith of the critics. "They...
...arguably the National Football League’s biggest story, junior running back Clifton Dawson has begun to assess the prospects of joining his former quarterback on the sport’s biggest stage.Harvard coach Tim Murphy said that he and Dawson have discussed the process of wooing potential NFL suitors, and that the two of them will follow the same approach that got Fitzpatrick noticed following his junior season at Harvard. The two of them will likely put together a highlight reel of Dawson’s most outstanding plays for the Crimson and send it to every NFL...