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Fitzgerald focuses on continuing Walker's work

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

EVANSTON, Ill. -- The way Pat Fitzgerald looks at it, in death as in life, Randy Walker continues to coach. Barely one month has passed since Walker, the Northwestern football coach, died suddenly at 52. Fitzgerald, his successor, spoke as softly as his raspy South Side foghorn allowed as he recounted staying up through the night, awakening players with phone calls to tell them their lives had been shattered. "It just became more and more real every time I hung up the phone with one of my play ...

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