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Who said UConn was just a basketball school?

By Mary Buckheit
Page 2

Friday, November 9, 2007

I grew up running around the University of Connecticut campus, chasing after my big brother, a 1993 UConn grad. I was a 10-year-old chicken wing the first time I was wowed by the big, white marshmallow dome of Gampel Pavilion. I'm not sure I knew UConn even had a football team back then, but I did know it had a field, the grass slab in the cold shadows between the upper parking lot and the basketball arena where my brother and his roommates would kick field goals and throw the Nerf football (a ...

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