A Real Heavyweight Wide Receiver

Zack Cable didn't want to wonder. Didn't want to graduate from college with an itch he never scratched.
That's why Cable, a freshman heavyweight rower at Dartmouth, has taken a different kind of plunge and is giving college football a try.
The 6-foot-7ish, 205-pound Cable played football as a freshman at Buckingham Browne and Nichols in Cambridge, Mass., but then saw his gridiron career sidetracked for the next two years by a broken ankle and a partially torn ligament in his elbow. Although he enjoyed success in basketball (he was all-league on the hardwood as a sophomore and captain as a senior) and crew (varsity second boat as a junior, first boat and captain as a senior), he never got football out of his blood. And so two games into his senior year, he decided to give the game another shot. But after a couple of weeks of practice and with the realization there were just a few games left, he consulted with the school athletic director and chose to hang up his cleats to be ready (and healthy) for the basketball season.
Now, with the blessing of crew coach Buzz Congram, Cable is finally going to give football a shot. Explained Cable in an email: "I want to play football here because I regret not playing in high school for whatever reason ... and because I never got the opportunity to see if I could be good."
Teevens is intrigued by Cable, who played varsity lacrosse at BBN as a freshman and sophomore.
"He's a real good athlete," the coach said. "He's kind of like (freshman wide receiver) Eric Paul but taller. He looked good off the drills. I know the guys are talking about him.
"With Paul (6-4), Ryan Fuselier (6-5) and (Cable), we could have some very tall receivers that would be hard to deal with." ...

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