Football: Edgren suited up to resume football season against Kinnick

Senior Douglass Tackney, with ball, and his Robert D. Edgren teammates played flag football in the driving rain against Navy sailors at Misawa for their homecoming game. (Jason Wysong/Special to Stripes)
Senior Douglass Tackney, with ball, and his Robert D. Edgren teammates played flag football in the driving rain against Navy sailors at Misawa for their homecoming game. (Jason Wysong/Special to Stripes)

Football: Edgren suited up to resume football season against Kinnick

by Dave Ornauer
Stars and Stripes

Robert D. Edgren’s football season continues on Friday at Nile C. Kinnick, the Eagles’ first game in three weeks, following the arrival at school of new helmets and pads ordered more than two months ago.

And coaches and players say they could not be happier.

“You could see the team had the spring back in their steps today,” said coach Marcus Thomas on Tuesday, two days before the Eagles were set to board a bus for the 10-hour drive south to Yokosuka Naval Base.

Read more at stripes.com.

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