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Monday, February 15, 1988 THE GAMECOCK 5 (iSll
Crack kills
> officials say |HH
By The Associated Press t :
A hiah school football star who
Saturday after swallowing several [
chunks of the cocaine derivative
crack, authorities said.
Prince George's County, Md.,
police said Rico Leroy Marshall, 18,
swallowed the crack just before being ^
stopped about 1:30 a.m. on a Capitol
Heights, Md., street known as a
heavy drug-trafficking area. t
When officers confronted Mar- L
shall, they found no evidence of drug | :
possession and made no arrest, police
^ said.
P Marshall, of Gler \rden, Md., died
about two to four hours later at .
Prince George's Hospital Center, ^3Sr,
hospital officials said. |> - .' 3.
Marshall confided to a friend that ~ ' /- "
he had swallowed about six chunks
of the drug in order to avoid being j
arrested for drug possession, police i '
said'
Eric Knight, who coached Mar- *^^^2
shall at Forcstville, said he was told . *
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by a friend of Marshall's that Mar- ,? " * f
shall returned home after his en- **?' >
counter with police, complained of
dizziness, and then went into ,, ?>**"*
convulsions.
An ambulance was then summoned,
and Marshall was rushed to the
hospital where he died. _ . .
Marshall's body was taken to the LJYlVltlg tC
state medical examiner in Baltimore, Lady Gamecock
where an autopsy will be conducted. pany lost their 1
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Ex-Gamecock pra
Editor's note: This is the last in a Dunham said
series on former Gamecock football any sport can (
players. experience.
By RITA COSBY "If you live ar
Staff writer and learn to run ;
Earl Dunham, who played running can only benefit
back for USC in the 1940s, said he Tat Vella, wl
has seen marked improvements with back, was Dunhj
football over the years. He said he taV
i"The players are better now that he has not i
A overall. They are taught better skills football game sii
and eat better food," he said. "Not many
"Sports were my life. I played honestly," he sa
them all year-round ? football, Vella said the i
basketball, baseball and in the sum- knit" in the 194
mer and spring breaks, I'd miss them strategies ha\
like crazy," he said. sophisticated am
He remembers "Big Thursday," "Today, they
when USC took on Clemson at the quick' attitude State
Fairgrounds. touchdown, etc.
"I was on such a high when we "We had i
beat them," he said. philosophy ?
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playing football or block, etc. We couldn't run out of
)nly be a positive the pocket as a quarterback or they'd
have a talk with us later. Now you see
id play by the rules them do this all the time," he said,
/our life this way, it He said more discipline existed
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gUys can say that said.
id. On the other hand, "just getting
campus was "closer- by" against Clemson was out of the
Os and that football ordinary.
/e become more Vella said the Tigers didn't provide
i classified. much competition.
have such a 'do it "We handled them 100 percent of
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he said.
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"I think we're getting tough again
and not being pushovers anymore.
Everyone is starting to respect us,"
Vella said.
Vella said football "made a name"
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Vella coached at USC for two .. _
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