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http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/sports-16/1127257142226210.xml&storylist=cleveland

Football player without legs eligible to play
9/20/2005, 7:22 p.m. ET
The Associated Press

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Game officials made a mistake when they kept a high school football player who has no legs from playing last week, the Ohio High School Athletic Association said.

Bobby Martin, a senior at Colonel White High School in Dayton who was born without legs, was told at halftime of Friday's game at Mount Healthy High School in Cincinnati that he could not finish the game.

The officials said Martin was violating a rule that requires players to wear shoes, thigh pads and knee pads. Martin had played in his team's previous three games as a member of the punt return squad, using his arms to move down the field.

"The officials erred, but they erred on the side of caution," said Bob Goldring, an assistant commissioner with the OHSAA. "They did not want to see him get hurt."...

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1. sad......simply sad