
08-29-2004, 07:51 AM
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If King is the No. 1 skill player in the state this year, Harriton's Callahan Bright appears to be the commonwealth's top lineman.
Bright is 6-2, 315 pounds, and is getting the call from just about everyone: Florida State, Louisiana State, Miami of Florida, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Southern Cal (although we must confess we do not know what time it was when Carroll dialed him up).
Midstate sports fans might remember Bright less as an ornery defensive tackle than as an ornery heavyweight wrestler.
As a sophomore, Bright barely made the weight limit of 277 pounds for the PIAA Wrestling Championships, then proceeded to throw several sizable wrestlers, including eventual PIAA champion Tyler Rees, off the dasher boards at Giant Center.
That particular tactic didn't help Bright, then at Glen Mills, a whole lot. He lost both to Rees and eventual two-time bronze medalist Zach Sheaffer of Cumberland Valley, and that was the end of his wrestling career.
No matter. Bright eventually was transferred back to his home district of Harriton, a Philadelphia mainline school that was home to the son of Eagles head coach Andy Reid, and he has flourished in football.
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