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INDIANAPOLIS – The latest recruit to the Butler football team can do it all. Runs, throws, kicks.
Granted, he does not know the rules of football. And he weighs 55 pounds.
Robert Shaffer is 8. He has a rare disease. He has a rare spirit, too, and it is that spirit that is infusing the Bulldogs.
“I mean, this kid’s been through more than almost any of us can imagine,” kicker Drew Bevelhimer said. “He’s always full of energy, he’s always bouncing off the walls, he’s doing something crazy.