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Football’s Ryland Kicks His Way to a Scholarship

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The Lebanon, Pa. booted game-winning kicks against Purdue and Illinois

Video Interview.

YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) – A junior soccer player joins his high school football team and eventually ends up walking on to a Division I football team. Coach calls upon this player in the middle of a pressure packed situation needing to make a play to win "the big game" for his team. He delivers the win and his team presents him with a scholarship.

Sounds like a great Hollywood script, right? No way could it happen in real life some might say.