From two of the many roads that wind through the University of Richmond’s soon-to-be-leafy campus, the playing surface of Robins Stadium can be spied. If a driver takes a quick glance in the next few days, there may be a guy snapping footballs to an imaginary quarterback in shot-gun formation.
Again and again during the last several months, at Robins Stadium and elsewhere, Alex Light has gone through this lonely routine. He is teaching himself the first, and most important, duty of a center. That’s a position Light did not play in the last four years at Richmond, or the previous four at Salem High School in the Roanoke area.