For the last three seasons, San Jose State linebacker Frank Ginda was the guy who delivered the hits.
On Friday, he absorbed one -- a huge one -- when his Dodge Dart was t-boned by an oncoming car while stopped at an intersection in downtown San Jose.
Ginda and his girlfriend were off to get frozen yogurt at about 8 p.m. and were waiting to take a right turn from southbound 7th Street onto Margaret Street. At that point a silver van heading in the opposite direction sped through the red light into the intersection, struck a car traveling westbound at an estimated 40 mph and sent it into the driver's side of Ginda's car.