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Centre football players share tales from their years on the field
January 6, 2011 By Leigh Cocanougher
Paul Downs (above, number 22) is one of three Centre football players featured in a recent Kentucky Standard article.
In a recent Kentucky Standard newspaper article, three Centre College football players shares stories from their seasons on the playing field, describing the friendships they have formed and the ways athletics and academics transformed them into men ready to face any challenge.
Centre seniors Paul Downs of Bardstown, Ky.; Tyler Knight of Boston, Ky.; and Kent Simpson of Bardstown, Ky., spoke with Kentucky Standard sports editor Peter W. Zubaty about their childhood experiences playing football, transitioning from high school to college athletes, succeeding in the classroom as well as on the field and what the future holds in store.
“The undergraduate experience at Centre—an academic institution that produces Rhodes Scholars the way Florida turns out first-round NFL draft picks—has been an enriching one for the young men from Bardstown (Downs), Bethlehem (Simpson) and Nelson County (Knight) high schools,” the article says. “With classes sometimes as small as seven people, professors become friends, and even travel along for study abroad.”
To read the full Kentucky Standard article, click here.
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Founded in 1819, Centre College is ranked among the U.S. News top 50 national liberal arts colleges. Forbes magazine ranks Centre 24th among all the nation's colleges and universities and has named Centre No. 1 among all institutions of higher education in the South for two years in a row. Consumers Digest ranks Centre No. 1 in educational value among all U.S. liberal arts colleges. Centre alumni, known for their nation-leading loyalty in annual financial support, include two U.S. vice presidents and two Supreme Court justices. For more, click here.