Andrew Ross to UNT

[eulesseagle]

Andrew Ross

By: Houlton Schools

Date: July 14, 2006

Houlton, Maine- Houlton, Maine running back Andrew Ross has signed a scholarship to play for the Mean Green of UNT as announced today.

Ross led the Caribous in his Sophmore, Junior and Senior years in rushing with a total of 5,874 yards.

According to Jim Larkins, his high school coach, Ross not only excelled in the classroom but was the team captain in his Senior year. The 2,645 yeards he gained last year is a state record. He also caught 12 passes for 215 yards and was 14 of 25 passing for 187 yards. Larkins said that Ross was not highly recruited after suffering one minor fracture to his right arm, in his Junior year, playing hockey against the Junior French National Team in Lyons, France.

Larkins said that Ross' size of 5'2" and 125 pounds was not encouraging for major colleges to recruit him because of possible durability and injury factors. Even though he runs the 40 in 4.1 and the 100 yards in 9.98 no colleges offered him any full full rides.

His class mates call him Speedy Gonzales.

After he gets the ball he is really hard to see and is compared to former Dallas Cowboy Tony Dorsett in his ability to cut in and out of trouble.

In his Freshman year he lost his left arm in a snowmobile accident. Ross' biometric left arm, according to Ross is 100% most of the time. One antidote that Ross tells is when they were playing a game in Lewiston (Maine), in his Junior year, he was carrying the ball in his left arm and the arm malfunctioned and the ball exploded and he was still able to carry a six inch piece of pigskin 55 yards for a touchdown. He has had to have his hand removed a couple of other times from linemen's face mask when the fingers jam, in the winter.

Andrew's great grandfather was one of the Munchkins in the Wizard of Oz and his sister has appeared on the Littlest Groom.

Ross is the tallest of his family at 5'2". His father and mother are both 4'9" and his sister is 4'7". Bill Ross, Andrew's father still holds the the record in Austrailia for being tossed 17' 9" in a dwarf toss in Melbourn in 1979.

[pollock]

I call BS until I see a link.

Edit: nevermind. I just read the second half. hehe.

Edited July 14, 2006 by pollock

[Stan R]

I call BS until I see a link.

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ya think? biometric arm?

[bigrobdsp]

that would be awsome to see a defender grab the prosthetic arm of a running back and rip it off. I would pay money for a scan of a crowd if that happened.

[SilverEagle]

Where in hell did this come from?

[UNTLifer]

I had read the following on Rivals back in January.

One antidote that Ross tells is when they were playing a game in Lewiston (Maine), in his Junior year, he was carrying the ball in his left arm and the arm malfunctioned and the ball exploded and he was still able to carry a six inch piece of pigskin 55 yards for a touchdown. He has had to have his hand removed a couple of other times from linemen's face mask when the fingers jam, in the winter.

[medpilot21]

That's just wrong, man... getting our hopes up like that!!! Damn funny, but wrong, wrong, wrong...

GMG!!!

[Green92]

Nice Friday post. Enjoyed it.

[eulesseagle]

This was not as good as the Coke Boy......

But a good break from all the trash talk and other conversations.

(for those of you still trying to figure out if this is true......well.....no)

[Baby Arm!]

When he uses the biometric arm does it make that cool na-na-na-na-na sound like the Six Million Dollar Man?

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

Where in hell did this come from?

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It is off season, there is nothing else to talk about...