Walter Camp 2006: For Utley, Life's Meant to Be Lived
New Haven Register › November 06, 2007
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The meeting Saturday morning was borne of one man's hope and another's determination, a partnership so theoretical with promise that Mike Utley is certain he will walk off Ford Field in Detroit tomorrow. "If not tomorrow, then the next day," said Utley, the Walter Camp Football Foundation Man of the Year.
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Walter Camp 2006: For Utley, Life's Meant to Be Lived
Utley, a talented guard for the Detroit Lions from 1989-91, has been confined to a wheelchair since he fractured the sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae in his spine in an NFL game against the Los Angeles Rams on Nov. 17, 1991. He has been searching for Dr. Bryan Hains ever since, if not by name specifically, then for what he represents.
"I want out of this chair," Utley said. "I need him. I need science."Hains. an assistant professor of neurology at Yale who never met Utley prior to Saturday morning, is working on the recovery of locomotive function for those afflicted with spinal cord injury, using a drug called phenytoin. He represents hope to Utley, who, in turn, supplies the determination. Who can tell ... the mee...See the full content of this document
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