![]() ![]() ![]() "Everybody has to play at 100 percent to get that win," Robinson told her. "On a team, everybody depends on everybody else." Noticing Romero's despondency, her coach, Jean Robinson pulled her out of a game Setting aside her ambition of being a highlight-reel player was difficult. Standing just above five feet tall meant that wasn't going to happen. Ligia Romero came to Eastern with dreams of spiking volleyballs down on the opposition. Davis went on to earn a law degree from Harvard University. The following year, he and his partner, Lynn Clapham, won the state’s debate championship. The future lawyer hung up his shoulder pads. ![]() “He said, “Davis, why are you playing football? You should be on the debate team.”” LANSING - As Jack Davis hobbled down the hall at Eastern High School with a football injury on a fall morning in 1954, Thurman Harris, the school’s debate coach, asked him what’d happened. View Gallery: Lansing's Eastern High School through the years ![]()
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