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Published November 03, 2009 02:28 am - Paying a visit to the variety store... Gone too soon The life of one of the brightest stars — on and off the playing field — in the storied football history of Geneva High School came to an end last week. A Don McCormack column: Former Geneva great passes at 54 DON McCORMACK Star Beacon Paying a visit to the variety store...
Gone too soon The life of one of the brightest stars — on and off the playing field — in the storied football history of Geneva High School came to an end last week. Randy Carter, one of the standout players on Geneva’s Northeastern Conference championship squad of 1972, died after a brief illness last Wednesday in Everett, Wash. He was 54. Carter helped that Geneva team, coached by the late Bob Herpy, a member of the Ashtabula County Football Hall of Fame, to a 9-1 record that fall. A first-team Star Beacon All-Ashtabula County performer, Carter was even more brilliant in the classroom. He was the first winner of the Robert L. Wiese Award when it was presented by the Ashtabula County Touchdown Club in 1972. Carter was an Ivy Leaguer at the collegiate level, moving on to Yale after graduating from Geneva in the spring of 1973. He played both football and rugby for the Bulldogs, earning three varsity football letters as the team’s placekicker. Carter’s most memorable moment at Yale on the football field was a last-second field goal to defeat rival Dartmouth in 1974. He was also a standout performer on the Yale rugby team, being named co-captain twice. Having won the Robert L. Wiese Award at the TD Club banquet in 1972, Carter then became the first young man to double up — he was named the Outstanding College Football Award winner by Gazette Publications at the TD Club banquet in 1975. He is survived by his wife, Kristine, of Arlington, Wash., daughters Meredith and Lindsay, both of Vancouver, Wash., and brother Bill, of Rochester, N.Y., along with his sisters, Carol Prill and Cindy Stevenson, both of whom still reside in Geneva. 
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