Rockmolder
14 years ago
Ole Miss football player collapses, dies during first day of practice 

By New York Post

University of Mississippi football player Bennie F. Abram died after collapsing during the first day of team workouts, according to reports Saturday.

The team's trainers said Abram, 20, was having respiratory trouble during the training session Friday morning, the school's student newspaper The Daily Mississippian reported.

They administered first aid, called 911, and he was taken by ambulance to Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, according to reports. Abram died at the hospital several hours later at 12:11 p.m local time.

What he was doing prior to collapsing and the cause of his death are under investigation, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., reported. "I believe that he was jogging," Lafayette County coroner Rocky Kennedy told the publication. "I don't know what the exact workout would've entailed."

An autopsy will be performed Saturday, according to reports.

Abram had not shown indications of having a prior condition and he had passed the required tests and physicals necessary to join the team, The Daily Mississippian reported.

Abram was a non-scholarship athlete who transferred to the school last fall and joined the football team as a safety in January, according to The University of Mississippi. He was a junior exercise science major.

"Bennie was a fine young man and a hard worker, Ole Miss Head Football Coach Houston Nutt said in a statement on the schools Web site. He was a great person to be around and a well-mannered young man. His loss is so tragic. Our hearts and prayers go out to the family and all who knew Bennie."

Rockmolder
14 years ago
Marc-Vivien Fo, Miklos Feher, Korey Stringer...

Deaths like these are always tragic. That he was just 20 years old and not even playing for money or something makes it even a tad bit more tragic. Rip.
Nonstopdrivel
14 years ago
That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is he probably died doing what he loved most. Seen from that perspective, he went out the best way possible. To die in the pursuit of one's cherished passion is a luxury reserved to a lucky few.

A life isn't measured by how long it was lived but by how fully it was lived.
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Formo
14 years ago

That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is he probably died doing what he loved most. Seen from that perspective, he went out the best way possible. To die in the pursuit of one's cherished passion is a luxury reserved to a lucky few.

A life isn't measured by how long it was lived but by how fully it was lived.

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:



As a football player that loved the game.. That's exactly how I would want to go. And I don't have any sort of talent.

Yes, it's tragic. But I also agree with Non.
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