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W
hen Fatorma Mulbah gave Penn
State his verbal commitment last
June, he was still "brand new" to the
sport of football by his own admis-
sion.
For Big Ten o=ensive linemen, that's
scary.
At 6-foot-3, 275 pounds, Mulbah's
sizable frame is brimming with the
potential of a player who doesn't have
nearly the same experience as some of
his peers bound for Division I college
football.
"He's still very raw," Susquehanna
Township coach Joe Headen said.
"There's still so much for him to learn,
and that's what all the college coaches
liked."
Mulbah grew up in Liberia, and,
a>er moving to Harrisburg, Pa., didn't
pick football up until his freshman
year of high school, when he played on
Central Dauphin East's freshman
team.
Originally, Headen remembered,
Mulbah had wanted to be home-
schooled. But football helped him as-
similate into American teenage
culture, as did an a=ection for basket-
ball and the Philadelphia 76ers.
A>er his family found a home in
Susquehanna Township, Mulbah
steadily transformed into the player
who accumulated 10 sacks, 19 tackles
for loss and a pair of forced fumbles in
11 games for the Indians, who er
