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St. Frances, a private Catholic high school in the Buffalo suburb of Hamburg, where he was New York's Gatorade Player of the Year in 2011. Despite starting just two games in his redshirt sophomore season of 2014, he led the team in rushing with 152 more yards than starter Bill Belton. Lynch was expected to exceed that per- formance as the starter in 2015, but by midseason he was playing behind true freshman sensation Saquon Barkley and had only 55 carries for 282 yards. Lynch transferred to Nevada for the 2016 season and hardly played, getting the ball just eight times for 29 yards. Quarterback Michael O'Connor of Ot- tawa was in the same 2014 recruiting class as Trace McSorley. O'Connor had played high school football for Ottawa's Ashbury College, a private high school for boys and girls. He transferred to Baylor Prep School in Chattanooga, Tenn., and then to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. O'Connor returned to Canada in 2015, enrolling at the University of British Co- lumbia in Vancouver, and he did so well that the Toronto Argonauts took him in the third round of the 2019 draft with the 20th pick overall. He saw practically no action as one of three reserve quarter- backs until the Argos' last two games. Daniel Joseph never developed into a starter at Penn State after arriving as a Ri- vals.com three-star prospect. He was born and raised in the Toronto suburb of Brampton but made his name as a three- time letterman and senior captain at Lake Forest Academy, north of Chicago. After redshirting in 2016, Joseph was a backup for three years, making 29 tackles and five sacks. As for Jamie Barres, after leaving Penn State he served as an assistant coach at Wake Forest and UCF and also for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. For the past seven years, he has been the head coach at his alma mater, the University of Ottawa. He still keeps in contact with Spider Cald- well, as well as former player turned as- sistant coach Terry Smith and others in Penn State's athletic department. Barres returns to campus occasionally, and as Giftopoulos said after the Fiesta Bowl, that's not cheap. It's $$$ Canadian. ■ !&## %'&&&)## ##&$' %!"(#+&)!%)*'+ No. 37 in Lou Prato's book - , Autographed copies available via louprato@comcast.net or through Lou Prato & Associates at 814-954-5171 Price: $16.95 plus shipping, handling and tax where applicable Also available with autograph: Lou's book "We Are Penn State: The Remarkable Journey of the 2012 Nittany Lions" Price: $19.95 plus shipping and tax where applicable T H E C L A S S O F 2 0 2 1 >>

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