Two Player Stories

On the eve of the start of the 2005 season, Zach Dollar and Ryan Hall both appeared in news articles yesterday.

Zach Dollar

Zach Dollar wasn't feeling all that great about his situation on the Colgate
University football team during his first two years with the Raiders.He was
listed as a junior varsity player, but he wasn't getting any time at all at
defensive end, a position that he excelled in at Justin-Siena High School."I've
always had a goal to be a great football player and I think that's what has kept
me driven," Dollar said. "I think just through determination I kept working
hard."Coach Dick Biddle and his staff took notice of Dollar, a three-time
All-Napa County performer and Justin-Siena's two-time Defensive MVP, when he was
on the Raiders' scout team, which faced the first-team offense, in practice.

Ryan Hall

He’s going to start along the offensive line for the Colgate Raiders when they
begin their 2005 football campaign Saturday afternoon in Hamilton against
Central Connecticut State. And as Ryan Hall can make most scales groan with his
300 pounds, give or take a cheese dog, the young man is well placed.
Now,
he’ll be focused on the Blue Devils, who’ll come to town with both 55 lettermen
and 16 starters from last year’s outfit that went 8-2. Of that, you can be
certain because Hall, a senior, was one of those glorious Raiders who fashioned
that 15-1 record two seasons ago and went all the way to the Division I-AA title
game in Chattanooga.