Northwestern Football Coach Dies at Age 52
From Times Wire Reports
Northwestern University football coach Randy Walker, 52, died of an apparent heart attack.
No other details of his death were immediately available.
Two months ago, Northwestern gave Walker a four-year extension through the 2011 season.
Walker was coach in 2001 when player Rashidi Wheeler, a graduate of La Verne Damien High, collapsed and died during practice of what was ruled exercise-induced bronchial asthma. The school paid his family millions to end a wrongful-death suit, though his mother had sought a jury trial and Walker’s firing.
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