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American FootballSep 5, 2023 · Tue, September 5th 2023 at 6:00 PM. Updated Fri, November 10th 2023 at 12:53 PM. 4. VIEW ALL PHOTOS. The Abercrombie shares a new sign of hope for Ben's recovery after being paralyzed during...
Dec 3, 2021 · Ben Abercrombie, a former Harvard football player, was paralyzed in 2017 and returned to campus in 2019 to finish his degree. He is also working hard to regain his mobility and independence with the help of his family, coaches, and therapists.
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Hoover, Alabama is a sprawling, hilly suburb of 85,000, ten miles outside Birmingham. People smile and wave out of habit. An Uber driver cheerfully describes fender benders as “a nice way to meet new people.” The town, according to Don H. Hulin, Hoover High’s principal, “centers around the school.” Everyone is invested in the success of the high sc...
They called him “Badgercrombie.” That was Ben’s locker room nickname at Harvard, bestowed by a senior player. It pays homage to Tyrann Matthieu, a Louisiana State player known for tenacity—despite his small size. Like Matthieu, Ben’s teammates claimed he resembled a badger, fearless and ferocious. But the real significance of the moniker is the fac...
Ben wasn’t supposed to be on the field when it happened. He traveled to University of Rhode Island expecting mostly to play on special teams; during kickoffs, punt returns, and field goals. But then starting safety Zachary J. Miller ’19 went down with an injury. Minutes later, his replacement, Cole M. Thompson ’19, left the game for the same reason...
Spinal cord injuries like Ben’s are fairly rare in football. But his debilitating accident comes in the middle of a fraught national conversation about the future of the sport. After all, the injury was “something that was not caused by poor technique on his part,” as Murphy says. The play was completely textbook. Ben played by the rules, the same ...
“Ben says he doesn’t remember it, but we remember it vividly: Ben opened his eyes and saw us, heard our voices,” Marty says. The Abercrombies didn’t quite know what to expect when they sprinted into their son’s room in the Rhode Island Hospital, car left running directly in front of the entrance. They only knew he was alive. “A lot of people that h...
Jan 20, 2023 · Advertisement. Hoover, Alabama's Ben Abercrombie is facing unfathomable obstacles, and he's closing in on an amazing achievement after being paralyzed from the neck down for the last five years: He's 18 months from obtaining his economics degree from Harvard! It was 2017 when Ben was paralyzed making a tackle in his first game at Harvard.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Ben Abercrombie is always thinking about what's next. His life at Harvard started two years ago as a freshman defensive back on the football team. While trying to make his first tackle in his first game, he suffered a severe spinal cord injury. A hit he says he made countless times, but the result of this one was much different.
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Jan 20, 2023 · Hoover, Alabama’s Ben Abercrombie is facing unfathomable obstacles, and he’s closing in on an amazing achievement after being paralyzed from the neck down for the last five years: He’s 18...
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Jan 5, 2018 · Ben Abercrombie's freshman year on the Harvard football team was expected to be one of promise and potential.Abercrombie earned playing time in his very firs...
