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Colville football player dies following on-field injury

COLVILLE – Black shirts with a bold No. 35 on the back were worn all around Yep Kanum Park Saturday, April 10. At exactly noon, the somber silence of the people gathered there was broken by a united prayer.

That same moment, Dale Martin-an 18-year-old Colville High School senior-was scheduled to be taken off life support at Providence Mount Carmel Hospital.

Martin, a running back and defensive end on the football team, suffered a brain injury late in the third quarter of an April 1 game. He collapsed on the field and was taken in an ambulance to the hospital, where according to sources close t...

 

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