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When Jake Olson heard his coach, Clay Helton, calling his name late in Southern California’s game Saturday afternoon against Western Michigan, he was caught a little bit by surprise. Olson, as much of the college-football-watching world now knows, is different from other football players, uniquely different. He has been blind since age 12, having lost both his eyes to retinal cancer. He had his left eye removed when he was 10 months old. When the cancer returned in 2009, doctors told his parents the only way to keep the it from spreading was to remove the right eye..At first, I thought, ‘Wow, how cool, I’m going to get to watch a practice,’ ” Olson said Monday on the phone. “I never dreamed that I would meet the players, be in the middle of their pre and post-practice huddles and then travel with them to a game. Never.”

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When Jake Olson heard his coach, Clay Helton, calling his name late in Southern California’s game Saturday afternoon against Western Michigan, he was caught a little bit by surprise. At first, I thought, ‘Wow, how cool, I’m going to get to watch a practice,’ ” Olson said Monday on the phone. “I never dreamed that I would meet the players, be in the middle of their pre and post-practice huddles and then travel with them to a game. Never.”

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When Jake Olson heard his coach, Clay Helton, calling his name late in Southern California’s game Saturday afternoon against Western Michigan, he was caught a little bit by surprise.
“Jake,” Helton said, “are you ready?”
Pete Carroll was then the coach at USC. The Olsons had a neighbor who taught at USC and they knew a number of players on the team. When word reached Carroll that there was a 12-year-old boy who had grown up loving the Trojans who was about to lose his sight, he got in touch with Jake’s parents, Brian and Cindy Olson.

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Western Michigan was a year ago under Coach P.J. Fleck, but with Fleck now at Minnesota and his replacement, Lester, trying to fill some key holes in his lineup, fourth-ranked USC was expected to win the opener in the L.A. Coliseum with ease. It didn’t turn out that way. Western Michigan was willing to stand down on an extra point attempt but not in the game.

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