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- Former Husky safety Curtis Williams is being weaned from a ventilator, which has assisted his breathing since his spinal injury during a football game last October. Williams, 23, injured his spinal cord during a helmet-to-helmet collision with Stanford running back Kerry Carter on Oct. 28.
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Former Husky football player Curtis Williams, who was paralyzed below the neck after an injury in the 2000 UW-Stanford game, died of natural causes May 6 at the home of his brother in Fresno, Calif. It is the first death of a student-athlete in UW history due to a sports-related injury.
Williams had sustained damage to the first and second vertebrae at the base of his skull—the most serious non-lethal spinal injury one can suffer—leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. Not only was his dream of playing professional football over; his life was in jeopardy.
May 6, 2002 · Williams died yesterday morning in his brother's Fresno, Calif., home, 18 months after he suffered a spinal cord injury in a game against Stanford that left him paralyzed from the neck down.
May 7, 2002 · Williams, who turned 24 Saturday, suffered a spinal injury Oct. 28, 2000, in a helmet-to-helmet collision in a game at Stanford. While he lay motionless and unable to speak, an...
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May 7, 2002 · Curtis Williams, 24, paralyzed from the neck down while playing football for the University of Washington in October 2000, died Monday at his brother's home in Fresno, Washington athletic...
Williams was hurt in a helmet-to-helmet hit while attempting to tackle Cardinal running back Kerry Carter. He had spinal-cord surgery and was left with no voluntary muscle movement.
May 6, 2002 · Former Washington football player Curtis Williams, paralyzed in a game two years ago, died Monday at his brother’s home in Fresno, Calif. Williams died from complications that arose from...
