A pair of University of Connecticut football players stopped by Washington Elementary School in town Friday to talk to the school children about the importance of education, and wound up playing a pickup game of basketball - with a football.
Chandler Whitmer, UConn's starting quarterback, and Yawin Smallwood, the school's starting middle linebacker, appeared as part of a program by the Heisman Trophy Trust to present a reading grant to the elementary school.
While they were there, Whitmer and Smallwood engaged in a contest to see who could be the first to throw a football through a basketball hoop in the school's gym.
After more than a half dozen tries, the linebacker beat the quarterback.
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