14 Jul
Oregon football player dies after river trip
A red-shirt freshman on the University of Oregon football team has died after trying to swim the McKenzie River during an inner-tube trip down the river.
It says that most of the party started down the river, but Doxey decided to jump off a bridge.
He swam across the current toward a boat ramp. But, the Lane County sheriff’s office says, he tired and couldn’t hold his head above water.
A fisherman in a drift boat retrieved him and began administering CPR.
He was listed initially in critical condition but died about 8 p.m. at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene.
Doxey was a graduate of Hoover High School in San Diego.
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Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 12:41 am under