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ELIZABETH CITY, North Carolina - In an effort to reduce the number of concussions for football players, the NCAA moved kickoffs up five yards this season so that there might be more touchbacks and fewer collisions.

Not that Brett Symonds needed any help getting the ball into the end zone.

The Elizabeth City State placekicker, a junior transfer from the College of the Desert and a former University of Hawaii recruit, may have the strongest leg in the CIAA.

Symonds showed it off in Saturday’s home opener, booting the second-half kickoff nearly 10 yards beyond the end zone. His other kickoff went about seven yards into the end zone. No danger of any concussions on either of those unreturnable kicks.

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