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Players who survived theater shooting to meet in Colorado-Colorado St.

Sep 18, 2015 at 3:36a ET

Sep 18, 2015 at 3:36a ET

Colorado State offensive lineman Zack Golditch (left) and Jordan Murphy, who plays for Colorado, will meet on the gridiron Saturday in Denver.

DENVER Zack Golditch and Jordan Murphy have never met. Yet they share a strong connection through football and a tragedy inside a movie complex.

Golditch, a sophomore starting left tackle for Colorado State, was shot in the neck as he sat in an adjacent theater on July 20, 2012, when James Holmes murdered 12 people and tried to kill 70 more during a midnight showing of the Batman movie ''The Dark Knight Rises,'' in a suburb of Denver.