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Sun Bowl visit to children’s hospital leaves impression on WSU Cougars football players

For a couple of hours on Thursday afternoon, 12 players from the Cougars football team visited with sick children, giving out WSU goody bags and regaling kids and their families with the WSU fight song and some Christmas carols

EL PASO, Texas – Sitting in his hospital bed at the El Paso Children’s Hospital, 9-year-old Jude Simmons looked up from the Star Wars action figure he was holding and watched with interest as half a dozen burly Washington State football players filed into his room.

For a couple of hours on Thursday afternoon, 12 players from the Cougars football team visited with sick children, giving out WSU goody bags and regaling kids and their families with the WSU fight song and some Christmas carols.