Place-kicker chases dream around the world to Dean

Dean College kicker Long Ding's football odyssey began with an NFL-sponsored clinic in Beijing. (Bill Greene/Globe Staff)

By Marvin Pave

Globe Correspondent / October 22, 2009

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FRANKLIN - His 7,000-mile football odyssey began at a National Football League-sponsored kicking clinic in Beijing in 2006. A year later, Long Ding suited up in pads for the first time in the foothills of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, at the New Hampton School, and his journey has come nearly full circle at Dean College in Franklin. (Full article: 1258 words)