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Jewish QB Jake Retzlaff is blazing his own trail at BYU

BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff throws during annual BYU Blue vs. White scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on March 31. The juco transfer is battling to be QB2 for the Cougars this fall.

BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff throws during annual BYU Blue vs. White scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on March 31. The juco transfer is battling to be QB2 for the Cougars this fall. (Ryan Sun, Deseret News)


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PROVO — Samuel L. Spector, leader of Congregation Kol Ami in Salt Lake City, had a quick and witty response when Jake Retzlaff called from Provo a few months ago to let the young rabbi know that he is playing quarterback for BYU and Jewish, a sentence that almost certainly he had never heard uttered before.

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