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Video: 10-Year-Old Leads T-Birds to Victory

The Hills East football team named a local boy with cancer as honorary game captain on Friday.

Posted Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:22 am ET|Updated Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:24 am ET

The Hills East Thunderbirds named James Stanton, a 10-year-old boy with cancer to be the for the team's first home game Friday night.

Stanton got to join the players on the field before the game and was given a T-Birds jersey with his name printed on the back.

Hills East , 49- 28.