REGISTER FOR FOOTBALL ALUMNI NIGHT

By Dave Pevear, Lowell Sun

LOWELL -- Football is probably never coming back to UMass Lowell. But many of the school's former football players are coming back on Feb. 27 to honor UMass Lowell having once played a game dear to present-day Chancellor Marty Meehan's heart.

The football reunion is part of UMass Lowell's wider effort to bond its alumni anew with their alma mater -- a university unrecognizable to most, it having grown and changed many times during the past few years.

Russ Williams, a former offensive guard and captain of the 1992 team, hopes several hundred former football players will be at the Tsongas Center a week from Friday to swap stories and take bows during a UMass Lowell hockey game versus Vermont.