The college football career for record-setting Bentley QB Bryant Johnson is over, but the winner of the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston's Swede Nelson Award will still be using his left arm for the Falcons this spring as a pitcher for the baseball team.  Here's Marvin Pave's story from the Boston Globe West (www.boston.com, Jan. 5, 2011).

By Marvin Pave, Globe Correspondent, Boston Globe West, Jan. 5, 2011

Bryant Johnson has not thrown a pitch in competition in nearly five years. But with his record-setting career quarterbacking the Bentley University football program now complete, the former three-sport captain at Milford High will take the pitcher's mound for the Falcons this spring.

Next Thursday night at the Waltham Westin Hotel, Johnson will receive the 66th annual Nils V. Swede Nelson Award from the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston at its annual college football awards night. Four days later, the graduate student will begin preseason workouts with the baseball team.

"When I chose Bentley I planned on playing football and baseball,'' said the 6-foot-1, 205-pound southpaw, who has not played organized baseball since suiting up for Milford's American Legion Post 59 team the summer after his freshman year in college.

"But it was too much of a time commitment to also play baseball, and that's a void I wanted to fill before I left college,'' he said.

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