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    Cancer took his leg. Carson Fox wouldn't let it steal his football dreams.

    LOS ANGELES — He bends and grips the laces of the football, entering a unique lunge the moment before he snaps the ball between his legs. Los Alamitos' Carson Fox walks with a prosthesis on his left leg, extending above the knee. It can't bend and lock efficiently — a problem, since that's how snappers generate power to hike the ball. There's no instruction manual for this. He's just had to ...
    by Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times Nov 12, 2022 6 minutes
    Los Alamitos High football long snapper Carson Fox on Nov. 9, 2022, in Los Alamitos, California.

    LOS ANGELES — He bends and grips the laces of the football, entering a unique lunge the moment before he snaps the ball between his legs.

    Los Alamitos' Carson Fox walks with a prosthesis on his left leg, extending above the knee. It can't bend and lock efficiently — a problem, since that's how snappers generate power to hike the ball. There's no instruction manual for this. He's just had to mess around with a football in the backyard to figure this out.

    So, on Friday nights at short snapper for one of the best teams in the Southern Section, the junior props his prosthesis straight out at an angle. He plants his left heel on the ground, points his toes to the sky and leans most of his weight on his right leg. As he thrusts the ball, his right leg locks.

    And the snaps, coach Ray Fenton said, are impeccable.

    "The position he gets in to snap the ball, I can't do that," Fenton said. "But

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