After attending Marshall in Huntington, West Virginia, the past two years, new Tulane punter Alec Clark admits he still has not gotten used to the New Orleans humidity that makes him sweat the second he walks out to practice.

On the flip side, his presence has allowed coach Jon Sumrall to sweat much less than he would have otherwise.

Clark, from just outside Perth, Australia, transferred in April to replace Sydney native Will Karoll, who departed for UCLA near the end of spring drills. Nearly left in the lurch, Sumrall hopes to come out ahead in the exchange of Aussie punters from opposite sides of the country.

Their statistics are mostly a wash. Karoll averaged 42.8 yards on 42 punts with a 78-yarder last season that was the third-longest punt in school history. A year earlier, he av

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