Vol. 50, No. 2 - Fall Issue

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The National Football Foundation’s
Footballetter
2008 Inductee Arnold Tucker (far left), the QB of the 1945 & 1946 Army
national championship teams, joins his teammates Doc Blanchard (second on
the left) and Glenn Davis (far right) and Coach Earl Red Blaik
in the College Football Hall of Fame
Fall 2008
61ST ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION SET FOR DEC. 9
COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S ELITE TO GATHER IN NEW YORK CITY
A star-studded class of inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame
will headline the NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 9 in New York City,
including coach Lou Holtz, UCLA’s Troy Aikman and Northwestern’s Pat
Fitzgerald. The majestic event promises to be another special night as the
organization celebrates its 61st Anniversary. Former U.S. Senator John
Glenn will claim the NFF Gold Medal, the organization’s highest honor, and
philanthropist T. Boone Pickens will accept the Distinguished American
Award. College sports marketing visionary Bill Battle, who played at
Alabama and coached at Tennessee before founding the Collegiate Licensing
Company, will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football
Award while the organization will distribute over $300,000 in NFF National
Scholar-Athlete Awards and bestow the Draddy Trophy, presented by
HealthSouth, to the nation’s top scholar-athlete.
Since 1958, when U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower took a break from the election trail to accept the first NFF Gold Medal at the inaugural event, the NFF’s dinner has proved to be one of our nation’s most magnetic affairs, attracting giants of industry and leaders from all walks
of life to the Waldorf=Astoria’s Grand Ballroom in New York City. This group of elite individuals gathers each year to witness the immortalization of the greatest players to ever grace the college gridiron while also honoring those whose contributions have perpetuated our great game for
future generations. Past Gold Medal honorees have included seven U.S. Presidents, four U.S. Generals, three U.S. Admirals, 25 Corporate
CEOs, and a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and this year’s list of stars continues the rich legacy began 61 years ago by a prescient group of extraordinary men who understood the value of the game to future generations.
2008 COLLEGE HALL OF FAME FOOTBALL BOWL SUBDIVISION INDUCTEES
TROY AIKMAN – QB, UCLA (1987-88)
BILLY CANNON – HB, LSU (1957-59)
JIM DOMBROWSKI – OT, Virginia (1982-85)
PAT FITZGERALD – LB, Northwestern (1993-96)
WILBER MARSHALL – LB, Florida (1980-83)
RUEBEN MAYES – RB, Washington State (1982-85)
RANDALL McDANIEL – OG, Arizona State (1984-87)
DON McPHERSON – QB, Syracuse (1984-87)
JAY NOVACEK – TE, Wyoming (1982-84)
DAVE PARKS – SE, Texas Tech (1961-63)
RON SIMMONS – NG, Florida State (1977-80)
THURMAN THOMAS – RB, Oklahoma State (1984-87)
ARNOLD TUCKER – QB, Army (1944-46)
As part of becoming a member of
the College Football Hall of Fame,
each inductee experiences many
different events, including an OnCampus Salute, the NFF Annual
Awards Dinner in New York City,
the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National
Hall of Fame Salute, and the
Enshrinement Ceremonies in
South Bend, Ind. Pictured here,
2007 inductee Doug Flutie of
Boston College intercepts a pass
intended for induction classmate
Johnnie Johnson of Texas during a
flag football game at the Annual
Enshrinement Ceremonies.
COACHES
JOHN COOPER – 192-84-6 (.691) – Tulsa (1977-84), Arizona State (1985-87), Ohio State (1988-2000)
LOU HOLTZ – 249-132-7 (.651) – William & Mary (1969-71), North Carolina State (1972-75), Arkansas (1977-83), Minnesota (1984-85),
Notre Dame (1986-96), South Carolina (1999-2004)
2008
NFF MAJOR AWARD WINNERS
Upcoming Key Dates
GOLD MEDAL
John Glenn — Former U.S. Senator / Astronaut
DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN AWARD
T. Boone Pickens — Philanthropist
T. Boone
Pickens
John
Glenn
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO AMATEUR FOOTBALL AWARD
Bill Battle — Founder, Collegiate Licensing Company
JOHN L. TONER AWARD (For superior abilities in athletics administration)
Gene Smith — Director of Athletics, Ohio State University
CHRIS SCHENKEL AWARD (For excellence in broadcasting)
Co-Recipients Bob Curtis – University of Idaho & Dick Galiette – Yale University
OUTSTANDING FOOTBALL OFFICIAL AWARD
Thomas Robinson — Mountain West Conference & Western Athletics Conference
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Oct. 19: First Release of 2008 BCS Standings – Irving, Texas
Oct. 23: Draddy Trophy Finalists and National ScholarAthlete Award Winners Announcement
Dec. 9: NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf=Astoria
– New York, N.Y.
Jan. 5: National Hall of Fame Salute at the Tostitos Fiesta
Bowl – Glendale, Ariz.
Jan. 9: Presentation of MacArthur Trophy to BCS champion
– Miami, Fla.
The Officers of The National Football
Foundation & College Hall of Fame
Archie Manning, Chairman
Steven J. Hatchell, President & CEO
Clayton I. Bennett, Vice Chairman
John L. Toner, Vice Chairman
George M. Weiss, Vice Chairman
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By Dan Jenkins
NFF Historian
A true legend in the
field of sports journalism, Jenkins’ remarkable career has spanned
more than 60 years, a
record 500-plus Sports
Illustrated feature stories and deadline articles, 19 books, and 20
screenplays. His most recent book, published
in June and titled The Franchise Babe, is a
romantic comedy that centers around
women’s pro golf.
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hen College football fans gather at diners, taverns,
barbecue emporiums, country club grill rooms,
candelabra tailgates — note I’ve omitted bail
bond establishments — a question often asked is, Whose
Dream Backfield is it, anyway?
Dream Backfields are many, as it happens, and the claims
are many. I, for one, have learned never to walk down a dark
alley for fear of tripping over a Dream Backfield. It’s the same
with ordering the house salad in a restaurant. It’s always wise
to ask, “Is it the usual lettuce, tomatoes, croutons and ranch
dressing, or does it come with a Dream Backfield?”
Above: College football waited 68 years for the moniker, but Coach Jock Sutherland marshaled a Pitt Panther
quartet in ’37 and ’38 that finally gave birth to the phrase “Dream Backfield.” Right Half Back Harold
(Curly) Stebbins, QB John Chickerneo, All-America Fullback Marshall (Biggie) Goldberg and Left Half
Back Dick Cassiano. Photo Credit: Pittsburgh Athletics Communications.
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To select the finest Dream Backfields in the long history of collegiate gridiron mischief —a task I’ve lavished on myself — it’s my belief that a man needs
to confine his selections to the days when the gladiators played both ways,
offense and defense, and wore warmer clothing.
The term Dream Backfield didn’t actually exist until the late 1930s — more
about that in a moment — but somebody should have thought of it earlier.
Like in the days of Fielding H. Yost, who may have presided over the first
Dream Backfield. This was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, around the turn of the
century, which is to say before the forward pass was legalized.
Actually, Yost enjoyed four Dream Backfields from 1901 through 1904,
when the Wolverines went 43-0-1, but the term didn’t exist then and the foursomes were merely known as “the Heston backfields.”
Yost himself claimed the backfield of 1902 was his best. That season Willie
Heston toted the ball behind three blocking earthquakes that were otherwise
known as Harrison Weeks, Ev Sweeley and Al Herrnstein.
Heston, a halfback, and Weeks, the quarterback, both made All-America,
which was something of an upset at the time in as much as Yale and Harvard
and their ivy-draped friends held a death grip on college football publicity. Ann
Arbor might as well have been a suburb of Budapest.
“Coy and Company” at Yale in 1909 was the next Dream Backfield that wasn’t called a Dream Backfield. This may have been Yale’s greatest team, ever, for
it went 10-0 and didn’t allow a point to be scored against it. In the backfield
with Ted Coy, legendary fullback, were Steve Philbin, breakaway halfback, and
Arthur Howe, quarterback. Each was an All-America in one season or another,
Coy three times. The fourth member, Fred Murphy, kept them company.
The next team to produce three All-America backs was Harvard in 1913.
The Crimson rolled to a 9-0 record, but the backfield was merely known as
“Brickley and Friends.” The All-Americans were the dropkicking line-plunger,
Charley Brickley, the all-around fullback, Eddie Mahan, and the dodging Fred
Bradlee. Mal Logan, the quarterback, had to be content with knowing them.
As good a team as ever went 9-0 and beat Vanderbilt 83-0 was Georgia Tech
in 1917. Tech was the “Golden Tornado” in those days and hailed a backfield
known as the “Big 4.” Their stats in the Vandy game were snuggled up close to
amazing.
“Indian Joe” Guyon gained 344 yards and scored two touchdowns. Ev
Strupper gained 147 yards and scored four touchdowns. Al (Buster) Hill gained
189 yards and scored three touchdowns. Judy Harlan gained 111 yards and
scored two touchdowns.
Guyon and Strupper were All-Americans, but this was old news to Guyon
— he’d already been an All-American at Carlisle.
Harry Stuhldreher, Elmer Layden, Jim Crowley and Don Miller weren’t
regarded as a Dream Backfield in ’24 when Notre Dame went undefeated, they
simply had to settle for being the “Four Horsemen.” You know all about them,
how they went 10-0, so I won’t bother, except to point out that this is the only
quartet in history where all four backs made All-America. Miller, the leading
rusher, was chosen in ’23, and the other three in ’24. Miller missed in ’24 primarily, I assume, because the selectors felt they had to make room for a fellow
at Illinois named Red Grange.
It’s a fascinating footnote to history that Grange made his bones with those Top: Fullback Ted Coy of
“Coy and Company” anchored a 1909
touchdown scampers of 90, 65, 55 and 45 yards against Michigan on the exact
Yale backfield that boasted three All-Americans on perhaps the
same day — Oct. 18, 1924 — that Grantland Rice’s typewriter, after the Irish
Bulldog’s greatest team ever. Photo Credit: Yale Athletics.
beat Army 13-7, enshrined their backfield on horseback.
Middle: Georgia Tech Coach John Heisman led the Golden Tornado to the 1917
One can only guess what Granny would have written that day if he’d covnational championship with a backfield known as the “Big 4” and “Indian
Joe” Guyon at Halfback. Photo Credit: Georgia Tech Athletics.
ered Illinois’ 39-14 win over Michigan instead of Army-Notre Dame in the
Bottom: Notre Dame produced the only backfield in history with four All-Americans,
Polo Grounds. Folks might have read:
and Grantland Rice eloquently and famously christened them the Four
“Outlined against a maize-blue October sky, a One Horseman rode again
Horseman in 1924: HB Don Miller, QB Harry Stuhldreher, HB Jim Crowley,
today like he was pestilence, famine, death, and destruction.”
and FB Elmer Layden. Photo Credit: Notre Dame Athletics.
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No?
Okay, onward to 1931 where a backfield sounding like a page out of
the Social Register had formed at USC. Their names were Gaius (Gus)
Shaver, Orv Mohler, Erny Pinckert, and Jim Musick. They and the rest
of the “Thundering Herd” would break Notre Dame’s winning streak of
26 games, and would grab the national championship.
Three of them were All-Americans — Shaver, Mohler, and Pinckert.
Shaver and Mohler could do everything of the triple threat variety, and
Pinckert, perhaps the greatest blocking back in history, was also a superb
runner — when Shaver or Mohler would let him have the ball.
Three years later, in 1934, not everybody in the United States wanted to be known as one of the “Monsters of the Tundra,” but there were
plenty of people in Minnesota who did. That’s because the Golden
Gophers spent that fall stomping on people with a backfield of Francis
(Pug) Lund, who ran and passed, Julie Alphonse, who could outrun a
greyhound, Glenn Seidel, a blocking quarterback with a brain, and two
powerful, alternating fullbacks, Sheldon Beise and Stan Kostka.
This batch of Gophers surely ranks among the greatest backfields of
all-time. Minnesota went 8-0 in ’34 and shared the national crown with
Alabama, which got itself undefeated in a slightly different way — with
Dixie Howell spiraling passes to Don Hutson.
Finally, then, came the seasons of ’37 and ’38 and the arrival of the
game’s first official Dream Backfield.
It popped up at Pitt and bore the names of Marshall (Biggie)
Goldberg fullback, John Chickerneo, quarterback, Dick Cassiano, lefthalf, and Harold (Curly) Stebbins, righthalf.
Among other things, they were large. For their day. Goldberg, the AllAmerican, was six feet and 190. Chickerneo was 6-2, 220. Stebbins was
6-1, 195, and Cassiano, the top ground gainer, was only 180 — but
shifty. With such heft, the Panthers rarely needed to indulge in a pass.
They were undefeated national champions in ’37 (9-0-1) and might
have repeated in ’38 were it not for injuries and a blizzard, which left
them at 8-2.
Industrious detective work on the part of this bureau has uncovered
the fact that the man who introduced the term Dream Backfield to the
football world was Frank Carver, Pitt’s sports publicist in the day of
Goldberg and the others. Carver would later become Pitt’s Athletic
Director, and it’s rumored that his second greatest achievement was putting up with my old friend Beano Cook.
After that moment, Dream Backfields started to bloom like homecoming queens.
Take 1940, for instance. At least three Dream Backfields were
unleashed on mankind that season. They were:
Stanford — Frankie Albert, Norm Standlee, Pete Kmetovic, and
Hugh Gallarneau. Their coach, Clark Shaughnessy, modestly chose
those early practitioners of the T-formation as the greatest backfield in
history.
Michigan — Tom Harmon, Forest Evashevski, Bob Westfall, and Paul
Kromer. This was the greatest backfield that lost a national championship by 1 point.
Minnesota — Bruce Smith, George (Sonny) Franck, Bill Daley, Bob
Paffrath, Bob Sweiger. This was the greatest backfield that ever won a
national championship by one point. Michigan and Minnesota’s backfields met in one of those Games of the Decade in 1940 and the Gophers
won 7-6.
Georgia fancied a dream foursome in ’42, a national title and Rose
Bowl season, in those moments when Frank Sinkwich, the Heisman star,
Top: Stanford Coach Clark Shaughnessy used his 1940 Dream Backfield, named the
“Wow Boys” to introduce the modern T-Formation, featuring FB Norm Standlee
(No. 51) and HB Pete Kmetovic (No. 17) and producing an undefeated season
and a victory in the Rose Bowl. Photo Credit: Stanford Athletics.
Middle: The 1940 Michigan Backfield: QB Forest Evashevski, HB Norm Call, FB Bob
Westfall and HB Tom Harmon. Photo Credit: Eck Stanger of the Ann Arbor
News. Five different players started at right half in 1940. Paul Kromer, who
with Harmon earned the moniker the “Touchdown Twins” in 1938, suffered a
severe knee injury that put him on the bench for most of two years. His lone
start in 1940 came in the Wolverine’s victory over Ohio State. Photo inset credit: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
Bottom: The 1942 Georgia Backfield: HB Frank Sinkwich, HB Charley Trippi, FB
Dick McPhee, WB Lamar “Racehorse” Davis. Photo Credit: UGA Athletics.
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had the future do-everything All-American Charlie Trippi in the backfield
with him instead of being used as his understudy. Wingback Lamar
(Racehorse) Davis, Fullback Dick McPhee, and quarterback Ken Keuper
were all part of the Bulldogs’ rotation.
The undefeated Army teams of ’45 and ’46 presented as famous a backfield as ever hogged headlines. When they weren’t “the Black Knights of the
Hudson,” they were “Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside.” Coach Earl (Red) Blaik
must have thought it was indeed a dream to have Felix (Doc) Blanchard,
Glenn (Junior) Davis, Arnold (Monk) Tucker, and Tom (Shorty)
McWilliams on his side. As the saying goes, the only thing this group couldn’t do was play the tuba.
Actually, there was one other thing they couldn’t do. They couldn’t beat
Notre Dame in ’46, but Notre Dame couldn’t beat them either in a 0-0 tie,
a contest known as the Game of the Year-Decade-Century.
Which incidentally saw the Irish unveil something of a Dream Backfield
of its own with Johnny Lujack, Terry Brennan, Emil (Red) Sitko, and a fullback combo of Jim Mello and Johnny Panelli.
SMU produced the most photogenic backfield of them in ’48 and ’49,
and also one of the most explosive. Most of the action centered around
Doak Walker, but he got a good bit of help at times from Kyle Rote, Paul
Page, and Dick McKissack.
Oklahoma started developing Dream Backfields as the 1950s began, and
the Sooners have had many since then. The one that comes immediately to
mind is the ’55 and ’56 crew of Tommy McDonald, Jimmy Harris,
Clendon Thomas, and Billy Pricer. Another is the ’52 bunch of Billy
Vessels, Eddie Crowder, Buddy Leake, and Buck McPhail. Over both of
those, however, I’m prone to go with the ’49 quartet of Darrell Royal,
Top right: “The Black Knights of the Hudson” produced the undefeated Army teams of ’45 and ’46 with the famous backfield of HB
Glenn Davis, QB Arnold Tucker and FB Felix (Doc) Blanchard. Insert Photo: HB Tom “Shorty” McWilliams (inset) completed the ’45 Army Dream Backfield. Photo Credit: Army Athletics.
Middle: The SMU Dream Backfield of HB Doak Walker, WB Paul Page, FB Dick McKissack, and HB Kyle Rote. Photo Credit:
SMU Heritage Hall.
Bottom right: In 2004 and 2005 the Trojans prospered with QB Matt Leinart (No. 11) and RB Reggie Bush (No. 5) in the same
backfield with both earning Heismans. Photo Credit: USC Athletics.
Above: The ’52 bunch was one of the many Oklahoma Dream Backfields that sprouted in the 1950’s for Hall of Fame Coach Bud
Wilkinson: HB Buddy Leake, HB Billy Vessels, QB Eddie Crowder, and FB Buck McPhail. Photo Credit: OU Athletics
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George (Junior) Thomas, Lindell Pearson, and Leon Heath. They made better use the pass to go along with their speed and power. Which is to say they
threw more than four or five times a game.
Today, in this modern era of one-way football, you don’t have Dream
Backfields. Attacks have changed to more of a pro style. Thus, you may
occasionally have Dream Triplets, as in the case of Nebraska, where the
Cornhuskers have had the Jerry Tagge, Jeff Kinney and Johnny Rodgers
triplets in the early ’70s, the Turner Gill, Mike Rozier and Irving Fryar
triplets of the early ’80s, and the Tommie Frazier, Lawrence Phillips, and
Abdul Mohammad triplets in the middle ’90s.
Dream Twins have also existed. Take the case of Southern California. In
2004 and 2005 the Trojans prospered with Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush
in the same backfield. Two Heismans, one backfield. And back in 1979 the
Trojans prospered with Charles White, a Heisman, and Marcus Allen, a
Heisman two seasons later. The only other time this happened was in aforementioned days of Blanchard & Davis at Army.
Recently, there was even a Dream Oneski, or, if you prefer, a One Man
Gang. This occurred in ’05 when Vince Young put an entire squad of Texas
Longhorns on his shoulders and carried them to an undefeated season, topping it off with a national championship when he overwhelmed USC’s
Dream Twins in the Rose Bowl.
There have been One Man Gangs before, of course. It’s easy to think of
Jim Thorpe at Carlisle, Chic Harley at Ohio State, Ernie Nevers at Stanford,
Jay Berwanger at Chicago, Sam Baugh or Davey O’Brien at TCU, Ace Parker
at Duke, Choo Choo Justice at North Carolina, and Doak Walker at SMU.
But that’s another topic, isn’t it?
Top left: Nebraska fielded “dream triplets” in three consecutive decades with WR Irving Fryar (No.
27) and RB Mike Rozier (No. 30) joining
QB Turner Gill (No. 12) as the trio of the
early ’80s. Photo Credit: Nebraska Athletics.
Bottom left to right: The One Man Gangs: Carlisle
HB Jim Thrope, known as the “the greatest
athlete of his time”; and QB Vince Young, a “Dream Oneski” for a Texas national championship in 2005.
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NFF’S GRIDIRON CLUB
NEW YORK
ELI MANNING KICKS OFF LAUNCH OF
NFF’S GRIDIRON CLUB OF NEW YORK
he New York Giants’ Eli Manning, son of NFF
Chairman Archie Manning, attracted close to
100 of New York’s elite to Manhattan’s 21 Club in
June for the official launch of the NFF’s Gridiron Club
of New York, which will work to promote college football in the New York City greater metropolitan area.
“As the cultural and economic capital of the world,
New York City holds a special place in the minds of
Americans,” said NFF President & CEO Steve
Hatchell. “The NFF’s Gridiron Club of New York will
ensure that college football has a strong presence in
the region, raising the profile of a sport that has given
so much to so many and hopefully increasing the
opportunities for young people to play our sport.”
The Manning Family has a long-standing involvement with the National Football Foundation prior to
Archie’s inauguration as the organization’s chairman
earlier this year. Archie, a 1989 College Football Hall
of Fame inductee, has served as an NFF board member for 18 years and is actively involved in the Allstate
Sugar Bowl Chapter in his native New Orleans. Eli
was named a high school scholar-athlete in 1999 and
was honored in 2003 as an NFF National ScholarAthlete while a senior at Ole Miss. Brother Peyton was
the recipient of the 1997 NFF Draddy Trophy.
“We all know the New York media market is heavily
dominated by professional sports, and a concerted
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effort to promote college football in the area will be
challenging at first,” said Archie Manning, who was
unable to attend at the last minute. “However, with the
many leaders and CEOs in New York who had formative experiences on the college gridiron, we believe
we’ll rally significant support for our efforts. College
football has provided so many opportunities for my
family, and Eli and I are certainly happy to be a part of
this unique initiative.”
Distinct from a traditional chapter, the NFF’s
Gridiron Club will utilize national resources to establish a power center for the organization in the heavilypopulated region. The Gridiron Club’s mission focuses
on six critical areas:
• Developing new media platforms to promote
college football;
• Recognizing the achievements of local college
players, coaches and administrators;
• Connecting alumni in New York from
different schools with strong college football
traditions;
• Encouraging attendance at local college games;
• Engaging corporate leaders, who experienced
the benefits of college football, in our programs
and events; and;
• Hosting special events with college football
dignitaries.
More than 110 people attended the launch of the Gridiron Club of New York
City at the famed 21 Club in Midtown Manhattan. Pictured: Eli Manning smiles
as Columbia Athletics Director Dianne Murphy and NFF Vice Chairman
George Weiss welcome former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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NFF Board Members George
Weiss and Bill Campbell.
Eli Manning with George
Pyne, president of IMG
Sports and Entertainment.
Columbia Athletics Director
Dianne Murphy talks with
Heisman Trophy Trust
Director Rob Whalen and
Heisman Memorial Trophy
Associate Director Tim
Henning.
NFF Board Member Jefferson
Kirby (far right) with his sons
Morgan Kirby (16) on the
far left and Walker Kirby
(15) with NFF Board Member
Ron Johnson.
Arena League
Commissioner Dave Baker
with Eli Manning.
NFF Board Member Gene
Washington, Mrs. Karyn
Browne (wife of NFL
Executive Vice President
Joe Browne), NFF Board
Member Ron Johnson.
CBS Executive Vice President
of Programming Mike Aresco,
Fordham Athletics Director
Francis McLaughlin, and
Aresco’s wife Sharon and son
Brett.
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Morgan Stanley Regional
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Stanley COO of National
Sales Andy Saperstein, NFF
Board Member George
Weiss and Blue Chip
Venture Company Founder
Jack Wyant.
UBS SVP Tim Willis, Sports
Net NY Senior Producer
Jeane Willis, Columbia AD
Dianne Murphy, 2008 College
Hall of Fame inductee Don
McPherson and Columbia
Associate AD Barry
Neuberger.
Eli Manning talks with ESPN
Senior Vice President Len
DeLuca.
Harold P. Freeman Patient
Navigation Institute Director
Jackie Modeste, JP Morgan
Chase Managing Director
Ted Gregory, DDG
Management President Don
Jackson, Merrill Lynch First
Vice President Kevin Ward,
Brian Ward (Kevin’s son), and
Columbia AD Dianne
Murphy.
Head of Sales and Marketing
for IMG College Lee Stacey,
MasterCard Worldwide
Senior Vice President
Michael Robichaud and
MasterCard Director of
Global Sponsorships
Andrew Shahadi.
NFF President & CEO Steve
Hatchell, Former SMU QB
Mike Romo, Eli Manning,
Dan Connolly (Managing
Partner Bracewell &
Giuliani), former NYC Mayor
Rudy Giuliani and Bear
Ventures CEO Philip Erdoes.
Rutgers coach Greg Schiano,
New York Giants Super Bowl
MVP and Ole Miss NFF
Scholar-Athlete Eli Manning
and NFF Board Members Bob
Mulcahy and Bill Campbell.
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Matthew Sign with ESPN
Studio Host and Analyst Rece
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NFF’S GRIDIRON CLUB
DALLAS
he National Football Foundation welcomed over 100 football enthusiasts in July to
SMU’s Ford Stadium for the kickoff of the NFF Gridiron Club of Dallas.
NFF President & CEO Steven J. Hatchell spoke on behalf of the NFF’s chapter system,
its impact on local communities and the importance of a chapter in football-rich Dallas.
“The NFF is incredibly proud to be in the Dallas area,” said Hatchell. “The passion for football in North Texas is unparalleled, and the NFF Gridiron Club of Dallas and its newest members will undoubtedly continue to promote our organization’s mission of ‘Building Leaders
through Football’.”
New SMU Head Coach June Jones also addressed the crowd, reflecting on his days as an
NFF high school scholar-athlete in Portland, Ore., in 1971. He further stressed the need to
become a member of the Dallas Chapter, ultimately helping hundreds of area players to a better future.
The event was sponsored by Intersport and Sprinturf.
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Coach June Jones chats with
Hall of Famer Chad
Hennings.
More than 100 football stakeholders attended the inaugural NFF Gridiron Club of
Dallas event at SMU’s Ford
Stadium on July 22.
College Football Hall of
Fame inductee from Air
Force and celebrated Dallas
Cowboy Chad Hennings and
Preston Pearson, who played
in five Super Bowls with the
Dallas Cowboys.
Cedar Hill coach Joey
McGuire and Bowie coach
Kenny Perry. Both of their
teams participated
in the Kirk Herbstreit Varsity
Football Series. Perry is
president of the North Texas
HS Coaches Association.
Former SMU QB Lance
McIlhenny and Conference
USA Commissioner Britton
Banowsky.
NFL.com Writer Gil Brandt
and former SMU great Don
McIlhenny.
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FORUM FOSTERED NEW DIALOGUE WITH THE MEDIA
resented by the Heisman Trophy Trust, National Football Foundation (NFF) and the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA)
jointly hosted an inaugural Football Forum in Dallas, Texas, from May 15-16. At the two-day event, leaders from the world of college football and the media gathered to discuss the major challenges shaping today’s college football landscape.
“Ensuring the future of our sport remains paramount, and the NFF board wanted to play a role in creating a healthy dialogue between the leaders
of our sport and the media,” said NFF President & CEO Steven J. Hatchell. “By creating greater access for the media in a relaxed setting, we hope
that the Forum can become an annual affair that will create a greater understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing our sport between all
the parties involved.”
The event, entitled College Football: Today and Tomorrow, was broken into four sessions, and discussion topics included media relations, academics, recruiting, player conduct, the obligations of coaches beyond the field, coaching compensation and contracts, minority coaching opportunities,
the economics of the sport, post-season imperatives, the influence of the NFL on the college game, the state of high school football and the health of
the game.
“The Forum was a great opportunity for college coaches, administrators and the media to move from a press conference structure to a more relaxed
atmosphere where an exchange of ideas and information can flow freely,” said Steve Richardson, executive director of the Football Writers Association
of America. “We certainly hope that this becomes an annual staple of the college football scene and will grow in popularity over the years where the
media can engage some of the best minds in college football about the pertinent topics of the day.”
The event sponsors included the Heisman Trophy Trust, the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award, the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the FedEx
Orange Bowl, Schutt Sports and the AT&T Cotton Bowl.
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More than 85 people gathered in Dallas for the Football Forum. Front Row L-R: TCU coach Gary Patterson, Ohio State coach
Jim Tressel, Washington coach Tyrone Willingham. Back Row: Kansas coach Mark Mangino, Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe,
then Notre Dame Athletics Director Kevin White, Florida State University President T.K.Wetherell, and Army Athletics Director
Kevin Anderson.
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President of the Davey O’Brien Foundation Bobby
McGee talks with NFF Chairman Archie Manning.
The Davey O’Brien Foundation sponsored the
Football Forum Dinner.
NFF Board Member and AFCA Executive Director Grant Teaff talked
about the advantages of an early signing day period as NFF Board
Members Chuck Neinas and George Weiss listen.
FWAA Executive Director Steve Richardson, FWAA President and Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter Ron Higgins, and
Penn State Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society Malcolm Moran listen during one of the group sessions.
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Fox Sports Chris Rose moderated the event. Rose hosts Fox’s coverage of the BCS games as well as the Best Damn Sports
Show Period.
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NFF Board Member Chuck Neinas talks with Florida State
President T.K. Wetherell and his wife, Virginia Wetherell.
At one of the receptions, BCS Coordinator Bill Hancock talks
with Mickey Spagnola of KTCK 1310-AM in Dallas, and Rick
Gosselin, a columnist with the Dallas Morning News.
Texas Christian University Athletics Director Danny Morrison
with NFF Board Member Roger Williams, a TCU graduate.
Charles Davis, national broadcaster with the NFL Network, Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network talks with Notre Dame Deputy
AD Stan Wilcox and then-Notre Dame Athletics Director Kevin White.
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NFF President & CEO Steve Hatchell shares a moment with
Kelsey and Gary Patterson and Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel at
one of the receptions.
Florida State President T.K. Wetherell talks with ESPN’s
Joe Schad, CBS Sportsline’s Dennis Dodd, and the Eugene
Register-Guard’s George Schroeder.
TCU coach Gary Patterson talks with USA Today’s Kelly Whiteside and Aaron Cohen of the Associated Press after one of
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With Heisman Trophy Trust as the presenting sponsor, the event took place at the DFW Airport Hyatt, which made it highly
accessible to people and panelists from all over the country.
THE 2008 BOWL SUBDIVISION
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FAME CLASS FROM THE BOWL SUBDIVSION
or the second year in a row, the NFF collaborated with ESPNEWS to announce live on national television the new
inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame for the Football Bowl Subdivision.
ESPN Studio Host Dari Nowkhah traveled from Bristol, Conn., to the Waldorf=Astoria in New York City, the site of the
announcement, for the event. Joining Nowkhah for the announcement were inductees Pat Fitzgerald (Northwestern); Lou
Holtz (Notre Dame) and Don McPherson (Syracuse).
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4) PAT FITZGERALD – LB, Northwestern (1993-96)
5) WILBER MARSHALL – LB, Florida (1980-83)
6) RUEBEN MAYES – RB, Washington State (1982-85)
7) RANDALL McDANIEL – OG, Arizona State (1984-87)
8) DON McPHERSON – QB, Syracuse (1984-87)
9) JAY NOVACEK – TE, Wyoming (1982-84)
10) DAVE PARKS – SE, Texas Tech (1961-63)
11) RON SIMMONS – NG, Florida State (1977-80)
12) THURMAN THOMAS – RB, Oklahoma State (1984-87)
13) ARNOLD TUCKER – QB, Army (1944-46)
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Ohio State (1988-2000)
15) LOU HOLTZ – 249-132-7 (.651) – William & Mary (1969-71),
North Carolina State (1972-75), Arkansas (1977-83), Minnesota (1984-85),
Notre Dame (1986-96), South Carolina (1999-2004).
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16) Syracuse QB Don McPherson
shares his thoughts on what it
means to be inducted into the
College Football Hall of
Fame.
17) Columbia Athletics Director
Dianne Murphy chats with
NFF Board Member Jack Ford
at the event. Murphy has
played a key role in launching the NFF Girdiron Club of
New York City.
18) Inductee Pat Fitzgerald conducts a one-on-one interview
with Danielle Santoro of the
CBS College Sports Network.
19) CBS Coordinating Producer
Craig Silver talks with
inductee Pat Fitzgerald as
Fitzgerald’s wife Stacy looks
on. Silver is a member of the
NFF Gridiron Club of New
York City.
20) Senior ESPN College Football
Writer Ivan Maisel talks with
former New York Times
reporter Bill Wallace, who is
helping to launch the NFF
College Football Bookstore
online.
21) ESPN’s Dari Nowkhah had fun
introducing his colleague Lou
Holtz who also works at ESPN
as a analyst during the college football season.
22) More than 75 people attended
the live ESPNEWS announcement of the 2008 Hall of Fame
Class on May 1 in New York
City. Pictured: inductees Pat
Fitzgerald (Northwestern); Lou
Holtz (Notre Dame) and Don
McPherson (Syracuse).
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online writer Adam Caparell
interviews coach Lou Holtz
as NFF COO Matthew Sign
talks with ABC Director of
Operations and
Administration Stephen
Ferrara.
24) ESPN College Football Live
Studio Host Dari Nowkhah
brought passion and enthusiasm to the announcement of
the 2008 College Football
Hall of Fame Class.
25) Steve Hatchell utilized the
national stage on ESPNEWS
to give the live television
audience an overview of the
National Football
Foundation before the official announcement of the
class.
26) New York Post college football writer Lenn Robbins
(left) and New York Times
reporter Frank Litsky (center)
interview inductee Don
McPherson (right) after the
official announcement.
27) ESPN reporter Shelley Smith
paid a visit to the event,
offering her congratulations
to Coach Holtz and the other
Hall of Fame inductees in
attendance.
28) Anthony Fucilli of the MSG
Network gets the scoop for
all local Syracuse fans who
live in the New York City
area on the induction of
Orange legend Don
McPherson.
29) ESPNEWS carried the press
conference live, and Dari
Nowkhah traveled from
Bristol, Conn., to fulfill the
honor of announcing the 2008
class of Hall of Fame
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AWARDS
NFF Chapter System Concludes Monster Award Season
Distributing $1 million in scholarships and honoring 3,300 deserving student-athletes, the NFF Chapter
Network honored the best and the brightest from border-to-border and coast-to-coast in 2008.
he NFF Chapter Network distributed nearly $1 million in scholarships during its recently concluded 2008
award banquet season. Covering more than 4,800 high schools and 400,000 student-athletes, the NFF
chapters selected 3,300 amateur football players, who on average boasted a 3.7 GPA, for recognition as
the best and the brightest for their combined excellence on the gridiron, in the classroom and as leaders in the
community.
“The scholar-athlete banquet season plays a critical role in the NFF’s mission of exposing as many young
people as possible to football’s unique ability in building our next generation of leaders,” said NFF Chairman
Archie Manning. “The banquet season holds out the best of today for their peers to emulate. I always stand in
awe at the chapter banquets as I listen to the emcees read the accomplishments of our honorees.”
The NFF Chapter Network, spread across 121 outposts in 47 states, serves as the pulse of a nationwide effort
to encourage leadership, sportsmanship and academic excellence among young football players. Each year the
chapters collectively stage more than 1,000 events, including coaching clinics, all-star games, leadership conferences, college nights and more than 100 scholarship banquets.
”The NFF Chapter Network stands as one of the most valuable forces in all of amateur sports,” said NFF
President & CEO Steven J. Hatchell. “The passion of our members knows no bounds, and their efforts have a
dramatic impact on inspiring leadership and lifting the academic performance of high school football players
nationwide. It’s a privilege to shine a light on their collective efforts and play a role in facilitating their impact
at the grassroots level.”
Annually drawing more than 33,000 people, the NFF banquets serve as an important milestone for the honorees
as they claim a portion of almost $1 million in scholarships to further their education. The all-time amount raised
and disbursed by the chapters reached the $13 million mark this year. Coupled with the amount of $ 8.6 million
disbursed from the national headquarters through the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Program, the all-time amount
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Tyrone Willingham,
Washington head football
coach, delivered the keynote
speech at the 42nd Annual
King County Chapter of
Seattle Scholar-Athlete
Banquet.
The NFF Chicago Metro
Chapter distributed $10,000 in
scholarships at its 2008 banquet. Many VIPs attended,
including the pictured Jimbo
Covert, a 2003 College
Football Hall of Fame
inductee from Pittsburgh, and
Leroy Keys, a 1990 College
Football Hall of Fame
inductee from Purdue
University.
A proud dad, Hall of Famer
John Elway, stands with his
son Jack, a 2008 Colorado
Chapter Scholar-Athlete at
the NFF event in Denver. The
younger Elway is now at
Arizona State.
Head coaches Larry Kehres
(Mount Union), Joe Finicham
(Wittenberg) and Shane
Montgomery (Miami, Ohio)
attended the 20th Annual
Springfield Ohio Chapter
event.
At the 48th Annual Northern
California Chapter event,
seated: Hall of Fame Coach
Jim Sochor (California-Davis),
Adam Henderson, Scott
Sabattino, Hall of Fame
Player Chris Burford
(Stanford), Duane Linberg.
Standing: Mike Moroski and
PAC-10 Commissioner Tom
Hansen.
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Dick Whitney (left) with then
Arena Football League
Commissioner David Baker
(center) who delivered the
event’s keynote speech and
KOCE-TV sportscaster Ed
Arnold who emceed the
chapter’s 38th annual scholar-athlete banquet.
NFF National Board Member
Terry Jacobs speaks at the
41st Annual Cincinnati
Chapter Scholar-Athlete
Banquet.
At the Greater Austin
Chapter event, (L-R):
Roosevelt Leaks, Hall of
Famer; Pat Kelly, chapter
president; DeLoss Dodds,
Distinguished American
Award winner; Coach Darrell
Royal, Hall of Famer; Mack
Brown, UT head football
coach; David McWilliams,
chapter executive director;
Dr. Carlos Brown, Young
American Award winner;
Chris Plonsky, UT women’s
athletics director; James
Saxton, Hall of Famer; Dr.
Bill Graves, Contribution to
Amateur Football Award
winner; Major Applewhite,
keynote speaker; Ron
Dilatush, NFF Membership
Director.
Notre Dame College Football
Hall of Famer and 1964
Heisman Trophy winner John
Huarte visits scholar-athletes
Joseph Fauria and Dayne
Crist at the 34th Annual San
Fernando Valley Chapter
banquet.
distributed by the NFF eclipsed $21 million this year.
A half-dozen chapter banquets exceeded 1,000 attendees each, led by the Touchdown
Club of Houston, the Greater Baltimore and the Portland (Ore.) chapters. The Orange
County (Calif.) chapter recognized more than 80 scholar-athletes, while the Wyoming
chapter extended honors to a dozen community leaders, including a Greatest High School
Football Fan Award and Football Coach Career Achievement Award.
Chapters distributing more than $20,000 in annual scholarships include: the Greater
Atlanta Chapter, $48,000; the Delaware Valley Chapter of N.J., $38,000; the Central New
York Chapter of Syracuse, $37,000; the Middle Tennessee Chapter of Nashville, $36,000;
the Corrigan/Faircloth Chapter of Greensboro, N.C., $28,000; the Valley of the Sun
Chapter of Scottsdale, Ariz., $28,000; the Riverside Chapter of California, $25,000; the
Northeast Ohio Chapter, $24,000; the Northern California Chapter of San Francisco,
$24,000; The Tom Lombardo Chapter of St. Louis, Mo., $22,000; the Baltimore Chapter of
Maryland, $20,000; the Orange County Chapter of California, $20,000; and The Portland
(Ore.) Chapter, $20,000.
Forty head coaches from the Football Bowl Subdivision attended, while at least 50 head
coaches from the divisional ranks also made appearances at chapter events. Forty-one
College Football Hall of Fame inductees played roles at the events either delivering
keynote speeches or presenting awards, as did 15 NFF National Scholar-Athletes.
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12,000 members
Reaches 4,800 high schools and 400,000 student-athletes
$1 million distributed annually
$21 million distributed all-time
3,300 student-athletes honored annually with an average 3.7 GPA
52,000 scholar-athletes honored all-time
33,000 people annually attend a banquet
More than 1,000 events staged each year
All-time chapter banquet attendance: 1,120,000
10) Mid-American Conference
Commissioner Rick Chryst
presents Wisconsin Chapter
Scholar-Athlete Christopher
Cromwell from St. Johns
Northwestern Military
Academy with his award during halftime of the Badgers
spring game.
11) Tennessee head coach Phil
Fulmer speaks at the East
Tennessee Chapter event.
12) Chapter President Earl
Garcia, South Florida Head
Coach Jim Leavitt, WFLA-TV
News Anchor Gayle Sierens
and Chapter VP Vernon Korhn
at the 40th Annual Tampa
Chapter event.
13) The Northern Connecticut
Chapter presented Mike
Golic, Sr., with its
Distinguished American
Award on the same that night
that his son, Mike Jr., was recognized as a chapter scholarathlete. The younger Golic
will follow in his father and
his Uncle Bob’s footsteps by
playing football this fall at
Notre Dame.
14) Pinnacle West Capital
Corporation Chairman & CEO
Bill Post (center) accepted the
Valley of the Sun Chapter’s
Distinguished Arizonan
Award from Executive
Director Dan Manucci and
member Bill Shover.
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15) Hall of Famer Joe
Washington, Oklahoma
Athletics Director Joe
Castiglione, Hall of Famer
Mark May and Tulsa
Athletics Director Bubba
Cunningham at the 24th
Annual Oklahoma Chapter
Banquet.
16) Retired SEC Commissioner
Roy Kramer (L) receives the
East Tennessee Chapter’s
Distinguished American
Award from long-time UT
athletics department staff
member Gus Manning.
17) The Toledo Chapter ScholarAthletes hand out footballs
at the children’s hospital.
18) Indiana head coach Bill
Lynch delivered the keynote
speech at the Central
Indiana Chapter event.
19) Hawaii Head Coach Greg
McMackin delivered the
keynote address at the
Hawaii Chapter ScholarAthlete Banquet.
20) At the Twin Cities Chapter
inaugural scholar-athlete
luncheon, NFF COO Matthew
Sign, legendary coach and
recipient of the inaugural
Distinguished Minnesotan
Award Murray Warmath,
Chapter President Sean
Gothier and in the back Hall
of Famer Bobby Bell from
Minnesota.
21) Chicago Bears quarterback
and former Boilermaker signal caller Kyle Orton and
Purdue head coach Joe Tiller
sign autographs prior to the
Joe Tiller of Northwest
Indiana Chapter event.
22) At the University of Georgia
Chapter annual scholar-athlete festivities, Jimmy Orr,
Hall of Famer Johnny Majors,
Houston Texans head coach
Gary Kubiak, U.S. Senator
Saxby Chambliss.
23) At the Triangle Chapter of
North Carolina event, Hall of
Famer Don McCauley of UNC
presents a scholar-athlete
award to Andrew Reid of
Charles Jordan HS.
24) Allstate Sugar Bowl President
Ronnie Burns (left) and NFF
Chairman Archie Manning
(right) present a $2,500 scholarship to scholar-athlete
David Perrin.
25) John Babb who participated
in the Play It Smart Program
at Topeka HS receives his
scholar-athlete plaque from
Kansas State legend Bill
Snyder at the Sun Flower
Chapter event.
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26) At the Jack Grinold Chapter of
Eastern Massachusetts event,
Howie Vandersea, NFF NE
Region Coordinator; Tim
Murphy, Harvard head coach
and Ron Burton Distinguished
American Award winner; Bob
Minihane, New Balance
Executive and Ed Schluntz
Contribution to Amateur
Football Award recipient; Jim
Davis, Founder and CEO of
New Balance.
27) Missouri head coach Gary
Pinkel accepted the St.
Louis/Tom Lombardo
Chapter’s leadership award.
28) Cleveland Browns SVP and
General Manager Phil
Savage (left) and Ohio State
coach Jim Tressel (right) present Larry Rice of Hiram
College the Northeast Ohio
Chapter’s Assistant College
Coach of the Year Award.
29) Joe Tiller of Northwest Indiana
Chapter top scholar-athlete
recipient Griffin Richeson
with New Orleans Saints
quarterback Drew Brees.
30) Kansas State head coach Ron
Prince delivered the keynote
address at the Sun Flower
Chapter of Kansas annual
scholar-athlete event.
31) At the University of Georgia
Chapter Event, the Post
Graduate Achievement
Award recipients holding
plaques with the VIPs. Front
Row: Buck Bradberry, Ed
Greenway, Robert West,
Marisa Simpson. Back Row:
Chapter president Mason
McWhorter, Georgia coach
Marc Richt, Jim Curington,
Chris Hammond, Rusty
Epperson, Texans coach Gary
Kubiak and Art Demmas.
32) AJ Springer of Miller HS
receives the Chris Ault
Quarterback Award from
College Football Hall of Fame
Coach Ault at the San
Bernadino Chapter event.
33) At the Triangle Chapter of
North Carolina event, Wade
Snedecor from Broughton HS
receives his scholar-athlete
plaque from Marie and Coach
Bill Dooley.
34) At the Brian Piccolo Chapter
of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
Michigan State Coach Mark
Dantonio (center) with scholarship winners (L-R) David
Seamon, Coral Springs
Christian HS; David
Quintero, Fort Lauderdale HS
and Jordan Sessa, South
Broward HS.
An Exclusive Club
The 2008 NFF Scholar-Athlete Alumni Association
Since 1959, the National Football Foundation has annually recognized the best and the brightest college
players, presenting them with the prestigious NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards. Currently an $18,000
scholarship for post-graduate education, the awards are presented at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner in conjunction with the College Football Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in New York City, and accepting the
honor has always proven to be a highly inspiring moment for each recipient.
“Recipients of these awards have used their scholarships to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists,
businessmen and leaders in their communities,” said NFF Chairman Archie Manning. “And many of our honorees, who confronted with the financial hurdles of continuing their education, have stated that it has been the
NFF Scholar-Athlete Award that made the difference in their career choices. Creating the NFF Scholar-Athlete
Alumni Association allows them to remain active members of this exclusive club.”
Reconnecting with this signature program, many past scholar-athletes have stepped forward this year to
become members of the inaugural 2008 NFF Scholar-Athlete Alumni Association, including:
Platinum
Silver
* Thomas D. Burns, Jr. (Virginia – 1993)
Richard Diana (Yale – 1981)
Edmund C. Dyas IV (Auburn – 1960)
Tom Gilmore (Florida – 1994)
Tim Green (Syracuse – 1985)
Patrick Haden (USC – 1974)
Craig Mahoney (Iowa State – 1990)
* Peyton Manning (Tennessee – 1997)
Michael Mauck (Tennessee – 1976)
Michael W. Perrin (Texas – 1968)
Josh Bloom (Dartmouth – 1994)
Michael Bramlage (Thomas More – 1997)
Derrick Brooks (Florida State – 1994)
John Cochran (Auburn – 1965)
Thomas Gottwald (Virginia Military Institute – 1982)
Al Grigaliunas (Pittsburgh – 1963)
Randall L. Hall (Alabama – 1974)
Robert D. Johnson (Kenyon College – 1996)
Rex Kern (Ohio State – 1970)
Jeffrey Y. Lewis (Georgia – 1977)
Oliver F. Luck (West Virginia – 1981)
James R. Lynch (Notre Dame – 1966)
Lance Pavlas (Texas A&M – 1990)
Scott Reynolds (Hastings College – 1996)
John Sande (Stanford – 1970)
Robert A. Stein (Minnesota – 1968)
Willie Thompson (Morgan State – 1996)
Harry R. Tolly (Nebraska – 1959)
Calvin G. Warren, Jr. (NC State – 1981)
Steve Wasylk (Michigan State – 1993)
Gold
David J. Casper (Notre Dame – 1973)
Morgan L. Copeland, Jr. (Texas – 1977)
Danny Kanell (Florida State – 1995)
Tom Lyons (Georgia – 1970)
William T. Obremskey (Duke – 1983)
Merlin Olsen (Utah State – 1961)
John Field Scovell (Texas Tech – 1967)
Charles Thomson (Indiana – 1971)
* Denotes winner of the Draddy Trophy, which was first
bestowed in 1990 and is now presented by HealthSouth to
the nation’s top football scholar-athlete.
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