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D1 College Football News
April 3, 2006
Source: The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, Inc.
Monday Chalktalk
News and notes from around college football for April 3, 2006
Tulane Reopens Athletics Center
The James W. Wilson Center, flooded with three feet of water and mud during
last summer’s Hurricane Katrina, reopened on the campus of Tulane University
last week sporting refurbished facilities for numerous Green Wave teams.
Changes to the facility include a revamped football locker room, academic
services area, athletics training room and strength & conditioning center.
Following a season in which they played an entire schedule on the road in 11
different stadiums, the Tulane football team will hold their first true home
game in two years on September 30 against SMU at the Louisiana Superdome.
Hall of Fame Coach Ron Schipper Dies
Ron Schipper, the longtime coach at Central College (Iowa) who was inducted
into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000, died suddenly at his home
last week. He was 77 years old. Schipper guided Central to 287 wins during
his 36-year tenure there, posting a winning record in every year. He
coached Central to the Division III national championship in 1974 and also
appeared in the championship game in 1984 and 1988. Schipper joined Vern
Den Herder, one of his former players, as the only two Hall of Fame
inductees from Central College.
Elway Set for Grand Marshal Duties
The great Stanford quarterback John Elway, who earned induction into the
College Football Hall of Fame in 2002, will serve as the Grand Marshal for
the 32nd Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, a Champ Cars event, on
April 7-9. The 1982 All-America will also compete in the 10-lap
Pro/Celebrity Race on April 8, hoping to better his sixth place finish in
the race’s 24th annual edition in 2000.
Texas Tech Chapter Banquet to Feature Jerry LeVias
2003 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Jerry LeVias will headline the
fifth annual NFF Texas Tech Chapter scholar-athlete banquet as the guest
speaker on April 17. LeVias made history in 1965, becoming the first
African-American to play football in the Southwest Conference. He led SMU
to the conference championship in 1966, the school’s first in 18 seasons.
As a senior, LeVias earned first team All-America honors as a receiver. In
addition to LeVias, the banquet will feature 17 local high school football
seniors as scholar-athlete award winners.
Extra Points
Twenty-seven members of Karl Dorrell’s UCLA Bruins received recognition on
the director’s honor roll for achieving a 3.0 or better GPA last fall...
Howard “Red” Hickey, credited with innovating the shotgun formation as a
coach for the San Francisco 49ers, died last week at age 89... Former Ricks
College football coach Ron Haun returns to his alma mater to serve as head
coach at Dixie State College as the football program moves from junior
college competition to NCAA Division II this year... ESPNU will air three
spring football games during the month of April: Oklahoma (April 8, 2 p.m.
EST), West Virginia (April 15, 4 p.m.) and Louisville (April 21 7:30
p.m.)... The No. 99 car of Nascar driver Michael Waltrip will display a
national championship decal of the University of Texas in the Busch Series
at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend... Elon added Mitch Rippy as a
volunteer assistant... Kansas State hired former Nebraska quarterback Scott
Frost as a graduate assistant... Lafayette named Joe Dougherty as running
backs coach, Al Holcomb as defensive line coach and J.P. McFeeley as a
defensive assistant... Chris Klieman and Brandon Hall joined the staff at
Northern Iowa as defensive backs coach and linebackers coach,
respectively... Purdue head coach Joe Tiller announced the hiring of Ed
Zaunbrecher as co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach... Stanford
hired Doug Sams as its tackles and tight ends coach... Western Kentucky
hired Andy Richman as an assistant coach/tight ends.
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