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D1 College Football News
6-05-06
Source: www.footballfoundation.com
Coaches Challenge Approved by NCAA Rules Panel
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a rule change last Tuesday
that will allow college football coaches to challenge one call by officials
per game for review by replay, provided the team has an available timeout.
The team will be charged a timeout only if the challenge is unsuccessful and
the call stands. Certain calls such as pass interference and intentional
grounding will not be reviewable. In 2005, the NCAA allowed all conferences
to adopt some form of instant replay, but the only person who could request
a review of a referee’s call was an official sitting in a booth above the
field. The Big Ten Conference first introduced instant replay in college
football with a pilot program in 2003, and the conference adopted a modified
system one year later. Last year, almost all of the 11 Division I-A
conferences used some system of instant replay in their conference games.
ECAC Award of Valor Honors Two College Gridders
Lafayette College 2006 graduate David Nelson and Stonehill College senior
Brian Benvie were among three announced recipients of the 2006 Eastern
College Athletic Conference Award of Valor last week. Nelson, a four-year
letterwinner at fullback and a co-captain for the 2005 Leopards team that
captured a share of the 2005 Patriot League title, returned to action this
year following a near-fatal stabbing in May 2005. Nelson lay dead on an
operating table for about five minutes over Memorial Day weekend last year
at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after being stabbed while
breaking up a fight. A nurse revived Nelson, who was later released from
the hospital following emergency heart surgery and four days of observation.
He returned to start all 12 games for Lafayette this year and scored a pair
of touchdowns. Benvie, who will be a senior this fall at Stonehill College
in Easton, Mass., left his spot on both the offensive and defensive lines on
the football team for an 18-month Army Reserve service term in Iraq.
Stationed west of Baghdad as a US Army MP prison guard, Benvie returned
safely to the U.S. in July 2005, but broke his ankle in the fourth game last
season and needed season-ending surgery. Both Nelson and Benvie will be
honored during the ECAC Convention Honors Dinner on October 1.
Bill Manlove Takes Reins of U.S. Aztec Bowl Team
Longtime head football coach Bill Manlove, who compiled 212 wins in a
32-year coaching career at Widener, Delaware Valley and La Salle, was named
the new head coach of the United States Aztec Bowl team. The squad,
comprised each year of All-Stars from Division III schools, takes on Mexico’ s college national team in a game that began in 1947 and has since been
played 35 times. Manlove succeeds Ron Schipper, the 2000 College Football
Hall of Fame inductee coach who died suddenly on March 27. Manlove owns two
NCAA Division III championships, both earned while head coach at Widener,
and received AFCA National Coach of the Year honors in 1977. Schipper
coached the U.S. team for nine years, including the 2005 team that defeated
Mexico, 53-15, in Toluca, Mexico. The 2006 game will be played on December
16 at a yet-to-be-determined site.
Two-Minute Drill
Old Dominion voted to add football on the Division I-AA level beginning play
in the 2009 season... Notre Dame safety Tom Zbikowski will make his
professional boxing debut this Saturday in Madison Square Garden in a
heavyweight fight against Robert Bell... The annual Civil War between Oregon
and Oregon State will be played this year on November 24, the first time the
rivalry game will be played on a Friday since 1927... South Carolina coach
Steve Spurrier will make his first return trip to the University of Florida
on September 2 as the Gators commemorate their 1996 national championship
team, which Spurrier coached... President George W. Bush nominated Henry M.
Paulson, Jr. to be the new U.S. Treasury Secretary last week. Paulson
earned All-Ivy League honors as an offensive lineman at Dartmouth in 1967...
Former BYU two-time captain Brad Martin, who played for the Cougars from
1995-1998, died last week at his home... Arizona State reached an agreement
to broadcast every football game during the 2006 season in Spanish on KIDR
740 AM, Spanish Radio... Players and coaches from the University of Iowa
football program started a year-long partnership with the DeGowin Blood
Center at the school’s Hospital by donating blood last week... Florida
Citrus Sports, the operating arm of the Capital One and Champs Sports Bowls,
is hosting the Lighthouse Central Florida (LCF) rehabilitative services
provider while their facility in Orlando undergoes renovations... Southern
California and Colorado State cancelled their game scheduled in 2008...
Pat Bishop received the Howard Palmer Award for her extended service from
Florida Citrus Sports... CBS SportsLine’s Dennis Dodd became the first
journalist working solely for an internet site to receive the Fred Russell
Outstanding Sportswriter Award... Tony Barnhart, the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution’s national college sports writer, will receive the 2006
Jake Wade Award at the CoSIDA convention on July 3 in Nashville... Shelly
Poe, the longtime sports information director at West Virginia University,
will receive induction into the College Sports Information Directors
(CoSIDA) Hall of Fame on July 5...
Alamo Bowl officials are contemplating moving the date of their 2007 game,
which pits teams from the Big 12 and the Big Ten conferences against one
another, from late December to January 7... The SEC meetings held this past
week in Destin, Fla., marked the first time all 12 head coaches returned
from the previous season since 1988, according to the Associated Press...
Navy and the Meinecke Car Care Bowl reached an agreement that assures a spot
in the Charlotte, N.C., game to either the Midshipmen or the Big East
third-place finisher...
Don Wade, the former head football coach at Tennessee Tech, was among three
inductees into the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame last week... Longtime
Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder and former Kansas quarterback Bobby
Douglass headlined a class of 14 inductees into the Kansas Sports Hall of
Fame last week...
Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz received a significant pay raise to $2.84
million this week after leading the Hawkeyes to four consecutive January
bowl games... Ron Zook added former Akron offensive coordinator Jim Pry as
an offensive assistant and tight ends coach on his staff at the University
of Illinois.
Schedule Spotlight: Mid-American Conference
Team – Date – First Opponent (Home/Away/Neutral Site)
Akron – September 2 – Penn State (A)
Ball State – August 31 – Eastern Michigan (H)
Bowling Green – September 2 – Wisconsin (N)
Buffalo – August 31 – Temple (H)
Central Michigan – August 31 – Boston College (H)
Eastern Michigan – August 31 – Ball State (A)
Kent State – August 31 – Minnesota (H)
Miami (OH) – August 31 – Northwestern (H)
Northern Illinois – September 2 – Ohio State (A)
Ohio – September 2 – Tennessee-Martin (H)
Temple – August 31 – Buffalo (A)
Toledo – August 31 – Iowa State (A)
Western Michigan – September 2 – Indiana (A)
With 119 chapters and 12,000 members nationwide, The National Football
Foundation & College Hall of Fame, a non-profit educational organization,
runs programs designed to use the power of amateur football in developing
scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement in young people. The NFF
presents the MacArthur Trophy, the Draddy Trophy and releases the Bowl
Championship Series (BCS) Standings. NFF programs include the College
Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., Play It Smart, the NFF Center for
Youth Development Through Sport at Springfield College (Mass.), the NFL-NFF
Coaching Academy, and scholarships of over $1 million for college and high
school scholar-athletes. |
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