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D1 College Football News
6-19-06
Source: www.footballfoundation.com
Maxwell, Bednarik Watch Lists Include 64 Seniors
Two of college football's top individual awards, the Maxwell and the
Bednarik Awards, included the names of 60 Division I-A standouts on their
2006 watch lists, as released by the Maxwell Football Club last week. Among
those on the Bednarik watch list is last year's winner, linebacker Paul
Posluszny of Penn State. Presented for the first time following the 1937
season to Yale's Clint Frank, the Maxwell Award honors the collegiate player
of the year as voted on by the Maxwell Football Club. Forty-five past
Maxwell winners grace the walls of the College Football Hall of Fame as
enshrinees, while another two, Charlie Ward and Mike Rozier, will receive
induction into the Hall at the NFF's 49th Annual Awards Dinner this December
5 in New York. The Bednarik Award, first handed out in 1995, annually
recognizes the top college defensive player of the year. Both awards are
among a full slate of honors presented during the Maxwell Football Club's
Annual Awards Dinner following the season.
State of Delaware Joins NFF Family with 120th Chapter
More than 60 members of the newest chapter of the National Football
Foundation, the Delaware Chapter, joined administrators from Delaware State
University and the NFF in Dover on Tuesday to charter the first NFF chapter
in the state of Delaware. Spearheaded by the leadership of Delaware State
president Dr. Allen Sessoms, athletics director Chuck Bell and head coach Al
Lavan, the chapter's formation now brings an NFF presence in the amateur
football community to 47 states. Tuesday's event officially welcomed 64 of
the 88 charter members into the NFF's ranks. "Bringing Delaware into the
fold as our newest chapter represents a landmark moment in the growth of our
organization," said NFF President Steve Hatchell.
Postseason a Familiar Refrain for Clemson & Miami (Fla.) in 05-06
Clemson and Miami (Fla.), two of the eight participants in this year's
College World Series, were the only two schools of the octet who also
appeared in postseason play in both football and men's basketball this
season. Both the Tigers, who appeared in the Champs Sports Bowl against
Colorado last December, and Miami, who faced LSU in the Chick-fil-A Peach
Bowl on New Year's Eve, qualified for spots in the 2006 NIT basketball
tournament. Overall, 15 schools secured a spot in the postseason in
football, men's basketball and baseball this year. In addition to Clemson
and Miami (Fla.), BCS bowl teams Florida State, Notre Dame and BCS national
champions Texas also were among the 105 men's basketball teams and 64
baseball teams in NCAA postseason tournaments this year. Other bowl
qualifiers reaching the postseason in all three this year include Alabama,
Houston, Kansas, Michigan, NC State, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
UCLA and Virginia.
Two-Minute Drill
The National Football Foundation will host a Celebrity Golf Classic on July
17 at Hawthorn Woods Country Club in Chicago to benefit the NFF's Play It
Smart program. More information can be found at
www.footballfoundation.com... Tulsa's Garrett Mills, a 2005 Draddy Trophy
Finalist, received Conference USA's football scholar-athlete of the year
award last year... Jerry Rice, a 2006 College Football Hall of Fame
inductee, will be the new host of "The Afternoon Blitz" radio show on Sirius
Satellite Radio... Denise Konan, the chancellor at the University of Hawaii,
was named the chairperson of the Western Athletic Conference Board of
Directors, the first women named in this post in the conference's 45-year
history...
Former Iowa State quarterback Cris Love, who lettered for the Cyclones in
both 2003 and 2004, died last week after battling cancer... Nebraska's
football team will administer pills to a dozen players on their roster this
summer that help track the body temperatures of each patient and transmit
data to a hand-held recorder to help detect heat-related problems... An
exhibit designer and a fundraiser were hired last week to help move along
plans to build a new museum honoring former Grambling coach Eddie Robinson
in Louisiana... A new documentary detailing the history of UCLA athletics,
titled "Generations in Blue and Gold", is being co-produced by Bruins
athletics director Dan Guerrero... Utah State teamed with Nike this
offseason to redesign the uniforms for the Aggie football squad this season.
The new uniforms will be on display in Utah State's season opener at Wyoming
on September 2...
The Big 12 Conference distributed over $100 million to its member schools
this year for the second consecutive year... Kansas expects their athletic
budget for this year to top $41 million, a jump of more than 50% in just
three years thanks to an aggressive fund-raising campaign... The Big Ten
Conference will hold their annual Football Kickoff Luncheon on August 2nd in
Chicago... The athletics department at the University of Alabama recently
donated $1 million to the university's general scholarship fund... The Gator
Bowl donated almost $40,000 last week, raised through a 5K Run and Parade,
to Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville... The Emerald Bowl retained
ISP Sports to serve as their exclusive sales representative...
Hall of Famer Dan Dierdorf will entertain the crowd this Thursday at the
College Football Hall of Fame as part of the KeyBank Gridiron Legends
Luncheon Series... Florida Citrus Sports will kick-off their 2006-07 Speaker
Series this Friday in Orlando with Michigan coach Lloyd Carr... University
of Houston football coach Art Briles and athletics director Dave Maggard
began their annual summer Skeeter's Coaches Road Tour around the city last
week to meet with Cougars fans... Washington State coach Bill Doba
participated in the Wenatchee Valley Golf Classic last week as part of an
annual golf tour to raise money for Cougar athletics...
Ole Miss and Memphis officially moved their season opener this year from
Saturday, September 2 to 3:30 CT on Sunday, September 3... UCLA and Kansas
State, who have never met on the gridiron, will shortly announce a
home-and-home series for the 2009 and 2010 seasons... Ohio State and Toledo
agreed to a two-game series, a game at Cleveland Browns Stadium in 2009 and
one in Columbus in 2011... The annual Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn,
along with all other primary rivalry games in the SEC, will now be played on
Thanksgiving weekend thanks to a new rule passed by the conference last
week... TCU's and Baylor's season-opener, originally scheduled for September
2 in Waco, will now be played on Sunday, September 3...
Arizona State will introduce approximately 150 "Sun Devil Laws" this year
applying to both players and fans as part of their Pride in the Desert ad
campaign... Cincinnati held the first of three open forums last week for
fans to give their input on a series of upcoming athletic department
initiatives, including tinkering with their Bearcat logo... UCLA's True Blue
Celebration auction last Saturday to benefit the athletics department
included a tailgate party for 50 at the Rose Bowl and deluxe ticket packages
for the Bruins' game at Notre Dame this year... Fresno State auctioned off
the opportunity to join football coaches and players for pregame
introductions during their home opener against Nevada last week as part of
their summer-long 100 Days to Bulldog Football Countdown... Penn State began
their inaugural football fantasy camp last week, which gives fans the
opportunity to live like a Penn State football player for four days...
Oklahoma's Football Kicking Camp, taught this year by former Sooners Uwe Von
Schamann and Scott Blanton, drew nearly 40 junior high and high school
players to Norman...
Renovations at Stanford Stadium, begun immediately after their final home
game last fall, are on pace to be completed just in time for their home
opener against Navy on September 16... FieldTurf will be installed at War
Memorial Stadium in Little Rock this summer in time for Arkansas's games
this year against Louisiana-Monroe and LSU... $18 million renovations taking
place at Ohio State on the Woody Hayes Athletic Center for OSU football are
scheduled to be completed in time for the start of preseason football
camp... Colorado has opened discussions about returning the playing surface
at Folsom Field to artificial turf...
Texas A&M AD Bill Byrne received recognition during the National
Sportsmanship Awards banquet last weekend in St. Louis for his leadership in
welcoming Tulane student-athletes to Aggies' athletics facilities in the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Other honorees at the event, hosted by Bob
Costas, included former Northern Illinois standout Hollis Thomas and former
Memphis wide receiver Isaac Bruce... COSIDA named Louisiana-Monroe director
of media relations Judy Wilson as their 2006 recipient of the Bob Kenworthy
Award... Former New Mexico tight end Logan Hall and five other MBA students
from New Mexico won the 2006 Cadillac Case Study Competition in Detroit last
month...
Former Virginia Tech quarterback and 1991 Draddy Trophy Finalist Will Furrer
was inducted into the Fork Union Military Academy Sports Hall of Fame last
Thursday... Former Central Florida assistant coach Alan Gooch and linebacker
Rick Hamilton will be among five former Golden Knights inducted into the UCF
Athletics Hall of Fame this October... Former Notre Dame walk-on Michael
Geddes received an honorary monogram from the school for his exceptional
service to the university...
Longtime NCAA statistician Rick Campbell, who helped compile and edit the
NCAA Football Records Book, retired after 20 years on the job... Former
Linfield College head coach Jay Locey was named the new tight ends and
running backs coach at Oregon State... Linfield College named Joe Smith as
its new head coach... South Carolina State athletics director Charlene
Johnson and football coach Buddy Pough both received multiyear contract
extensions last week... North Carolina AD Dick Baddour received a two-year
contract extension through 2009... Joe Glenn, the head coach at Wyoming,
received a contract extension that will keep him in Laramie through the 2010
season... Maryland hired former Temple coach Phil Zacharias as their new
running backs coach... Ball State head coach Brady Hoke added Sidney Powell
and John Powers as assistant coaches... Mark Moroz joined his alma mater's
staff at Wake Forest as the program's recruiting assistant... Gregory
Christopher was named the new director of athletics at Bowling Green
State... Tennessee extended the contract of athletics director Mike Hamilton
through 2011... Ohio State hired Douglas Archie as its new assistant
athletic director for compliance.
Schedule Spotlight: Pacific-10 Conference
Team - Date - First Opponent (Home/Away)
Arizona - September 2 - Brigham Young (H)
Arizona State - August 31 - Northern Arizona (H)
California - September 2 - Tennessee (A)
Oregon - September 2 - Stanford (H)
Oregon State - August 31 - Eastern Washington (H)
Stanford - September 2 - Oregon (A)
USC - September 2 - Arkansas (A)
UCLA - September 2 - Utah (H)
Washington - September 2 - San Jose State (H)
Washington State - September 2 - Auburn (A)
With 120 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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