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NFF Chalktalk - Aug. 22, 2016
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Harry Gilmer, a 1993 College Football Hall of Fame inductee from Alabama, passed away Aug. 20. At 90 years old, he was the seventh-oldest living Hall of Fame player. Celebrated for his "jump pass," he held numerous Alabama career records when he left the Crimson Tide, and many of his marks went unbroken for decades. Gilmer holds the distinction as the only Alabama player to finish in the top five of Heisman Trophy balloting twice.
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The Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) and the NFF announced that they will partner for the third consecutive year to conduct t
he FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll
, the organizations' weekly major-college football poll. The results will be
released by 11:30 a.m. ET each Sunday
of the regular 2016 season, and the plans include a preseason poll. The NFF also announced the schedule for the poll's release and the 2016 poll voters.
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2016 College Football Season Kicks Off This Week
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The 2016 college football season officially kicks off this week! The NAIA gets its season started on Thursday with a full slate of games during the weekend.
Then on Friday, California and Hawaii meet in the first FBS game of the season in Sydney, Australia. The game will kick off at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN and will feature Allen Bestwick, College Football Hall of Fame coach Mike Bellotti and Warren Smith on the broadcast.
The FCS season kicks off Saturday as Charleston Southern travels to the Fargodome to take on five-time defending national champion North Dakota State. The game will air on ESPN at 7:30 p.m. ET and feature Adam Amin, Mack Brown and Molly McGrath on the broadcast.
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2016 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Nominations
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Nomination forms for the NFF's coveted National Scholar-Athlete Awards, presented by Fidelity Investments, have been sent to collegiate sports information directors. The deadline for submissions will be Wednesday, Aug. 31.
Eligible candidates must be a senior or graduate student in their final year of eligibility; have a cumulative 3.2 GPA (undergrad); be a starter or significant contributor; and have outstanding leadership and citizenship. Official transcripts as well as a head shot and action photo of the nominee are required.
Each member of the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class will receive an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship. One honoree will be selected as the winner of the NFF
William V. Campbell Trophy
, presented by Fidelity Investments, and will have his scholarship increased to $25,000. All members of the class will be honored guests at the 59th NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Dec. 6.
For any questions pertaining to the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards, please email NFF Director of Special Projects
Hillary Jeffries
at
[email protected]
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Aug. 28, College Football Hall of Fame Homecoming Party -
Celebrate the second annual Homecoming at the College Football Hall of Fame and Chick-fil-A Fan Experience on Sunday, Aug. 28 from 6-9 pm! Guests will have the opportunity to enjoy the event with the 2006 and 2011 Hall of Fame Classes and live band performances from Yacht Rock Schooner and Electric Avenue! Tickets also include food and drinks, complimentary tickets for the Hall of Fame Raffle and chances to win large prizes from vendors like Kendra Scott, Getaway 2 Give Collection and more in our live auction. Tickets are $150. Click here or call (404) 880-4800 for more information.
Aug. 29, College Football Hall of Fame Golf Classic-
The Hall will host its second annual golf classic at Eastlake Golf Course in Atlanta on Monday, Aug. 29. Participating golfers will get the chance to play in a fivesome with a Hall of Famer. Registration will begin at 7 a.m. ET and tee time will start promptly at 9 a.m. The Hall will host an awards luncheon immediately following the tournament where prizes will be given to the first, second and third place winners. Prizes will also be awarded to the hole in one, closest to the pin and longest drive contest winners. For more information, please call (404) 880-4842.
Aug. 30, Kickoff to Playoff Luncheon- The 2016 Kickoff to Playoff Luncheon brought to you by the College Football Hall of Fame and Chick-fil-A Fan Experience, the Atlanta Sports Council and the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will take place on the Hall's indoor football field on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at 11:30 a.m. ET. Hear from College Football Playoff Executive Director
Bill Hancock and other sports industry leaders on the new college playoff system and the upcoming season. Individual tickets are $100 per person and tables can be purchased for $900. For more information, please call (404) 880-4842.
Sept. 1, South Carolina vs. Vanderbilt Viewing Party: Come eat, drink, and watch the Vanderbilt vs. South Carolina game on the Hall's 36 foot-high-definition video screen.
Tickets are just $25.
Sept. 2, College Colors Day: Fans wearing their school gear at the Hall
will win big prizes for their local alumni associations!
Sept. 3, Georgia Tech vs. Boston College & Georgia vs. North Carolina Viewing Parties:
Come eat, drink and watch the best college football games of the season at the Tailgate Viewing Parties presented by Dos Equis at the College Football Hall of Fame! Tickets include access to the Hall of Fame, food and your first drink! Watch Georgia Tech take on Boston College in Dublin, Ireland, at 7:30 a.m., then stick around to watch the Georgia Bulldogs face the North Carolina Tar Heels in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game at 4:30 p.m. Enjoy each game from the Hall's 45-yard indoor football field and watch on our 36-foot high-definition video board. All this for just $25! Click here to get your tickets to watch the Georgia Tech and Boston College viewing party
and click here for tickets for the Georgia and North Carolina viewing party
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Special Offer
: Georgia Tech
has teamed up
with the College Football Hall of Fame to offer a combo ticket for their games against Vanderbilt (Sept. 17) and Georgia Southern (Oct. 15)!
Special Exhibit:
Fans can continue to experience a limited-engagement exhibit at the Hall, delivered by UPS, "All-Star Saturdays: A Century of America's Best." The exhibit features artifacts from the East-West Shrine Game, the College All-Star Game and a h
ost
of artifacts and memorabilia from historic all-star games.
New Virtual Reality Exhibit: In conjunction with AT&T, the Hall announced it has completed the installation of the new AT&T Virtual Stadium, incorporating Samsung Gear VR and immersing f
ans in the middle of all the action at more than 20 stadiums during some of the biggest rivalry games from each season.
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The College Football Hall of Fame opened its doors Aug. 23, 2014, in the heart of Atlanta's sports, entertainment and tourism district. Adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park, the new Hall provides visitors with a highly immersive, interactive and engaging experience using a blend of historic college football artifacts and state-of-the-art, interactive multimedia exhibits. To plan your visit and purchase tickets, visit
www.cfbhall.com.
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NFF Board Member and Dallas Cowboys owner, president and general manager Jerry Jones was selected by the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Contributors Committee as finalists for the Class of 2017.
NFL Network's new season of the Emmy-nominated series, A Football Life, will feature NFF Board Member and College Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman (UCLA), Hall of Famers Jim Brown (Syracuse) and Pat Tillman (Arizona State) and Hall of Famer and 1983 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Steve Young (BYU). Others who will be featured include former players Brett Favre (Southern Miss), Kevin Greene (Auburn) and Curtis Martin (Pittsburgh).
College Football Hall of Famer Zach Thomas will become the newest member of the Texas Tech Football Ring of Honor Oct. 22 prior to the Red Raiders game against Oklahoma.
Decalon Brooks, the son of 2016 College Football Hall of Fame electee Derrick Brooks, has orally committed to play football at his father's alma mater Florida State.
2016 College Football Hall of Fame electee Marlin Briscoe (Nebraska Omaha) will be honored with the 2016 Tom Osborne Leadership Award Sept. 25 at the seventh annual Tom Osborne Leadership Award Banquet at the Lochland Country Club in Hastings, Neb.
College Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown will be honored by the Syracuse University Alumni Association with the 2016 Arents Award Sept. 16 in the Goldstein Auditorium at the Schine Student Center. The award is the highest alumni honor bestowed by the university.
College Football Hall of Famer Kenny Easley (UCLA) was selected as the Senior Finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2017.
West Virginia will
retire No. 77 in honor of the late College Football Hall of Famer
Bruce Bosley during its season opener against Missouri Sept. 3.
Crowley High School (Texas) will name the field at its football stadium in honor of College Football Hall of Famer
Gary Reasons (Northwestern State) during its game on Aug. 26.
FOX Sports unveiled its full lineup of college football game and studio broadcasters, which includes College Football Hall of Famer Chris Spielman (Ohio State).
College Football Hall of Fame coach Lloyd Carr will step down from the College Football Playoff selection committee due to health issues.
The home of College Football Hall of Fame coach Jake Gaither was named to the National Register of Historic Places.
2015 NFF National Scholar-Athlete E.K. Binns (Navy) was named to the 2015-16 American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.
2009 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Joe Pawelek is one of five who will be honored as Baylor Football Legends during select 2016 home football games. The other four players are Steve Grumbine, Jordan Lake, Jason Smith and John Westbrook.
ESPN College GameDay, the 2006 recipient of the NFF Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award, will kick off the 2016 season live from Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., on Saturday, Sept. 3, for the LSU-Wisconsin game.
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The Nebraska Football Hall of Fame, which is sponsored by the
NFF Nebraska Chapter
,
will hold
its 2016 induction dinner
on the University of Nebraska campus on Sept. 9. The class will be introduced prior to Nebraska's game with Wyoming on Sept. 10. This year's class includes former Huskers Kris Brown, Adam Carriker, Scott Raridon and Dean Sukup and former Doane (Neb.) player Fred Davis.
The NFF Tom Lombardo/St. Louis Chapter will host its annual Paul Savage Sr. Memorial Golf Tournament on Sept. 11 at Columbia Golf Club in Columbia, Ill. Proceeds from the tournament go toward the chapter's scholarship program. The chapter will then host its first luncheon of the season Sept. 14 at Lombardo's-Airport restaurant longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports writer Jim Thomas.
The NFF Sacramento Valley (Calif.) Chapter featured 17 high school coaches, two community college head coaches and Sacramento State head coach Jody Sears at its annual kickoff breakfast on Aug. 21. Incoming chapter president John Volek welcomed the coaches, who each provided a short preview of their respective upcoming seasons.
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New Football Schools
Indiana Wesleyan
broke ground
for on its new football stadium, which is expected to be ready when the team takes the field for the first time in 2018...
Scheduling
Syracuse and Army West Point agreed to a future four game series scheduled between 2023-26... UAB and Tulane have agreed to a home-and-home series in 2018 and 2021... Tulane also scheduled future games against FIU, Grambling State and Nicholls State... SMU will host Houston Baptist in 2018...
Bowl Games
Dollar General was announced as the title sponsor for the bowl game in Mobile, Ala., replacing GoDaddy... Fort Worth, Texas, based Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet has signed a multi-year agreement to become an official sponsor of the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl...
People
Fort Valley State (Ga.) announced Dr. Darryl A. Pope as its director of athletics... Albany State (Ga.) named Sherie Cornish Gordon athletics director... The Division I FCS Athletics Directors Association selected Tennessee Tech AD Mark Wilson to serve as president during the 2016-17 season... Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh received a raise through 2021... Former Colorado State quarterback and athletics director Mark Driscoll was named as the Rams' football color analyst...
Awards and Honors
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney received the 2016 Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award from the United States Sports Academy... Former football players Bo Davies, Jimmy Mitchell and Sidney Rice and former head football coaches Jim Carlen and Billy Laval have been elected to the University of South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame... The Division 2 Athletics Directors Association announced the 2015-16 recipients of the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Awards... Memphis' Jake Elliott was selected as the recipient of the 2015-16 Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award for football...
Media
Conference USA and ESPN3 are collaborating to stream a number of live football games this fall... Conference USA and Campus Insiders have entered into a partnership to stream six football games this season... Ivy League football will experience its most expansive national television coverage ever with 21 live broadcasts in 2016... Wingate (N.C.) will begin the second year of its streaming agreement with ESPN3 this fall... As part of a deal between ESPN3 and the MAC, Ohio athletics is set to launch its self-produced ESPN3 network this fall...
Facilities
Louisville
celebrated the grand opening of its Thorntons Academic Center of Excellence... Clemson's new state-of-the-art football complex is slated to be completed Jan. 26... When Utah State opens the season on Sept. 1, a $36 million renovation project to Maverik Stadium will be complete... Western Kentucky and Med Center Health are partnering to build an on-campus sports medicine complex... Buffalo has signed on with an architecture firm to design a new on-campus fieldhouse and sports performance center... Baldwin Wallace (Ohio) has added a state-of-the-art video scoreboard at George Finnie Stadium... Minot State (N.D.) provided an exclusive look at its new seasonal air-supported multisport dome...
Donations
East Carolina announced a $1 million leadership commitment from the Walter and Marie Williams Foundation in support of the Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Southside Renovation Campaign... The Temple Owl Club experienced a third consecutive record-setting fundraising year... Former Northern Michigan quarterback Keith Nelsen recently established and endowed a football scholarship at the university... Central Oklahoma athletics shattered fundraising records during the fiscal year of 2015-16, raising more than $5 million in gifts... Northern State (S.D.)'s Wolves Club has set a new record for annual giving...
High School Football
Donnybrook Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, will play host to a triple-header of high school American Football games, on Sept. 2, with all proceeds from the day's events being donated to Special Olympics Ireland...
Marketing and Uniforms
Cincinnati unveiled a new line of uniforms... Pittsburgh unveiled new retro alternate uniforms... Tulane has reintroduced the "Angry Wave" as a secondary logo... Virginia Tech unveiled an alternate uniform for the Pilot Flying J Battle at Bristol against Tennessee on Sept. 10...
Milestones
Colorado State announced that new stadium indoor and outdoor club seating has sold out more than one year ahead of 2017 stadium opening...
Community Service
MaxPreps, in conjunction with PLEDGE IT and St. Jude Children's Hospital, launched Touchdowns Against Cancer, a national campaign to fight childhood cancer with fans pledging money for every touchdown their high school team scores between Sept. 15 and Oct. 1... After getting flood aid from LSU, South Carolina pays it forward to Baton Rouge...
More News of Interest
Oregon wide receiver
Devon Allen
finished fifth in the finals for the 110m hurdles at the Rio Olympics...
Obituaries
A former football player and the longtime athletics director at Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.), James "Moose" Malmquist, passed away Aug. 17. He also served as head football coach and athletics director at Texas Lutheran, Augustana (S.D.) and Bemidji State (Minn.). He was 85... Former Washington quarterback Bob Dunn passed away Aug. 5. He was 82... Former San Jose State offensive lineman Leon Donohue passed away Aug. 11. He was 77... Former Wisconsin quarterback Ron Vander Kelen passed away Aug. 14. He was 76... Former Rowan (N.J.) head football coach Richard Wackar passed away Aug. 15. He was 88...
Jo Lynn White, the wife of College Football Hall of Famer Danny White (Arizona State), passed away Aug. 15. She was 63... Former Kutztown (Pa.) defensive end Brett Moss died Aug. 16. He was 26... Former Mississippi State offensive lineman Kyle Wallace died Aug. 17. He was 36... Former New York University football player Paul Elia passed away Aug. 17. He was 89... Former Gannon (Pa.) offensive lineman Michael Palermo died Aug. 18. He was 45... Former Baylor football player and World War II pilot Weldon Bigony passed away. He was 96... Former Illinois running back Daniel Dufrene has died... Former Nevada football player Max Culp passed away. He was 77...
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Each year, the NFF invites universities, colleges, conferences and bowl games from across the country to provide support for NFF programs through its Institutional Academic Membership Program. The program allows the NFF to greatly enhance the power of football's collective voice while actively building a stronger national platform for the game with community leaders, educators and the media.
Those that joined this week include Presidential Members Michigan and the Southland Conference; Founder Member North Dakota State; and Executive Members Arkansas State, Dartmouth, Delaware State, Eastern Washington, Oregon State, Western Illinois and Western Kentucky.
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Since 1959, the National Football Foundation has annually recognized the best and brightest college players, presenting them with prestigious NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards, presented by Fidelity Investments. The $18,000 postgraduate scholarships are presented at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner in New York City.
Launched in 2008, the NFF Scholar-Athlete Alumni Association provides a powerful vehicle for past honorees to remain in the vanguard of the NFF's present efforts.
Click here to see all of the members of the 2016 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Alumni Association.
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Sept. 28, 2016
- Announcement of the semifinalists for the 2016 William V. Campbell Trophy, presented by Fidelity Investments and prominently displayed at the NYAC - Irving, Texas
Nov. 1, 2016 - Announcement of the 2016
William V. Campbell Trophy finalists, which comprise the 2016 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class,
presented by Fidelity Investments - Irving, Texas
Dec. 5, 2016
- Presentation of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup to the Ivy League Football Players of the Year at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel at an event presented by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses - New York City
Dec. 6, 2016
- NFF Annual Awards Press Conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel - New York City
Dec. 6, 2016
- NFF Chapter Awards Luncheon, presented by Under Armour, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel - New York City
Dec. 6, 2016
- 59th NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria - New York City, including the induction of the 2016 College Football Hall of Fame Class and the 27th presentation of the William V. Campbell Trophy, presented by Fidelity Investments and prominently displayed at the New York Athletic Club.
Dec. 31, 2016
- The 12th Annual NFF National Hall of Fame Salute during the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl - Atlanta
Jan. 5, 2017
- NFF Leadership Hall of Fame Induction Dinner of Tod Leiweke - Tampa, Fla.
Jan. 9, 2017
- Announcement of the 2017 College Football Hall of Fame Class - Tampa, Fla.
Jan. 9, 2017
- College Football Playoff National Championship at Raymond James Stadium - Tampa, Fla.
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The NFF would like to thank NFF correspondent Bo Carter for his contributions to this report.
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