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NFF Chalktalk - Aug. 30, 2016
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| The NFF announced that several members of its NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class, presented by Fidelity Investments, will take center stage during the 15th Annual Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum Dec. 7-8 in New York City at the New York Marriott Marquis at Times Square. The participation of the NFF National Scholar-Athletes is part of a partnership that began in 2013 between the Sports Business Daily/Global/Journal of the Street & Smith's Sports Group and the NFF to promote the Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum. |
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2016 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Nominations End Wednesday
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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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Defending national champion Alabama took the top spot in the Preseason FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll announced last week. Clemson, Oklahoma, Florida State and LSU round out the top five in the poll, in which voters rank the top 16 FBS teams.
The results of the poll will be released every Sunday of the 2016 season and the individual votes of all members will also be made public. The first poll will be released Sept. 6 (to account for Labor Day games), and the final poll will be released Dec. 4. The pollsters consist of FWAA writers and College Football Hall of Famers.
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The NFF salutes and thanks its grassroots leaders, who serve as the chapter presidents of the organization's nationwide network of 120 outposts in 47 states with 12,000 members who fulfill the NFF's mission of Building Leaders Through Football.
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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
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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.
In the News:
WXIA, the NBC affiliate in Atlanta,
took an in-depth look
at the College Football Hall Fame and the significance of having the prestigious facility in Atlanta's Centennial Park.
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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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Next Week:
Condoleezza Rice on the value of football
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NFF Board Member and College Football Hall of Famer Roger Staubach, who played one year at New Mexico Military Institute before going to Navy, was inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame.
NFF Board Member and Dallas Cowboys owner, president and general manager Jerry Jones officially opened the Cowboys' new headquarters and practice facility with a high school football quadruple-header on Aug. 27. All four games were sold out and were played in the Ford Center, the team's 12,000-seat indoor facility.
College Football Hall of Famer Bobby Bell (Minnesota) and Hall of Fame coach Tommy Prothro will be inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame Jan. 1. Former Southern California running back Ricky Ervins and award-winning sports writer Art Spander are also in the class.
Florida is
adding
College Football Hall of Fame player and 2017 Hall of Fame coach candidate Steve Spurrier's name to Florida Field. Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium will be unveiled Sept. 3.
College Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Snyder enters the 2016 season seven Kansas State victories away from reaching 200 wins in his career. He would be the 39th coach to reach that mark at one school.
College Football Hall of Famer, 2005 NFF Distinguished American Award recipient and former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page has been named the 2016 recipient of the Notre Dame Monogram Club's Moose Krause Distinguished Service Award. He will be presented with the award the weekend of Oct. 28-29.
A new statue of College Football Hall of Fame coach Hayden Fry will be
unveiled
to the public during this year's FRYfest celebration in Coralville, Iowa, on Sept. 2.
College Football Hall of Famer Mark May (Pittsburgh) and
Hall of Fame coach Lou Holtz will host the 2016 Fiesta Bowl Kickoff Luncheon Aug. 31 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. Former Notre Dame defensive tackle Bertrand Berry will also take part in the event.
College Football Hall of Famer coach Lou Holtz will be
inducted
into the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor during the weekend of Sept. 1-3 in Fayetteville, Ark. Former Razorback football players Gregory Lasker and Danny Rhodes will also be inducted.
College Football Hall of Famer Darrell Green (Texas A&M-Kingsville) is joining George Mason University as an associate athletics director and special assistant to the athletics director.
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.
College Football Hall of Famer Keith Jackson (Oklahoma) will step down from his role as Arkansas' radio analyst after this season.
2015 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Jordan Italiano (Kent State) was named the male recipient of the MAC's 2016 Bob James Memorial Scholarship Award.
2011 NFF Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award recipient Verne Lundquist begins his final season calling college football for CBS on Saturday with the UCLA-Texas A&M game at 3:30 p.m. ET.
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 Little Rock Touchdown Club/NFF Arkansas Chapter announced its 2016 lineup of speakers for the fall. Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema kicked off the series Aug. 22, and it continued Aug. 29 with former NFL coach and current ESPN broadcaster Herm Edwards. College Football Hall of Famer and 1996 Campbell Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel (Florida) will speak Sept. 6. Future speakers include Arkansas athletics director Jeff Long (Sept. 12), former Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel (Sept. 19), College Football Hall of Famer Brian Bosworth from Oklahoma (Sept. 26), former Arkansas quarterbacks Tyler Wilson and Casey Dick (Oct. 3), former Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer (Oct. 10), Arkansas State head coach Blake Anderson (Oct. 17), the Arkansas Razorback Southwest Conference Hall of Fame Class of 2016 (Oct. 24), Central Arkansas head coach Steve Campbell (Oct. 31), former Arkansas safety Ken Hamlin (Nov. 7), Texas athletics director and 1968 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Mike Perrin (Nov. 14) and former Notre Dame All-American and current CBS Sports analyst Aaron Taylor (Nov. 21). The chapter also announced that NFF Chairman, 2016 NFF Gold Medal recipient and College Football Hall of Famer Archie Manning (Mississippi) will speak at the club's postseason banquet in January.
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.
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New Football Schools - Games
Scheduling
Tennessee added future home games against UTEP, Chattanooga, UAB, Charlotte, Bowling Green, Ball State and Army West Point... South Alabama and Tulane have moved their future series to the 2025 and 2026 seasons... Utah State and Washington State will play a home-and-home series in 2020 and 2021... Missouri added future games with Troy and Miami (Ohio)... Idaho will play at Washington State in 2020 and has canceled a four-game series with San Jose State... Ball State added Fordham to its 2019 schedule...
College Football Playoff
The CFP Selection Committee met last week in preparation for the upcoming season...
Bowl Games
Lockheed Martin has agreed to extend its title sponsorship of the Armed Forces Bowl for another three years...
Awards and Honors
Longtime football media relations director John Bianco and former football players Leonard Davis and Aaron Ross have been elected to the University of Texas Men's and Women's Athletics Halls of Honor... Former football player Lee Evans was elected to the University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame... Former football player Bill Hadden and the 1976 football team are part of Akron's Varsity "A" Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2016...
Media
Sports Illustrated and FOX Sports agreed to an editorial and advertising partnership involving the creation of a joint digital sports network... The Pac-12 and FOX Sports Australia announced a multi-year partnership to televise 13 Pac-12 football games in Australia annually... beIN SPORTS announced the lineup of original programming for the 2016 Conference USA football season... Penn State athletics is launching a virtual reality channel... The Ivy League announced numerous improvements to The Ivy League Digital Network... All six UMass 2016 home games will be distributed by the American Sports Network and will be carried locally on New England Sports Network (NESN), in addition to availability on ESPN3...
Ahead of the 2016 college football season, SiriusXM has enhanced its college sports play-by-play offerings with a new five-year broadcasting agreement with Learfield and IMG... Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy recently released the first head coaching app in professional or collegiate sports... Veteran broadcaster and past NFF Annual Awards Dinner emcee Mike Tirico and former Michigan linebacker Dhani Jones are joining the Notre Dame Football on NBC broadcast team...
Facilities
The Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation announced a generous gift from Mickey and Lee Segal that will support the renovation and preservation of the original locker room at the Rose Bowl Stadium... Oregon recently
opened the Marcus Mariota Sports Performance Center... Southern Miss unveiled its renovated football locker room... Football stadium renovations at Kansas State have given games a new feel... Mississippi is adding four new LED video displays to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium... UAB officially broke ground on its Football Operations Center and Legacy Pavilion... Virginia Tech approved major, wide-ranging athletics facility improvements...
Donations
Rams Club members contributed nearly $62 million in support of North Carolina athletics in 2015-16, a record-level... The Rutgers athletics department raised a record $30.3 million during fiscal year 2016... Ron and Sherrie Lou Noel pledged $1 million to Eastern Kentucky for academics and athletics...
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
Nebraska unveiled an alternate uniform for its Sept. 24 game at Northwestern... Virginia announced new uniform combinations for this season... Western Michigan announced a brand refresh... Concordia St. Paul (Minn.) has unveiled a revamped visual identity... Kentucky Wesleyan launched its new visual identity... Ball State unveiled a red helmet for the upcoming season... Tennessee will wear a helmet decal this season to honor the late Pat Summitt
... Winona State (Minn.)
unveiled an alternate athletics logo...
Community Service
Colorado and Colorado State students are teaming up with Special Olympics Colorado athletes for a unified flag football game Aug. 29... Fifteen-year-old Elijah Oltmanns, who has been battling lymphoma, will be a part of the Virginia Tech football team as he continues his treatments... The Wingate (N.C.) football program hosted its 13th annual Special Olympics Football Field Day...
More News of Interest
The Penn State vs. Pittsburgh four-game series will be titled the Keystone Classic presented by Peoples Natural Gas... U.S. Ryder Cup Captain Davis Love III will present the Ryder Cup Trophy Sept. 3 during the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game between Georgia and North Carolina at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta... Colorado launched an exhaustive study of student-athletes' health...
Obituaries
Sara Waters
, wife of Football Bowl Association Executive Director and 2011 NFF Legacy Award winner Wright Waters,
passed away
Aug. 26. She was 69...
Former Iowa tight end
Jim Gibbons passed away Aug. 20. He was 79...
Former Penn football captain
Harry Warren passed away Aug. 20. He was 85... Georgetown (Ky.) football player Colson Machlitt died Aug. 21. He was 18... Former Penn State offensive lineman Bill Lenkaitis passed away Aug. 27. He was 70... Hubbard Alexander, a former Tennessee State football player and assistant coach at Tennessee State, Vanderbilt and Miami (Fla.), passed away Aug. 28. He was 77... Former Air Force quarterback Dee Dowis died Aug. 29. He was 48... Former Boston University football player Fred Barry passed away. He was 68... Longtime NFF Touchdown Club of Houston Chapter official photographer and U.S. Army veteran Max Cottrell passed away Aug. 19. He was 74...
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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 Member Southern California, Founder Member Marshall and Executive Members Bowling Green, Houston Baptist and Montana State.
Click here
to see all of the 2016 NFF Institutional Academic Members.
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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.
Tennessee's Donald Denbo (1970) joined this week. 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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