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UPI-62
(FOOTBALL)
WASHINGT ON OCTBALL COMMISSIONER PETE ROZELLE SAID TODAY HE WILL
RECOMMEND CANCELLATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE MERGER UNLESS
CONGRESS EXEMPTS IT FROM ANTITRUST PROSECUTION.
ROZELLE MADE THE STATEMENT IN TESTIMONY PREPARED FOR THE HOUSE
JUDICIARY ANTITRUST SUBCOMMITTEE, WHICH BEGAN HEARINGS ON THE
SENATE-APPROVED BILL BUT WAS CUT OFF BY AN EARLY MEETING OF THE HOUSE.
ALTHOUGH THE COMMISSIONER'S APPEARANCE WAS PUT OFF UNTIL TUESDAY,
HIS' TESTIMONY WAS DISTRIBUTED.
IN IT, ROZELLE MADE CLEAR WHAT HE HAD HINTED AT STRONGLY IN THE
PAST: HE OPPOSED THE MERGER OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE AND THE
AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE UNLESS THERE IS PRIOR PROTECTION FROM
COSTLY ANTITRUSI SUITS.
"ON THE BASIS OF OUR PRESENT EVALUATION OF THE LIABILITIES THAT
MIGHT BE ACCUMULATED THROUGH GOVERNMENTAL AND/OR PRIVATE LITIGATION,
I FEEL I MUST SAY VERY CANDIDLY AT THIS TIME THAT IF LEGISLATION IS
NOT PASSED BY THE CONGRESS IT WILL BE MY STRONG, ALTHOUGH RELUCTANT,
RECOMMENDATION TO THE PRESIDENTS OF THE 24 CLUBS COMPRISING THE
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE AND THE AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE THAT
THEY SHOULD NOT PROCEED WITH THE PLAN," ROZELLE SAID.
ROZELLE SAID THERE IS A REAL DANGER OF ANTITRUST LITIGATION IF
THE MERGER PROCEEDED WITHOUT IMMUNITY.
"THE ANTITRUST DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS AUTHORIZED
US TO STATE THAT THEY HAVE SERIOUS CONCERN ABOUT THE PLAN, ALTHOUGH
THEY HAVE NOT YET DECIDED WHETHER TO BRING SUIT," ROZELLE SAID.
ROZELLE SAID THE LEGISLATION, WHICH WAS RUSHED THROUGH THE SENATE,
DID NO MORE THAN EXEMPT THE MERGER FROM LEGAL ACTION, PLUS GUARANTEE
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FROM FRIDAY NIGHT COMPETITION FROM PROFEESSIONAL
FOOTBALL TELEVISION.
AS FOR THE MERGER ITSELF, HE SAID IT DID NOT ENTAIL SUCH USUAL
BUSINESS ARRANGEMENTS AS CHANGES OF OWNERSHIP OR EXCHANGES OF STOCK
AND ASSETS THAT MIGHT LESSEN COMPETITION.
BUT HE SAID WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF "ENDLESS LITIGATION" AND
TREBLE DAMAGE SUITS THAT MIGHT INVOLVE:SUMS "LARGER THAN THE TOTAL
VALUE AND NET ASSETS OF ALL THE EXISTING FRANCHISES, " HE COULD SEE
NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO ABANDON THE PLAN WITHOUT THE LEGISLATION.
ROZELLE SAID FOOTBALL FANS AS WELL AS THE OWNERS AND PLAYERS,
WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE MERGER's AND WARNED THAT THE INTENSE PRICE
COMPETITION FOR PLAYERS THAT HAS GED BETWEEN THE NFL AND AFL
MIGHT DESTROY THE PROFESSIONAL GAME.
10/6 GE115SA
UPI
ADD 1 FOOTBALL, WASHINGTON (UPI+52)
ROZELLE SAID THE SUBCOMMITTEE HAD BEEN FURNISHED WITH CONFIDENTIAL
DETAILS ABOUT PLAYER PAY, AND SUMMED UP THE INFORMATION BY SAYING
"WHERE: BONUS COMMITMENTS AND DEFERRED. PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS HAVE
EXCEEDED THE ENTIRE GROSS GAME RECEIPTS OF A MEMBER CLUB. SURVIVAL IN
FOOTBALL IS SHORTLY GOING TO DEPEND SOLELY ON EACH LEAGUE'S ABILITY
TO CARRY ITS OWN FAILING FRANCHISES.
MILT WOODWARD, PRESIDENT OF THE AFL, WHOSE STATEMENT ALSO WAS
SUBMITTED BUT NOT READ AT THE OPENING HEARING, WAS MORE EXPLICIT
ABOUT THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF THE MERGER FALLING THROUGH.
"I AM NOT GOING TO MAKE ANY PUBLIC STATEMENTS ABOUT WHAT THE FUTURE
HOLDS FOR THE AMERICAN LEAGUE IF THIS BILL IS NOT ENACTED, BUT I
CAN SAY I WOULD BE VITALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE FINANCIAL STABILITY OF
MANY OF THE AFL TEAMS, JOODWARD TESTIMNY SAID.
UPI-70
ADD 2 FOOTBALL, WASHINGTON
CHAIRMAN EMANUEL CELLER. D-NoYe, OF THE ANTITRUST SUBCOMMITTEE
AND THE PARENT JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. GAVE NOTICE TN ADVANCE THAT HE
WAS NOT TOO IMPRESSED BY PREDICTIONS OF DISASTER FOR FOOTBALL WITHOUT
ANTITRUST IMMUNITY.
IN-1957, AFTER A COURT DECISION IN WHICH FOOTBALL WAS FOUND TO
BE SUBJECT TO THE ANTITRUST LAW, CELLER SAID REPRESENTATIVES SAID
THE SITUATION THREATENED THE EXISTENCE OF THE PROFESSIONAL GAME.
"SINCE THAT TIME HOWEVER, PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL, EVEN THOUGH
SUBJECT TO THE ANTITRUST LAWS, HAS MADE PRODIGIOUS STRIDES IN ITS
DEVELOPMENT, CELLER SAID. "FOOTBALL IS NOW ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
SPECTATOR SPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES."
HE SAID SUCH EXEMPTIONS AS FOOTBALL SEEKS ARE "GIVEN ONLY WITH.
THE GREATEST RELUCTANCE AND ONLY UPON A. SHOWING OF AN OVERRIDING
NEED THEREFORE, AND THAT IT WOULD BE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST."
OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE, HOWEVER, APPEARED EAGER TO
SUPPORT THE BILL.
REPS. PETER RODINO, D-NoJ., BYRON REGERS. D-COLO., WILLIAM CRAMER,
R-FLA=, AND CLARK MACGREGOR, R-MINNes ALL SPOKE FOR THE MEASURE.
BESIDES CELLER, THE ONLY VOICE THAT APPEARED RELUCTANT WAS THAT OF
REP. ROBERT KASTENMEIER, D-WIS,, WHOSE STATE NOW IS CHALLENGING THE
ANTITRUST EXEMPTION OF PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL.
10/6--E121 9PED
Special Awards Dinner
of
The National Football Foundation
and Hall of Fame
Union Club
69th and Park Avenue
New York City
Tuesday, April 26, 1966
National Football Foundation
and The Hall of Fame
Just as the immortal coach and great teacher of youth, the late
Amos Alonzo Stagg, was presented the National Football Founda-
tion's highest honor, the Gold Medal, in a special ceremony, so
Paul Savidge, 220-pound lion-
hearted captain of the 1965
will four gridiron greats be honored here this evening: C. Everett
Princeton Tigers, was one of
Bacon, 76, Wesleyan University; John Houghton Hubbard, 80,
college football's finest two-way
Amherst; Bishop Frank Juhan, 77, University of the South, and
performers last fall, excelling
offensively and defensively. In
63
the late John McGovern, Minnesota. Pioneers of college football,
the final game with Dartmouth
they contributed to the greatness of the game shortly after the turn
he suffered a broken neck and
of the century. Successful in life, they dramatize the relationship
was hospitalized for over four
of football to the needs of the country. They inspire the young
months. During this time, he
continued to keep up with his
men who play the game today to make the most of educational
studies and passed his mid-term
opportunities and to follow in their footsteps as tomorrow's leaders
examinations with flying colors.
of the nation. College football players have learned in the class-
He receives the National Foot-
room about man's past. On the field, they learn about themselves;
ball Foundation's National
Chapter Scholar-Athlete Award
their unlimited resources as tested against other men. "When the
tonight for his courageous
moment of arrival is reached, Spirit dominates technique." College
comeback.
football breeds such men!
Program
Menu
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Roger Blough
Chairman, MacArthur Advisory Committee
HOT RICE AND CHEESE BOULETTES
DEVILED EGGS
REPORT
STUFFED HEARTS OF CELERY
Chester J. LaRoche,
SARDINE AND ANCHOVIE CANAPES
President, N.F.F.
JUMBO SHRIMP A LA RUSSE
PRESENTATION OF NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION CHAPTER
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE AWARD TO
Paul Savidge,
GREEN TURTLE AMONTILLADO
Captain, Princeton, 1965
CELERY-OLIVES-RADISHES
By
Richard Kazmaier,
Chairman of N.F.F. Chapters
FILET OF SOLE AMANDINE
ADDRESS BY
Allison Danzig, New York Times
"THE MEN WHO MADE THE GAME"
ROAST RACK OF SPRING LAMB
FRENCH PEAS
INDUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS OF THE
POMME AU GRATIN
NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AND HALL OF FAME
By
Merle Gulick, Member, National Football Hall of Fame
PERRIER JOUET 1952
FORUM
Chairman: Roger Blough
Subject: College Football; Campus Activities; American Business.
CHERRIES JUBILEE
The moral and spiritual dimensions of college football;
PETITS FOURS
the possibilities for influence in the quality
and integrity of our nation's leadership.
1. William Orwig, Athletic Director, University of Indiana
2. Daniel E. Jessee, Trinity University, President of the
DEMI TASSE
American Football Coaches Association
3. Dr. Edward McCrady, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South
4. Dr. John C. Flanagan, President of the American Institute of Research
A MESSAGE FROM ALONZO STAGG
Cigarettes-American Tobacco
C. EVERETT BACON
FRANK A. JUHAN
JOHN HOUGHTON HUBBARD
JOHN FRANCIS McGOVERN
Wesleyan University
University of the South, Sewanee University
Amherst College
University of Minnesota
1909, 1910, 1912
1908-1909-1910
1903, 1904, 1905, 1906
1908-1909-1910
An outstanding success in the business
He was the first Southerner to receive seri-
He is Amherst's only All-America football
He was the first University of Minnesota
world in the investment banking field in
ous All-America consideration, although a
player in the college's over 80 years of com-
football player to win All-America acclaim.
New York, he was regarded along with Hall
young Nashville, Tennessee writer named
petition. He was saluted by Walter Camp
He was regarded as a great field goal kicker,
of Famer Pat Pazzetti as one of the finest
Grantland Rice chose him All-Southern for
when few small college players were so rec-
passer, runner and excellent field general
quarterbacks to ever play for Wesleyan Uni-
his herculean defensive efforts in leading
ognized. He could play any position in the
and during his three years of varsity com-
versity. He was a pioneer in the art of for-
the University of the South to upset vic-
backfield, but it is at a halfback where he
petition, Minnesota only lost one game. He
ward passing and was an expert punter and
tories over Georgia Tech, LSU, and Auburn.
excelled. He was one of the truly great
was an Iron Man performer, playing every
defender. Walter Camp picked him on his
The only loss that season was to Princeton.
punters in the country and never missed an
minute of every game but one over this
third team All-American eleven; a real
A boyhood classmate of General Douglas
extra point in three years of varsity compe-
three-year period.
tribute inasmuch as he played for a small
MacArthur at West Texas Military Acad-
tition. He was an iron man football player
McGovern died two years ago at the age
college. He won All-East honors and the
emy at Sewanee, he was a standout defender
in every sense of the word, playing every
of 78. Born in Arlington, Minnesota. As a
team never had a losing season during the
on a team which usually used only 12 mem-
minute of every game over a four-year pe-
college student, he also was on the athletic
period he played.
bers of its 14-man squad. He was tagged
riod with the exception of two.
board of control, a member of Alpha Tau
Now 76, he began his business career as
football's "first authentic linebacker" by
Now 80, he was born in Putney, Vermont;
Omega and Phi Delta Phi.
a salesman. He entered the banking field
Grantland Rice, as he played a yard behind
he was football captain two years. His long-
He earned his Doctor of Law Degree and
in 1916 with Spencer Trask and Company,
the line of scrimmage on the orders of his
est scoring run was 105 yards against Massa-
was Vice President of the Green Giant Com-
where he is a senior partner today.
coach and was given the opportunity to de-
chusetts Agricultural College, a school he
pany at the time of his retirement. He also
He also played varsity baseball and var-
ploy himself where ever he thought the as-
later coached for one season, and in 1906
was the President of the National Canners
sity tennis for four years while in college.
sault might come. The result was Bishop
punted 70 yards against Yale. He was also a
Association. He served as a Minneapolis
After sitting out his junior year in football
Juhan made more tackles and occasionally
standout in track, setting records in the
sports editor before concentrating on his
because of an athletic heart, he bounced
intercepted a forward pass, a novel weapon
high hurdles and sparkling also in the 220-
law career in Washington.
back as team captain of the 1912 team,
just coming into vogue. Although not
yard dash and the low hurdles. He was a
While still in college, he was given the
which won seven of nine games-winning
branded "Monster Man," the term currently
member of the heavy gym team for two
"Outstanding Achievement Award" and
all-star recognition in the process.
employed when identifying modern roving
years.
later was honored as Minnesota's "Most
He served his country in World War I,
linebackers, Juhan terrified the opposition.
He was immediately named head coach at
Outstanding Alumnus."
initially as first sergeant and then won his
He was chaplain at the Sewanee Military
Amherst following his graduation, and held
As a gifted broken field runner, he had
commission with the 48th Field Artillery-
Academy for three years before being called
this assignment for three years, when he
few equals, and was unusually effective as
16th Division. At war's end, he was offered
to a rectory in South Carolina. He was
joined the Montague City Rod Company,
an open field tackler, particularly haunting
a commission of Major in the reserve.
elected Bishop of Florida eight years later.
which manufactured bamboo fishing rods
Michigan's great Willie Heston in those
He is now Trustee Emeritus of his alma
He was chancellor of Sewanee for six years
and worked there from 1908 to 1926. He
famous Wolverine-Golden Gopher battles.
mater after serving as a trustee for 26 years.
and after retirement-assumed the non-pay-
then became affiliated with Union Hard-
Minnesota shared the conference champion-
He was President of the Board of Directors
ing job as Director of Development until
ware Company in Torrington, Conn. from
ship in 1910 and won it in 1911. He won
of the Montclair, New Jersey YMCA; a
1965. During this time he oversaw Sewanee's
1926 to 1954.
legendary football status despite his height
member of the New York State Chamber
Ten Million Dollar Campaign. The unbeat-
He was chairman of the local United War
- five feet four and a half inches - and
of Commerce, ex-governor of the Associa-
en Sewanee team of 1964 elected the Bishop
Work campaign for Liberty Loan and War
weighed 155 pounds.
tion of Stock Exchange Firms, and a former
honorary captain and that is the only trophy
Savings Stamps during World War I and
His son, Duff, is here tonight to accept
vestryman of St. Luke's Church and the
that adorns his desk.
was chairman of the Red Cross from 1942-
the Award.
Church of St. Sacrament.
At 77 as Director of Development, he was
1949. He became Director of the local
asked what he would like to do most. He
YMCA and a trustee of the Congregational
replied: "Part my hair in the middle and
Church. He later entered politics and was
play Vandy."
an assessor and Constable.
The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
Special Awards Dinner Chairman
MERLE A. GULICK
OFFICERS
Chester J. LaRoche, president
Wallace S. Girling, vice president
Earl H. Blaik, vice president
Robert A. Hall, secretary
Vincent Draddy, vice president
Joseph D. Tooker, Jr., treasurer
Thomas E. Hamilton, vice president
Harvey Harman, executive director
Clinton E. Frank, vice president
James L. McDowell, director of public relations
Board of Directors
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Alvin P. Adams
Merle A. Gulick
Donold B. Lourie
Earl H. Blaik
Robert A. Hall
Charles M. Mackall
Asa Bushnell
Thomas J. Hamilton
D. O. McLaughry
Barton A. Cummings
Robert C. Harron
Jack H. Mohr
Allison Danzig
Ralph Furey
George M. O'Neil
Aldo Donelli
Leonard D. Henry
C. Robert Paul
Vincent Draddy
Richard W. Kazmaier
Carl P. Ray
Braven Dyer
Robert E. Kintner
Harry J. Rockafeller
Clinton Frank
Alex S. Kroll
John J. F. Ruddy
Ernest Godfrey
Chester J. LaRoche
Fred Russell
Edgar W. Garbisch
Gilbert Lea
Dr. Marvin A. Stevens
William H. Geyer, Jr.
George S. Leisure
Joseph D. Tooker, Jr.
Frederic E. Giersch
Lou Little
Charles W. Tucker, Jr.
Wallace Girling
AWARDS COMMITTEE
Vincent Draddy, chairman
Allison Danzig
Earl H. Blaik
Robert A. Hall
Asa S. Bushnell
Richard W. Kazmaier
Lou Little
THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AND
HALL OF FAME HONORS COURT
Fred Russell, chairman
Wilbur Evans
Lou Little
George Cole
Tuss McLaughry
Jesse Hill
Allison Danzig
Len Casanova
Ray Eliot
William Murray
Don Faurot
Glen Jacoby
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The 1966 Awards Banquet
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1
DECEMBER, 1966-January, 1967
FOOTBALLETTER
The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
Ninth Hall of Fame Dinner Outstanding
1966 HALL OF FAME HONOREES - Col. Earl (Red) Blaik and Captain Bill Carpenter were re-united again at the Ninth Annual
Football Hall of Fame Awards banquet, nine years after Carpenter had played for Blaik's last Army team. They are shown being
presented their Gold Medal and Distinguished American Awards by Football Foundation president Chester J. LaRoche (r) and
Awards Chairman Vincent DePaul Draddy (1). (All photos by George Moldovan except those designated by Bill Mark)
By JIMMIE McDowell
who is now chairman of the executive committee of
The Ninth Annual Awards Banquet of the National
AVCO Corp., and the presentation of the Football Foun-
Football Foundation and Hall of Fame has been generally
dation's Distinguished American Award to one of Blaik's
acclaimed as "the best ever."
prize proteges, Captain William S. Carpenter, Army's
The Banquet was highlighted by the presentation of
fabled Lonely End, who recently distinguished himself
the Gold Medal Award to Col. Earl Henry (Red) Blaik,
in battle in Viet Nam. Col. Blaik and Captain Carpenter
legendary Army and Dartmouth Hall of Fame Coach,
(Continued on page 3)
Blough, Galbreath Named Co-chairmen page 20
2
FOOTBALLETTER
DECEMBER, 1966-JANUARY, 1967
DECEMBER, 1966-January, 1967
FOOTBALLETTER
3
Notre Dame Wins Coin Toss
ECCIPANCY
In Added Banquet Highlight
(Continued from page 1)
dramatize the purposes of the Foundation and the relation
that exists between coach and player in America today,
bringing into focus, at a time of the long hair, beatnik
revolt on the campus, the conviction that the disciplines
of football make it "the biggest and best classroom in the
nation for teaching leadership."
Chester J. LaRoche, president of the National Foot-
ball Foundation and Hall of Fame, made the Gold Medal
BIG JIM LISTENS IN - Fabled Big Jim Farley and Roger
Award presentation to Col. Blaik, while awards and ban-
Blough listen to Cardinal Spellman express his pleasure in
quet chairman Vincent dePaul Draddy gave Captain Car-
attending another Football Hall of Fame banquet. He again
penter the Distinguished American Award at the black
gave the Invocation. When he discovered that there was a con-
flict of events, he re-scheduled the other program so that he
tie Waldorf-Astoria $75-a-plate dinner attended by over
could again be a part of the biggest college football night in
1,400 in New York December 6.
America. (Photo by Bill Mark).
Duffy's Future Plans
Football
Roger M. Blough, chairman of the
National Football
of
signe
General MacArthur Business Advisory Com-
tional Football
nal Football
mittee, presented the MacArthur Bowl to
Football
Football
Mall
co-champions Notre Dame and Michigan
grame
Football
wall
of
State. In a flip of the coin ceremony by
Fame
Chairman Draddy, Notre Dame Coach Ara
Parseghian and his captain Jim Lynch
called correctly and the Fighting Irish will
Charles
maintain possession of the famous trophy
for the first six months. Forever optimistic,
even though losing the coin toss, Michigan
State's Duffy Daugherty, flanked by co-cap-
tains George Webster and Clinton Jones,
said "That's O.K. We will keep the Mac-
Arthur Bowl the next 18 months," leaving
no doubt to the Spartans' potential for 1967.
CAMERER QUARTERBACKING - Dave Camerer (c), former
NEW HALL OF FAMERS - Posing happily with Hall of Fame plaques are, from left, Rip Miller, Notre Dame, Pappy Waldorf,
In his annual President's report, Chet LaRoche cli-
Dartmouth grid great, longtime newspaperman and now with
Northwestern and California, Charley Conerly, Ole Miss, Aaron Rosenberg, Southern California, Dr. Mal Stevens, who coached the
maxed his talk with the announcement that Roger Blough
CBS, spins a tale of yesteryear during the Hall of Fame and
late Albie Booth and received the Yale immortal's award, Princeton's Dick Kazmaier, and Indiana's Pete Pihos. Missing from the
and John Galbreath, key members of the MacArthur Ad-
Scholar-Athlete press-radio-television conference at the 21 Club.
photo are Jim Crowley, Notre Dame, Chuck Carney, Illinois, and Norm Van Brocklin, Oregon.
He has a good audience. Standing are Hall of Famer Lou Little
visory Committee, had accepted the co-chairmanship of
and Nashville Sports Editor Fred Russell, the Honors Court
the Football Hall of Fame Building Fund drive. This news
chairman. Sitting are Awards Chairman Vince Draddy and
was greeted by applause and cheers, bringing a happy
New York World-Journal-Tribune sports columnist Red Smith.
response from Rutgers University President Dr. Mason
Gross and Princeton's chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Board of Trustees, Jámes M. Oates. Mr.
Steven Stanley Juk of the University of South Carolina,
Oates assured the crowd that Princeton was 100 per cent
James Robert Lynch of Notre Dame, Charles Peters of
behind the Football Hall of Fame program and Dr. Gross
Princeton, William D. Powell of the University of Mis-
replied that Rutgers welcomed Princeton aboard. Target
souri, John Andrews Richards, Texas Christian Univer-
date for completion is 1969, 100th anniversary of the
sity, and Michael Dennis Ryan of the University of
first college game played in America between the two uni-
Washington.
versities.
Three Med Students
Ten outstanding men were inducted into the Foot-
All will receive $500 graduate fellow-
CROWLEY CONTAINED - Sleepy Jim Crowley (r), whose
ARA SURROUNDED - Three Hall of Famers, Merle Gulick
ball Hall of Fame by Admiral Tom Hamilton, executive
ships upon enrollment at the graduate
response for the Hall of Fame inductees was one of the high-
(l), Tuss McLaughry, second from left, and Lou Little, second
lights of the evening, couldn't get a word in edge-wise during
director of the A.A.W.U. and a Hall of Famer in his own
school of their choice from funds provided
from right, congratulate Notre Dame's Ara Parseghian for
the reception earlier in the evening as old Notre Dame team-
right. They included: the late Albie Booth of Yale, Char-
by Red Blaik's syndicated football series. In
another fine season. Dartmouth Coach Bob Blackman is shown
mate Rip Miller (l) chatted with Hall of Famer Don Whitmire
ley Conerly of Mississippi, Jim Crowley of Notre Dame,
addition, Peters, Richards and Juk qualified
at right. (Photo by Bill Mark).
(c), who was a standout at both Alabama and Navy.
Charles Carney of Illinois, Richard Kazmaier of Princeton,
for $1,250 grant from Medical Economics
Norm Van Brocklin of Oregon, Edgar (Rip) Miller of
Magazine Publisher William Chapman since
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1
OFFICERS
Notre Dame, Peter Pihos of Indiana, Aaron Rosenberg of
they will attend Medical School.
DECEMBER, 1966-January, 1967
NEW YORK OFFICE
Chester J. LaRoche, President
Southern California and Coach Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf,
A fine delegation of old Hall of Famers was on
The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
Thomas J. Hamilton, Vice President
Rooms 1 and 2
a Syracuse grad, who built league champions in the Mis-
hand for this dinner. They were introduced by Lt. Col.
Edgar W. Garbisch, Vice President
FOOTBALLETTER
South Mezzanine
Earl H. Blaik, Vice President
souri Valley, Big Ten and Pacific Coast conferences.
Felix (Doc) Blanchard, Army's great back of the mid-
Biltmore Hotel
Vincent Draddy, Vice President
Crowley delivered the response for the Hall of
Forties.
Published by
East 43rd and Madison
Clinton E. Frank, Vice President
Famers and shared the limelight with Daugherty in the
His eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman gave the
The National Football Foundation and
Wallace Girling, Vice President
rib-tickling department.
Invocation while Rev. Dr. Arthur L. Kinsolving, Rector
Telephone: Area code 212-661-0534
Joseph D. Tooker, Jr., Treasurer
Hall of Fame
The 1966 National Football Foundation Scholar-Ath-
of St. James Church in New York gave the Benediction.
Robert A. Hall, Secretary
New Brunswick, N. J.
Harvey Harman, Executive Director
letes were introduced by Football Foundation secretary
John Charles Daly served as master of ceremonies
JIMMIE McDowell, Editor
Jimmie McDowell, Director of Public
Robert Hall. They included Thomas Hodge Allen of Bow-
for the dinner and Broadway star John Raitt sang the
Telephone: CHarter 7-1766
-
Relations
doin, Robert Glenn Etter of the University of Georgia,
National Anthem.
4
FOOTBALLETTER
DECEMBER, 1966-JANUARY, 1967
DECEMBER, 1966-JANUARY, 1967
FOOTBALLETTER
5
Hall of Fame Dinner Highlights
HARMONIZING? - Hall of Fame inductees Aaron Rosenberg
A JOB WELL DONE - Broadway singing star John Raitt (1),
(c) and Charley Conerly seem to be getting ready to sing a sweet
song, while Chuck Carney watches with interest at the reception
PRINCETONIAN ON PROGRAM -
who sang the National Anthem, and famed John Charles Daly,
who served as master of ceremonies, were commended for their
prior to the Ninth Annual Awards Dinner in New York.
James F. Oates, Jr., Chairman of the
Board and Executive Officer of the Equit-
contributions to the Ninth Annual Hall of Fame dinner by
able Life Assurance Society of the United
Jack Mohr of the Foundation's executive committee. (Photo by
States, and chairman of the Executive
Bill Mark).
Committee of the Princeton University
Board of Trustees, joined hands with
Rutgers President Dr. Mason Gross in
DETERMINED DUFFY - Michigan State's Duffy Daugherty, after losing the toss
boosting the National Football Hall of
of the coin to Notre Dame's Ara Parseghian which gives the Fighting Irish immediate
Fame program. A graduate of Exeter
possession of the MacArthur Bowl for six months, told Ara that "It's O.K. You keep
Academy, Mr. Oates graduated at Prince-
it for six months and we'll keep it for the next 18 months." He's already looking
ton in 1921. He later received an ad-
forward to next year's rematch. Looking on are Roger Blough, Chairman of the
vance degree at Northwestern.
General MacArthur Advisory Committee, and Awards Chairman Vincent Draddy.
HALL OF FAME HUDDLE - Walter Hoving (1) of Tiffany's,
designer of the MacArthur Bowl, and Notre Dame's Vice-Presi-
dent, Father Edwin Joyce (r) chat with the Hall of Fame's
Executive Director Harvey Harman during the Ninth Annual
Awards Banquet at the Waldorf.
HAPPY PRESIDENT - Rutgers University President Dr.
Mason Gross (l) was delighted to hear that Roger Blough and
National Football
John Galbreath had accepted the co-chairmanship of the
shown with Hall of Famer Col. Edgar Garbisch, a vice-president
Will
of
National Football Hall of Fame Building Campaign. He is
EXCEPTIONAL BANQUET - The Ninth Annual Football
Hall of Fame banquet set a new record by ending at 10:20 p.m.
of the National Football Foundation.
Cardinal Spellman checks the clock. Equally delighted over the
smoothness and quality of the banquet are Chet LaRoche (1),
awards chairman Vince Draddy, and last year's Gold Medal
Norman
winner Juan Trippe (r).
CHAIRMAN COMMENDED - Nashville Sports Editor Fred
Russell, chairman of the Football Hall of Fame Honors Court,
MOMENT TO REMEMBER - Admiral Tom Hamilton, who
HOW ABOUT THAT? - Mel Allen (c), just back from Viet
is congratulated by the Foundation's Jimmie McDowell (r) for
DIXIE CONTINGENT - Hall of Famer Bruiser Kinard (r)
was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame a year ago, as a
Nam, shakes hands with Dave Camerer of CBS at the con-
an excellent group of 1966 Hall of Fame electees. At Russell's
was on hand to see another Ole Miss grid great be inducted.
vice-president of the Football Foundation inducted the 1966
clusion of the Ninth Annual Football Hall of Fame dinner
right is old friend, Col. "Dopey" Stephens, who picked up his
Also congratulating Charley Conerly were Tennessee Athletic
members. He is shown with Oregon's fabled "Dutchman," Norm
while Army's fabled one-two punch, Mr. Inside Felix (Doc)
nickname many years ago from head coach Henry (Red)
Director Bob Woodruff (l) and John Holley, Ole Miss' business
Van Brocklin, who flew in from Minnesota, where he coaches
Blanchard, second from left, and Mr. Outside, Glenn Davis, and
Sanders. "Dopey's" nifty 40-yard gain was not the play Sanders
manager of athletics, second from right.
wanted called at the time.
the Vikings, to accept the award.
Coach Ben Martin (r) of the Air Force Academy lend an ear.
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MACARTHUR BOWL ACCEPTED - Ara Parseghian of Notre Dame proudly accepts co-ownership of the National Football
Foundation's MacArthur Bowl for 1966, while Michigan State's Duffy Daugherty and Spartan co-captains Clint Jones (l) and George
Webster applaud. Daugherty followed Parseghian and commended the Football Foundation's Awards Committee for its fairness
and good judgment in naming co-winners after the two college football titans had battled to a 10-10 tie. Roger Blough, chairman of
the MacArthur Advisory Committee, is shown behind Parseghian. Irish captain Jim Lynch is at the far right. Chet LaRoche and
Red Blaik are seated in front of Jones and Webster. (Photo courtesy of The New York Times).
THE 1966 SCHOLAR-ATHLETES - Holding beautiful Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete silver trophies, eight of the nation's out-
standing seniors are shown with Awards Chairman Vincent Drad dy. They are, from left, William Powell, Missouri, Bobby Etter,
Georgia, Charles Peters, Princeton, Jim Lynch, Notre Dame, S tan Juk, South Carolina, Mike Ryan, Washington, John Richards,
TCU, and Tom Allen, Bowdoin.
Duffy Daugherty
side. We just say left half at one, fullback left or fullback
right. I think if I work with you a couple of weeks, Jim,
(Continued from page 6)
Steve will be all right.
Now in a little while, Vince Draddy is going to flip
dinal Spellman and as a former Presbyterian, hello to
I don't want to take any more of your time but Mr.
Roger M. Blough
a coin and then we will be able to tell you which of
Ara Parseghian. Father Joyce, my very warm and close
Blough, I hope you'll give all my regards to everybody
these two schools will have the MacArthur Bowl for
friend from Notre Dame and my two great Spartans,
at Bethlehem Steel. When I was a boy back in Barnsville,
Presents the MacArthur Bowl
the first six months, and which for the second six months.
without whom we wouldn't be here tonight, Clinton
Pennsylvania, I caddied for Charles Schwab one time.
JOHN CHARLES DALY: We Irish have a way of com-
And next year we hope to award the Bowl again, if it
Jones and George Webster and the captain of our more
That's the closest I've ever come to a steel magnate. I
ing forward, I do say. I'm also married, but not the most
returns.
than worthy opponent, Jim Lynch. It's a great honor to
was in the same foursome, and my brother was caddy
popular man on the team. Roger M. Blough, one of the
At this point I'd like to call on Ara Parseghian to
be selected along with certainly as fine a football team
with another fellow, and Charley Schwab had a habit of
ten great Americans to receive the National Football
say a word.
as we've ever played against, Notre Dame. It's just a
raising his head, as a lot of us golfers do, on his back-
Foundation's Gold Medal Award. A fine football player
wonderful team and I want to compliment the Com-
swing, and he said "any of you caddies see me raising
at Susquehanna, he, of course, is also known as the Chair-
mittee of the Football Hall of Fame for selecting co-
my head again, tell me to keep my head down." So my
man of the Board of U.S. Steel, as well as the Chairman
Ara Parseghian
champions.
brother was 18 months older than I and a little smarter,
of the Football Foundation General MacArthur Advisory
of Notre Dame
I don't think that anything could be
a lot smarter, but as Schwab, about the third hole, started
Committee. Mr. Blough will present the MacArthur Bowl.
more apropos. I think it showed a great
his back swing, and my brother said, "keep your damn
Mr. Blough.
ARA PARSEGHIAN: Thank you. Thank you. One of the
discerning judgment and a wonderful intel-
head down." And he gave us all a five dollar tip. And I
ROGER M. BLOUGH: I'd like to invite Duffy Daugher-
real nice things that happened to Notre Dame in 1964
lect and a great, and a great sense of fair-
hope, I hope you tip all your caddies the same way.
ty, and his co-captains to step up here, please. And Ara
was the winning of this award. I think if your memory
ness. And, tonight when I came into the
I want to thank the Hall of Fame Committee serious-
Parseghian and his captain.
will bring it back to your attention, we lost the last game,
reception earlier, a fellow came up and said,
ly. I'd like to introduce the academician who came with
Gentlemen, for the world championship in this cor-
in the last one minute and thirty three seconds and the
"I'm from the AP," I said, "AP, what's that?"
me from Michigan State. He's head of the marketing de-
ner Duffy Daugherty, fighting at one hundred and ninety
Hall of Fame Committee selected Notre Dame as the
I said. He said, "Associated Press." I said,
partment, who accompanied me, Dr. Tom Stoudt. Will
five.
recipient of the MacArthur Award and it was a great
"Well, I'm glad to find out what that AP
you stand up Tom? And I want to congratulate Ara.
In this corner, Ara Parseghian, fighting at one hun-
thing for us, believe me. And to come back in 1966 and
stands for." I said, "I had to come all the
Seriously, I joked a lot about it but no team could be
dred and eighty.
to share this with Michigan State is a real privilege,
way to New York. Back in East Lansing they
more of a worthy national champ than Notre Dame and
Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to introduce
believe me.
thought it stood for Ara Parseghian."
we cherish our relationship with you. Seriously, we kid
Clinton Jones, and George Webster, co-captains of Notre
May I say this, that Duffy and I dis-
Dame.
cussed this earlier in the evening. We plan
Salute from Duffy
about it but Notre Dame, and they're a very worthy na-
tional champ, and they're very deserving of their number
Now I'd like to introduce Jim Lynch of Michigan
to make this an annual affair. Thank you
I want to congratulate all these wonderful young
one rating, and my, our hats are off to them and we're
State. Now you see that these fellows have gotten things
very much.
men who received these Blaik Scholarships for their high
only looking forward to our game with them next year.
so confused tonight you can't tell one from the other.
academic achievement. A couple of them will be playing
Thank you.
It's a great honor to present to these two schools the,
with us in the East-West game, Steve, and I hope you
Toss Of The Coin
the finest award that this Football Hall of Fame Founda-
Duffy Daugherty
are smart enough to understand our plays. And Lynch, we
MR. BLOUGH: Gentlemen, Vincent Draddy is the
tion and Hall of Fame has to award, the MacArthur Bowl.
say you know, that we had a little trouble when Bob
Chairman of the Awards Committee. He's now going to
I must tell you in all candor things are beginning to bother
of Michigan State
Apisa got hurt. You know they accused some players
flip a coin and I'm going to ask Ara to call it. Heads
us. Notre Dame won in 1964. Michigan State won in
MR. BLOUGH: And now gentlemen, another great
of signals from the sideline. I've never been caught
or tails?
1965. And in 1966 they split the award and the Anti-
coach, Duffy Daugherty.
yet, but I used to do the hoola. This is Apisa around
PARSEGHIAN: I'm going to let my captain call it. He
trust Department has telephoned us to find out what's
MR. DAUGHERTY: Thank you. Your Eminence Car-
right end and Apisa up the middle, you know the
makes all the calls.
going on.
(Continued on page 7)
Hawaiian fullback. Now, really I don't signal from the
(Continued on page 8)
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Col. Earl (Red) Blaik
Accepts Gold Medal
President LaRoche, Reverend Clergy, members and
friends of the Football Foundation:
We are all inspired by the presence of
so many legendary football heroes, and as a
former coach, I can think of no greater sat-
isfaction than to participate in the honoring
of one of my former players. Tonight I have
watched with great pride Captain Carpen-
ter, who did the usual both on the playing
field and on the battlefield. Bill, your old
coach is awed by your distinguished record
and I am proud of your example of dedica-
tion to the service of our country.
It would be a gross understatement for me to say
I am anything less than overwhelmed by the honor the
Foundation accords me tonight. I have no illusion that
my credentials qualify me to be included with my prede-
cessors. Perhaps I may stand on the statement, though,
GOES TO BAT FOR FOOTBALL - Gold Medal recipient
Col. Earl (Red) Blaik, chairman of the executive committee
that during thirty two years of coaching and eight years
of AVCO, Corp. and Army and Dartmouth Hall of Fame
of reflection the respect I hold for the American game of
coach, made a memorable speech at the annual Hall of Fame
football has never wavered.
dinner.
One wonders what type of game it is
that challenged such distinguished and not
the years gone by is more forthright, more
forgotten men as Stagg, Yost, Zuppke, Daly,
sensible, and clean. And I suggest we should
Rockne, Warner, Cavanaugh, Dobie, the
not now attempt to over-refine the product.
Jones - Tad and Howard, McGugin,
As a coach I gave our squads ten axioms to go by
Alexander, Neyland, Sutherland, Harlow,
If you don't mind I shall repeat several of them and
Caldwell - all of whom I knew well.
relate each to an intimate coaching experience.
STRATEGY SESSION - Susquehanna's Roger Blough (1) and Army's Award winning Red Blaik and Captain Bill Carpenter
hear former Yale backfield star Chet LaRoche discuss football in general prior to the Hall of Fame banquet at the Waldorf.
The Game
Relaxed Player Excels
It is a game played in some form by over a million
AXIOM A relaxed player performs best and a sense
young Americans, a game uninhibited by social barriers.
of humor and good fun keeps one relaxed. The squads at
DUFFY DAUGHERTY
It is a game that in early season requires exhaustive
Dartmouth and West had a lot of fun with their trainer,
Chester J. LaRoche
(Continued from page 7)
hard work, often to the point of drudgery.
Rollie Bevan, who was a shrewd judge of young players.
It is a game of violent body contact that demands a
Bevan was well attuned to any player who courted the
MR. DRADDY: Heads or tails?
personal discipline seldom found in our modern life.
attention of the stands. In a hard-hitting Penn State game
Makes Gold Medal Presentation
JIM LYNCH: Heads.
It is a game of team action wherein the individual's
a young back went down for the count and was stretched
DRADDY: Heads it is.
reward is that total satisfaction returned by being part
out seemingly seriously injured. A hush came over the
CHET LAROCHE: We would not
it's routine. If you want it, in the
DAUGHERTY: You know you always
of successful team play.
crowd and there was great anxiety in the stands. Now,
pretend to tell you anything you don't
heart where it counts the most, it has
choose in football.
It is a game that is 100% fun when you win, and
much to my annoyance, Bevan showed a callous disregard.
already know about Red Blaik. But
to come from having it yourself."
DRADDY: Yeah, but are they going
exacts 100% resolution when you lose.
of the injured back and it took considerable prodding on
we welcome the privilege to tell you
to take the wind or not?
Touch of Greatness
And if it is the game most like war, it
my part before Rollie went onto the field.
how we feel about him. The pride
PARSEGHIAN: We're going to re-
is also the game most like life, for it teaches
This is the scene - Bevan sauntered out to the in-
we all have for you, Red, as the 1966
You have, Red, with those
ceive.
young men that work, sacrifice, selflessness,
jured player, but instead of giving the back a whiff of
Gold Medal Winner, is born of your
other Gold Medal winners
MR. BLOUGH: The winner's going
competitive drive, perseverance, and respect
ammonia, Rollie jabbed his toe into the player's side and
pride in the game. You have said
what we call a touch of great-
to take it for the first six months.
for authority are the price one pays to
with each jab, said, "Get up, get up, Joe. Get going the
football is the last vistage of real
ness. We don't know how to
Good luck to you.
achieve goals worthwhile.
crowd has spotted your number and know it's you. You're
discipline for our youth. The forces
define it, really, let's say its
DAUGHERTY: And we'll keep it
It is also a contentious game that has detractors in
their hero and they'll give you a rousing cheer when you
that pull away from home and church
some combination of dedica-
for the next eighteen.
academic and other circles who enjoy nothing more than
jog around."
make your statement increasingly im-
tion to something larger than
JOHN DALY: Your Eminence, Your
the violent verbal impact they bring to a discussion of
At that, Joe jumped up and sure enough the relieved
portant. Red, you stand where Presi-
private success. Courage to
Eminence, it was very nice to have
the sport. I shall only contest the detractors by observing
crowd gave him a tremendous cheer. By this time our
dent Eisenhower, General MacArthur,
act against all problems, and
this ex-Presbyterian with us, but I
that, imperfect as it may be, college football during the
players were convulsed with laughter. Their trainer had
President Hoover, President Kennedy,
the boldness to try new ideas,
think it was wonderful of Duffy to
past decades has been deemphasized to the point where
demonstrated he was a "Miracle Healer." Suddenly, it
Justice White, Don Lourie, Roger
a zest for hard work, and
come here to go to confession.
it is now, I believe, quite properly emphasized. Today a
dawned on Joe he had been royally taken. He was in-
Blough and Juan Trippe stood. All
hopefulness about man.
solid education is the paramount objective of most college
furiated he steamed over to Bevan and stammered
have one thing in common.
And we labor, Red, as you
players. For my part, just so long as the college does not
"D-d-damn you Bevan you made an ass of me."
Each was an example of the as-
have, that our youth will
shortchange the player on his education I do not become
Same Difference
pirations of the human spirit in these
honor and seek it. To that
The 10th Annual Hall of
overly concerned about either athletic scholarships or
days somewhat of its neglect.
Coaches, too, supply humor. I enjoy the
recruiting.
I asked Bud Wilkinson for an ex-
end I am proud to present to
story on Francis Schmidt, who was the coach
Fame Banquet will be held
you the Gold Medal of the
In essence, then, based on long observa-
of Ohio State in the '30s Ohio State was
planation. "It starts with one thing,"
National Football Founda-
Dec. 5, 1967 in New York.
tion, it is my conviction the modern ap-
he said, "discipline." You just can't
having great trouble with Michigan and
proach to the game as compared to that in
order it, even at West Point where
tion.
(Continued on page 10)
awinaer may get the Greates Get makes the breaks, toon
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Red Blaik's Gold Medal Speech
Vincent DePaul Draddy
(Continued from page 9)
Distinguished American Award
Schmidt, a wild man on the bench who
JOHN DALY: Vincent DePaul Draddy, vice-president
really needed a keeper on Saturday after-
of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame.
noons, couldn't stand the Michigan parade
Once again I think we can all agree, most heartily, has
through his tackles. After a long gainer
performed admirably in his dual capacities as Awards
Schmidt bellowed, "Look out there, look at
Chairman and Banquet Chairman. You are now free to
Jim, just look at our All America tackle.
There he is - knocked flat on his tail." With
whistle, stamp, etcetera. This is a great job and I think
Vincent deserves credit for it right now.
that, Jim, at the other end of the bench, pro-
VINCENT DRADDY: Gentlemen, nine years ago Presi-
tested, "No, no coach, I'm not out there,
dent Dwight David Eisenhower, who unfortunately could
here's old Jim right here on the bench."
not be here this evening, received the National Football
With that, Schmidt cocked an eye, measured old
Foundation and Hall of Fame's first Gold Medal Award.
Jim and then said, "Now, what's the difference anyway
PROUD OF THEIR DAD - Red Blaik's sons, Bill (l) and
Nine years ago Red Blaik was coaching his last team at
if you were out there you'd be on your tail." There is
Bob, who are now in the oil business in Oklahoma City, were
much good fun in football and certainly a sense of humor.
on hand to see their Father receive the National Football Foun-
West Point. He had designed a new football offense built
dation's highest honor, the Gold Medal, at the Hall of Fame
around a tall, aggressive, intelligent young man and called
Game of Inches
dinner in New York. (Photo by Bill Mark).
an outstanding student as well. Not long ago, this young
A TRIBUTE TO THE FIGHTING MEN - Calling the sev-
AXIOM - Inches make the champion and the cham-
man won all-America acclaim and established pass-receiv-
eral hundred thousand troops fighting in Viet Nam Dis-
pion makes his own luck. In the '46 Army-Navy game,
ing records at the United States Military Academy which
tinguished Americans, Captain Bill Carpenter, is applauded by
the farewell of Blanchard, Davis and Tucker to Army
prepared to get my old number back, but I want you to
still stand. He caught the fancy of the nation's sports
Awards Chairman Vincent Draddy, Master of Ceremonies John
football, the first half looked like an Army route of Navy.
know I prayed all the way here that you would not
columnists and sports editors as well as the American
Charles Daly and Roger Blough, chairman of the MacArthur
give up on me."
Advisory Committee.
For the rest of the game, this cadet team, undefeated in
public.
three years, fought the fiercest rear guard action I have
The Long Walk
He was not only an All-America football player, but
ever seen on a football field. Finally, with the score 21-18,
Now, it is many weeks later. It is the night before
an outstanding student as well. Not long ago this young
the Cadets stopped the Middies twice on the 3 yard line
the Navy game. As was usual, I took the squad for a bed-
man, whom we now honor, was again featured in the
and once on the 4 as the game ended in a scene of
time walk on the golf course which ended with a few
newspapers of America on the front page, when he
pandemonium. Picture this if you will: A half crazed
words about the big game. I recall saying: "Three times
ordered napalm bombs dropped on himself and his em-
crowd had come out of the stands and pressed against the
this season I took the long walk across muddy fields to
battled troops in Vietnam, turning certain death into
sidelines obliterating my last minute view of the playing
congratulate first Benny Oosterbaan, then Ben Schwartz-
miraculous survival against overwhelming odds. He has
field. I was more isolated than the Lonely End as my
walder, and then Jordan Olivar. It has been a trying
won the Silver Star and has been recommended for the
frantic calls to the spotters - Gustafson and Hickman
season and I am a bit weary from those walks. Tomorrow
nation's highest award, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
went unanswered. I later learned that Andy presented a
before 100,000 spectators and fifty million television
The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame has
ghostly belligerent stare toward the playing field while
viewers I want you men to know it would be the longest
created a special award to pay tribute to this outstanding
Herman, bless his soul, buried his head and pleaded,
walk of my coaching career if I cross the field to con-
young man, who more than lived up to General Douglas
"Please, God, don't let them do it don't let them do it."
gratulate the Navy coach."
MacArthur's famous quote: "Upon the fields of friendly
By all odds this was the most starkly anxious moment of
There was silence for a moment then a voice spoke
strife are sown the seeds that on other fields, on other
my coaching career. But the Blanchard-Davis Army team
out with resolution. It was Holleder. "Colonel, you're not
days, will bear the fruits of victory."
prevailed - Inches made them champions and they made
taking that walk tomorrow."
We now present our first Distinguished American
their own luck.
The Cadets won an upset victory over
Award to Captain William S. Carpenter, Jr.
Priceless Leader
the Navy. The Press stated it was Holly's
AXIOM Good fellows are a dime a
vindication. It wasn't - it wasn't at all. It
dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.
was an unforgettable demonstration that an
The 1955 season was most trying for me as
aggressive leader is priceless.
Capt. William S. Carpenter
we had a lean squad and no quarterback. A
Values of Football
Accepts Foundation Award
coach has never known trouble unless he
From these remarks you may have sensed I have
CAPTAIN WILLIAM S. CARPENTER: Thank you very
CARPENTER SALUTED - Viet Nam war hero Captain Wil-
has the senseless temerity to change an All
fixed opinions on the value of the American game of
much. This night is particularly meaningful for me. I
liam Carpenter, Army's All-America Lonely End, is shown
think all of us can look back and think of people that
receiving the National Football Foundation's Distinguished
America End into a "T" quarterback in one
football. I have, and in summary, simply stated, they
American Award from Awards Chairman Vincent Draddy.
season. There was hardly an officer or cadet
are three:
have played a great part in our lives, that have really
at West Point who didn't believe this switch
One: Football should be secondary to the purpose
influenced us. And I feel particularly fortunate tonight
was a colossal error. Even my friends of the
for which the player is in college.
because I think, aside from my parents, the people that
ones that took the beating and the ones that
Press called the move 'Blaik's Folly.'
Two: Championship football and good scholarship are
have exercised the most influence on me have been the
made the success possible. But, also for all
Sunday afternoon after the Michigan defeat the
people that have coached me in various sports.
the troops that are there. You should feel
entirely compatible. We salute our scholar athletes to-
very fortunate, you have hundreds of thou-
Superintendent, my former football teammate, came to
night as splendid examples of this fact.
And tonight there are three of them
my office and inquired as to whether I was aware of
Lastly: The purpose of the game of football is to
here. Felix Blanchard, who beat me around
sands of distinguished Americans over there,
the local sentiment about our quarterback. I told him that
win and to dilute the will to win is to destroy the
the field as a plebe, Coach Tom Cahill who
and they're doing a tremendous job. Thank
purpose of the game.
tried to make me think I was a halfback at
you very much.
the team was aware, the staff was aware, and I was
aware, but far more important they all believed as I
This, then, gentlemen, has been my football creed
Manlius Prep School for a year, and finally
did that our only chance to defeat the Navy was with
and I dare say with the active support and influence of
Colonel Blaik who has, I think, exercised an
RED BLAIK (Continued from page 10)
Holleder at quarterback.
this great Foundation college football will not be devalued
immeasurable amount of influence on me,
especially I am grateful to my former Dart-
A few minutes after the Superintendent left Holleder
by the passing of time.
and who has stuck me with a name which
mouth and Army players and to my old
came to see me. As he entered the office I got up, placed
May I repeat, it is an overwhelming
I'll probably never lose. I hope very much
coaching associates, many of whom have
my hand on his shoulder, and said, "Holly, you played a
honor to have received the Gold Medal
that you'll let me accept this award, not for
come far to be with us tonight.
good game yesterday and I am proud of you. You're mak-
Award from the National Football Foun-
myself, but on behalf of the people in Viet-
It is to each one of you then, I give my hearty
ing fine progress as our quarterback. With moisture in
dation. I am grateful to the Foundation
nam, in particularly the company that I had
thanks, my warm thanks, for this inspiring and memor-
his eyes, Holly replied, "I know what the cadets are
and to you friends of Football, but more
the pleasure and was most fortunate enough
able evening.
saying, I have heard the officers talk, and I came fully
(Continued on page 11)
to command, the ones that did the work, the
Thank you.
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Robert A. Hall
Admiral Thomas Hamilton
Presents the Scholar-Athletes
Inducts Hall of Famers
Robert Glenn Etter. Dynamite still comes
JOHN DALY: I'm sure the Lonesome End will forgive
in small packages. Despite his 150-pounds, he led the
me if his exalted presence here reminded me to read
Southeastern Conference in scoring as the University of
you some more of a newspaper, I don't know how many
Georgia's game-breaking kicking specialist. A native of
of you saw this. Jimmy Jemail, the inquiring photographer
Signal Mountain, Tennessee, the five foot-eleven inch
went out to ask the question of the Army-Navy game:
Etter is an "A" student with a 91 grade point average.
Should football games that end in a tie score be decided
His major field of study is Mathematics and Physics. His
by a sudden death playoff? And, as a layman with no
anticipated post-graduate field of study is Mathematics.
football skills, I was happy to read of the unanimity of
As an entering freshman, he had the highest score in
opinion in this matter. Admiral David L. McDonald, Chief
Math-Science category. He has been on the Dean's List
of Naval Operations, said, "No. Much as I like to see
for nine quarters. He was in the top five percent of the
Navy a winner in the greatest of all football classics, the
freshman class and in the top ten percent of his sophomore
annual Army-Navy game would tend to get away from
and junior classes. He is vice-president of the University
COLLEGE FOOTBALL SPOTLIGHTED - All season, ABC-
TV's Chris Schenkel (c) hsa teamed with Bud Wilkinson on the
the amateur spirit of college football, with a sudden death
of Georgia student body, a member of Omicron Delta
College Football Game of the week program. Both were on
playoff." On the other hand, Major-General Donald B.
CONGRATS FROM THE COACH - When Harvey Harman
Kappa, Blue Key Society, X Club, Gridiron Honor Society
hand for the Ninth Annual Hall of Fame banquet. Schenkel
Bennett, the Superintendent of the U. S. Military Acad-
coached at Rutgers he got a look at Princeton's Dick Kazmaier
and Student Government Cabinet.
is shown at the press-radio-television press conference with new
emy at West Point said, "The one game I'd like to see
that he didn't particularly like. The Nassau touchdown special-
electees Charley Conerly, second from right, and Aaron Rosen-
ist led the Tigers to two straight perfect record seasons. Now
Stanley Juk. Better known as Steve Stanley Juk.
berg (r), and two members of the Football Foundation's execu-
played in overtime to decide the winner is the Army-
a Hall of Famer, Kazmaier (r), a shade heavier now, was con-
A Phi Beta Kappa. Six feet, two inches, two hundred and
tive committee, Jack Mohr (1) and Robert Hall, second from
Navy game."
gratulated by the Foundation's executive director for his elec-
ten pounds, from South Carolina. He is a ranking can-
left.
Like Charley Conerly told me this story
tion.
didate for All-America Academic team consideration. His
first, I like the description of a tie game as
point grade average is 3.7 out of 4. He is majoring in
being like kissing your sister.
pled in the wake of his triple threat paragon. As a senior
chemistry, and minoring in mathematics. His anticipated
Admiral Tom Hamilton, a vice-president of the Na-
he completed a hundred and thirty three of two hundred
post-graduate study is medicine. He is president of the
He's six feet, one inch, two hundred and twenty eight
tional Football Foundation is one of the Naval Academy's
and thirty three passes, threw eighteen for touchdowns
senior class, president of the Fellowship of Christian Ath-
pounds and he's a native of Jefferson City, Missouri. He
greats on the gridiron as you know, he was inducted into
and ran for nine more while punting for distance and de-
letes, president of Kappa Sigma Kappa service fraternity
was chosen as the University's Most Outstanding Junior.
the Football Hall of Fame a year ago. A legend in his
fending as a safety man with intuition born of inate ap-
and the Sigma Nu social fraternity. He is a member of
He has a 3.38 cumulative grade average over his years at
own time as a player and a coach and as a naval officer,
titude. Three years of combat duty with the Marines in
the Blue Key, and a recipient of the Atlantic Coast Con-
the University. He's won all academic honors in the Big
he is the Commissioner of the A.A.W.U. He will induct
World War II interrupted his college career but did not
ference Achievement Award for the past two years, and
Eight Conference for the past two years and All-American
the ten new members into the National Football Hall of
dull the talents which New Yorkers were later to applaud
also the recipient of the Thomas Moore Craig Leadership
Academic team recognition. He's majoring in chemical
Fame. Admiral Hamilton.
in this quiet man they came to call their Old Pro. Now a
Award, a three year varsity letter man and he has excelled
engineering. He plans to pursue a law degree specailizing
ADMIRAL ToM HAMILTON: Honored guests, it's my
businessman and a planter in his home community, Chuck
all the way in football and academics.
in patent law. He's a member of the Engineer's Club, Phi
great honor tonight to present to you the gentlemen who
Conerly merits richly the honor now conferred upon him.
Etta Sigma, Tau Beta Phi, Pi U Epsilon and Alpha Chi
have been selected as members of the Hall of Fame and
Chuck Conerly.
Studies Shakespeare
Sigma. William David Powell.
to be inducted tonight. This is done not only for their
James Robert Lynch, co-captain of Notre Dame.
Two Sport Star
Never Missed Practice
achievement and contributions on the football field, but
Jim Lynch, a native of Lima, Ohio, is an All-America line-
for their contributions in life afterwards.
Charles Roslyn Carney. University of Illinois,
backer, and for three seasons has been a standout on
John Andrew Richards of T.C.U. A member of the
I'd like to ask each of you as your name is called to
1918, '19, '20 and '21. By Bob Zuppke; this dauntless son
Coach Ara Parseghian's squad. Six feet, one inch, two
All-Southwest Conference Academic team. Richards, five
hundred and twenty five pounds, he is rated as one of
feet, eleven inches, one hundred and eighty pounds, is
stand while the citation is being given.
of Illinois was rated as his Alma Mater's all time exemplar
of end play. Walter Camp selected him for the All-
the great leaders in recent Notre Dame athletic annals.
from Fort Worth, Texas. He has a 3.3 grade point average
Accepts for Booth
American diadem. Winner of the four letters in football,
He's majoring in sociology and minoring in English. He's
out of 4. He's majoring in biology and minoring in chem-
For Albert (Albie) Booth, I'm asking Dr. Mal Stevens,
three in basketball, member of two Western Conference
going to attend law school and has applications in for
istry. He plans to study medicine. A member of Who's
his coach, a great orthopedic surgeon and a great Yale
Title teams, Charles Carney's record is one of com-
some of the better schools, we'll say, I hope Yale anyway
Who at T. C. U., he's married and is one of the most
athlete to rise and accept this for Albie.
petitive achievement. Though a career in finance and in-
and probably Harvard and some of the others. He has a
popular students on the campus. He was captain of his
Albert (Albie) Booth, Yale, 1929, '30, '31. He was
vestment banking called him after graduation, football
2.6 average out of 3, with grades that have all been A
freshman football team. In four years, he's never missed
small of stature, great of heart, and they called him Little
still shared his close attention for some years through
and B and it includes Shakespeare. His most important
a football practice or a class. He's rated as one of the
Boy Blue. In all the storied history of Yale football, none
assistant coaching at Northwestern, Wisconsin and Harv-
extra-curricular activity includes work in the Latin-Ameri-
best all-around scholar athletes in T. C. U. history. He
has earned deeper respect, won greater plaudits, provided
ard. After business responsibilities made impracticable
can summer project in the underprivileged areas. Jim
led the Southwest Conference in pass interceptions as a
more throbbing thrills. As a sophomore, in 1929, he scaled
further coaching activity his interest never lessened. Now
Lynch.
junior. He's regarded as one of the best defensive backs in
the heights against Army in a display that many still
and for many years, associated with a Boston firm, his
Charles Peters, Princeton. Charlie Peters, starting
that very competitive league. John Andrew Richards of
call the most stirring one day performance in Eli annals.
devotion to our game still marks one significant phase
quarterback for the Princeton Tigers for the last two years.
T. C. U.
Master of the art of the broken field, cool in crisis, in-
of a life career rich in fulfillment - Chuck Carney.
He's six feet, one hundred eighty five pounds, hails from
Michael Dennis Ryan of the University of Washing-
ately a leader, he gained the abiding affection of all foot-
Nassau's Modern Great
Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a University scholar. On the
ton. Six feet one, two hundred and thirty pounds, he's a
ball men. Kicking the goal to beat Harvard in his final
scale of one to seven, his grade point average is 1.09, and
game, he was a winner to the end. Enshrined in the hearts
Richard William Kazmaier, Princeton, 1949, '50
guard. He majored in economics. He has applied and is
he's majoring in chemical engineering and minoring in
a candidate for a Rhodes Scholarship and a Marshall
of those who knew him best, his enduring legacy in New
and '51. The only Princeton recipient of the Heisman Tro-
German. He plans to study medicine. His current courses
Scholarship, both which might take him to Oxford in
Haven's Albie Booth Memorial Boys' Club. In a life,
phy Award. Dick Kazmaier led the Tigers to undefeated
seasons in 1950 and '51. Twice he was accorded All-
include physics, engineering, chemistry, mathematics, and
England. He has an accumulative grade point average of
all too brief, he left a shining heritage that the years
biology. And he qualified for highest honors in the Physics
3.34. He's also interested in going to the Harvard Business
will never dim. Albie Booth.
America rating. In his three years as a Princeton tailback,
Department. He's been on the Dean's List every year.
School or the Harvard Law School. He's a member of
he completed sixty per cent of his passes, threw 35 touch-
The Quiet Man
Athletically he's responsible for blocking assignments and
Phi Eta Sigma, which is a national freshman scholastic
downs and rushed for twenty more while punting con-
play calling in Princeton's famous single wing offense,
honorary fraternity. He has played football for three
Charles Albert Conerly. University of Mississippi,
sistently for long average. On one of his good days against
and he's rated as one of the best at this position to ever
years. He is the ranking candidate for All-America and
1942, 1946 and 47. Long before New Yorkers knew him
Cornell in 1951, he rushed for 126 yards and two touch-
play for Dick Coleman and Old Nassau.
All-Conference honors this year and he has been named
as the guiding genius of their football Giants, Charles
downs and completed 15 of 17 passes for 236 yards and
William David Powell, co-captain of the Missouri
the outstanding senior man on his campus. Michael Den-
Conerly had begun to write his gridiron saga in his
three touchdowns as Nassau won 53 to 15. At his playing
Tigers. Bill Powell is co-captain of the Missouri Tigers.
nis Ryan of Washington.
Mississippi homeland. He led the Ole Miss Rebels to their
weight of 168 he was one of Princeton's most gifted
first Southeastern Conference title in 1947. Records top-
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on the part of the Princeton boys, Rip Miller argued with
Hall of Fame Induction
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the referee for five minutes. He wanted Princeton penal-
legendary fame as hard-nosed defense reached new
ized 15 yards for roughing the kicker.
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heights in three successive scoreless ties with Dr. Jock
Knew Irish Plays
players earning status alongside Hector Cowan, Hoby
Sutherland's Pittsburgh forces. As a coach Crowley won
Baker, the Poe brothers and other timeless men of Prince-
And seeing Ed Garbisch here tonight reminds me of
the hearts of his men in 95 games and losing 22 and tying
ton. At graduation, he chose advanced study in business
10. A Navy commander in World War II, father of two
the 1924 Notre Dame-Army game. Ed Garbisch knew the
over professional football opportunities. Today he is vice-
Notre Dame system better than we did, because he
sons, he is a successful businessman in Scranton and still
president of American Machinery and Foundry, a post
a raconteur of whom Rock, the master story-teller, would
played against us for eight years. He played end against
that belies his youthful bearing. Dick Kazmaier.
Notre Dame in 1917 when he was an end at Washing-
be proud. Jim Crowley.
Edgar Edward "Rip" Miller, Notre Dame, 1922,
Now if all you gentlemen will rise I would like to
ton and Jefferson. Well, anyway this was supposed to be
'23. It gives me signal pleasure to read this for my col-
induct you into the Hall of Fame. It is a great privilege
a great game, SO Rockne came into the dressing room a
league of the Navy, Rip Miller. One of the most artful
to admit you, each of you, to the rights and privileges, of
few minutes before the game and he says, "Boys, I just
linemen of his time, Rip Miller was numbered among the
this distinguished group of the National Football Hall of
heard that the Army, they're going to kick you off the
Seven Mules, who at the frequent and urgent requests of
field, and they're going to kick you off the schedule. Now
WHO'S THAT LADY? Oblivious to the lovely lady looking
Fame. Our heartiest congratulations.
Coach Rockne were good enough to help the Four Horse-
over their shoulder four Hall of Famers broke bread together
they might be able to kick you off the schedule boys,
I now have the pleasure of calling to the microphone
men advance to glory in the cause of Notre Dame. Now he
at 21. They are, from left, Pappy Waldorf, Pete Pihos,
but they can't kick you off that field. The team that'll start
is and for decades has been an important member of the
Charley Conerly and Lou Little.
Jim Crowley to respond for all these worthy gentlemen.
today will be Walsh at center. Walsh I want you to
Jim Crowley.
Naval Academy's athletic administration. As football line
I could tell you a few stories about this fellow, too.
throw a nice, light fluffy pass back to those backs.
coach, and head coach, and assistant athletic director.
Rosenberg heeded Horace Greeley's advice and went
Those backs are fast, you got to get the ball back to them.
I won't. Jim, it's yours.
As a high ranking student in college, he understands the
west. There he won national acclaim as one of Howard
Walsh will be backing up that line of defense. Anytime
value of the training that combines the work of the class-
Jones' greatest guards on southern California football
you see an Army man stick his nose through that line of
room with the experience of competitive sport. This is
teams that won Rose Bowl games to end the 1931 and
scrimmage, and he's got that ball tucked under his arm,
a point increasingly recognized today by our civilian col-
'32 seasons. And in 1931, snapped the Notre Dame string
Jim Crowley
I want you to drive him back five, ten, fifteen yards right
lege administrators and one of vital importance to our
of 25 victories. With reflexes that took him to the point
Hall of Fame Response
where he belongs. But Walsh, you've been looking pretty
service academies as they prepare men to lead the nation's
of contact with the speed of a projectile and the pur-
poor all year, you've been looking terrible out there. But
military forces. Rip Miller's career indeed has been one
poseful power of a four ton truck, Rosenberg was a major
JIM CROWLEY: Thank you, Admiral Tom. Your Emi-
you got to go out there and win today. Alright, at guards,
of usefulness to our country. Rip Miller.
element in the exceptional strength of the Trojan de-
nence, Reverend Clergy, distinguished guests and friends,
Kaiser at right guard, Wybol at left guard. I want you
Commissioned In Battle
fenses. After college he found his life work in the motion
it is my very pleasant assignment to respond for this
to go down that field and take the legs right off that
picture industry as one of Hollywood's notable directors
galaxy of former collegiate football stars who were just
fullback. I want you to hit him so hard you make his
Peter Louis Pihos. Indiana University, 1942, '43, '45
and producers, a career he interrupted for Navy service
inducted into the Football National Hall of Fame.
bones rattle. On small yards, I want you looking for a
and '46. Product of the adroit coaching of the late Bo
McMillan, Pete Pihos was one of the most versatile of
in World War II. His motion picture triumphs have been
We accept this distinguished honor with
play over the middle of the line and on big yards I
football players. Superb at end and full back. Grantland
frequent and significant, but perhaps not more satisfying
mixed feelings of pride and humility. We
want you dropping back looking for a forward pass.
Rice termed him the most talented pass receiver of the
than that 1931 afternoon in South Bend when Johnny
are proud of the fact that we are now as-
But you guards've been looking terrible all year, been
1943 season. Then this rugged native of Chicago, serv-
Baker kicked the last minute field goal to beat Notre
sociated with the collegiate gridiron greats
looking pitiful out there, but you too got to go out and
of the past and a feeling of humility for that
win.
ing in the infantry in Europe, won his country's varsity
Dame. Aaron Rosenberg.
very same reason. Our eternal thanks to
"Alright at tackles, Miller at right tackle, Bacher at
letter, a commission on the battlefield. Back home in In-
First Coach of the Year
those who saw fit to honor us. It's always
left tackle, you play tackle. On big yardage when Army's
diana in 1945, he led the Hoosiers to a Big Ten Cham-
Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf. Coach, Oklahoma City U.,
nice to be remembered. And I got another
got the ball I want you chasing that passer right out of
pionship. Three times he was an All-Conference selec-
Kansas, Oklahoma A. & M., Kansas State, Northwestern,
assignment from this committee. They asked
the park, right where he belongs. And on small yardage
tion. Later in top-notch professional football he was six
University of California. In his long and distinguished
me to tell two very brief football stories.
I want you two looking for a play over the middle of the
times an All-League star before retiring to coach at Tu-
career of coaching, Lynn Waldorf's teams won 175 games,
lane. Now a corporation vice-president in Richmond,
Good Ole Rip
line. But you tackles, you haven't been blocking, you
lost 99. He was the first to be named Coach of the Year
by his fellow coaches in 1935. The son of a revered bishop
I am happy that I'm back on the same team with
haven't been tackling, you haven't been doing anything
Virginia, he was welcomed back to his old campus this
Rip Miller, but actually the only reason that Rip Miller
right. But if you don't play your game today I'll jerk you
season for honors that commemorated deeds of two
of the Methodist Church, he was a great tackle at Syra-
decades ago, renewing memories that will always be
cuse in the 1920's. Several colleges have known his coach-
made the football team at Notre Dame is because the
out of the game so fast it'll make your head swim.
luminous in Indiana football history. Pete Pihos.
ing and each has been better for his presence, in the
rules specifically state that you must have seven men on
"Alright, at ends, Collins at right end, Hunzinger at
victory statistics, and more importantly, in the human
the line of scrimmage on the offense. And I actually got
left end. Alright, you ends, when you're going down
Went Out For Team
value. In 1936 he guided Northwestern to its first Big
the nickname of Sleepy because I backed up the line
under passes I want you nice, loose and liquid. No crow-
Norman Van Brocklin, University of Oregon. 1947,
behind Miller and I made so many tackles the first five
bars when you're catching those passes today boys. I don't
'48. At the University of Oregon they knew Norman Van
Ten championship. At the University of California his
minutes of each game that I looked exhausted and there-
want you down their field slow under punt. They got a
Brocklin as the fabulous Dutchman when he led the un-
Golden Bears recorded 33 straight triumphs in regular
fore got the name of Sleepy.
man down there they call him Smyth in the East, his
defeated Webfoots to the Cotton Bowl in 1948. Entering
season play, until tied by Stanford in 1950. He was presi-
Seeing Dick Kazmaier here tonight brings back to
name is Smith. And I want you down that field fast.
college on the G.I. Bill after service in the Navy, he failed
dent of the American Football Coaches Association in
I want you down that field fast, and I want you hitting
1951. One of the most respected men in football history,
my mind's eye a game that we played against Princeton
to win a varsity post as a sophomore. One year later he
in 1923. We defeated Princeton by a score of 25-2 on a
Smith so hard he fumbles the ball and pounce on the ball,
was the general choice for all-Pacific Coast Conference
Lynn Waldorf adorns the brief history of the sport. Lynn
Waldorf.
very, very windy day. And I don't wish to seem im-
because we think more of the ball than we do of Smith.
quarterback, nationally outstanding as runner, passer,
modest but I scored every point, not for Notre Dame
"Alright at quarterback, you, Stuhldreher, will you
kicker. As a senior his passing gained 1,010 yards. A meri-
Great Player, Great Coach
but the two points for Princeton. And I want to tell you
surprise me and think today, Stuhldreher? Will you have
torious career as a player in professional football led to
James Crowley, Notre Dame University, 1922, '23,
how that happened. I was doing the kicking that day,
a reason for every play? If you can't go inside, go out-
appointment as coach of the Minnesota Vikings. In that
'24. Sleepy Jim Crowley was an excellent blocker, but
along with our alumni and I got off one of my beautiful
side. If you can't go over them, go under 'em. Stuhl-
position he is active also in Boys' Club work and in civic
Knute Rockne liked to give him the ball on the critical
punts from behind our goal line and just as the ball
dreher, but don't be dragging them out of a hat. Think.
enterprises in Minneapolis that reach well beyond the
third down. This was in the time of the Four Horsemen,
reached its peak, a great gust of wind came from the
Think. Think..
gridiron. As apt example to use as the values of rugged
when Notrer Dame won 27 out of 29 games, climaxing
other end of Palmer Stadium. So I looked up, and I
"Alright at right halfback, Miller, you had a brother
competition, his impact on the community has helped
the period with a 27-10 victory over Ernie Nevers and
could see the ball coming back towards me so I signalled
here in 1909, a great blocker. You had a brother here
to enhance the concept of his sport in a constructive
Stanford in the 1925 Rose Bowl game. His wit as well as
for a fair catch. Well these Princeton boys are such great
in 1913. You had another brother here in 1919, a great
manner. Norm Van Brocklin.
his football wisdom helped Jim Crowley to become an
sportsmen that they honored the signal and they let me
blocker. But what do you do, Miller, on the off-tackle
Rosey Went West
outstanding coach at Michigan State and at Fordham
catch the ball and then they tackled me behind the goal
play when you're supposed to take the end out? You
Aaron David Rosenberg, University of Southern
where his Seven Blocks of Granite took on their own
line for a safety. It was rather embarrassing though be-
go out there and you close your eyes, you flinch, curl up,
California. 1931, '32 and '33. A native of Brooklyn, Aaron
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cause afterwards, after this great display of sportsmenship
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Inductees, Scholar-Athletes Dine at 21
Thirty-four Top Players on 1967
Ballot
Honors Court Meets
24 Vet Coaches
In Houston, Texas
Pioneer Players
Are Nominated
Being Considered
Thirty-four former college stand-
Twenty-four former college football
outs who played the game since 1910
Some of the Pioneer Foot-
coaches have been nominated for
were named to the official 1967 Foot-
ball Hall of Fame candidates
1967 consideration for the National
ball Hall of Fame ballot, Harvey
who played before 1910 who
Football Foundation and Hall of
Harman, Executive Director, an-
will be considered by the
Fame, Harvey Hafman, Executive Di-
nounced today.
Honors Court in Houston in-
rector, announced today.
The thirty-four candidates are now
clude:
Eleven coaches are included in the
in the process of being voted on in
Snake Ames, Princeton;
before 1935 group and thirteen in the
the National Football Foundation's
George Brooke, Penn; Zora
after 1935 bracket.
102 Hall of Fame chapters and all
Clevenger, Indiana; Bill
The before 1935 nominees include:
were preesnted to the Honors Court
Dague, Navy; Nate Dougher-
Edward Cochems, St. Louis Uni-
for consideration in January in Hous-
ty, Tennessee; Doc Fenton,
versity, Maine, Amherst and Wiscon-
ton, Texas.
LSU; Tom Hammond, Mich-
sin; Jim Conzelman, Washington Uni-
The 34 players since 1910 were
igan; Jonas Ingram, Navy;
versity; William (Butch) Cowell,
AULD LANG SYNE - Posing with photos taken during the hei ght of their college careers, seven 1966 Hall of Famers met for the
nominated by chapter members and
Tad Jones, Yale; Archie
New Hampshire; Paul Dashiell, U.S.
first time together prior to the Waldorf-Astoria Awards banquet at the press-radio-television press conference at 21. They are, from
left, Dick Kazmaier, Princeton, Rip Miller and Jim Crowley, Notre Dame, Pappy Waldorf of Northwestern and California, Aaron
screened by eight national district
Lowe, Drury; Tiny Maxwell,
Naval Academy; Jesse Harper, Alma
Rosenberg, Southern California, Chuck Carney, Illinois, and Charles Conerly, Ole Miss. Pete Pihos of Indiana was a late arrival,
committees and the Hall of Fame
Chicago and Swarthmore.
College, Wabash College, Notre
as was Oregon's Norm Van Brocklin. Albie Booth, the 10th electee, is deceased.
Awards Committee. They include:
And Art Poe, Princeton;
Dame; William (Navy Bill) Ingram,
Harry Agganis, Boston University,
Curt Redden, Michigan;
William & Mary College, Indiana,
quarterback, (1949, 1951, 1952);
Henry Seibels, Sewanee; Syl-
U.S. Naval Academy, University of
Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame, quar-
vester Shonka, Nebraska;
California.
terback, (1941, 1942 and 1943);
Vince Stevenson, Penn;
And Herb McCracken, Allegheny,
George (Bad News) Cafego, Uni-
Dutch Van Surdam, Wes-
Lafayette; Jonathan (Poss) Miller,
versity of Tennessee tailback, 1937-
leyan; Beef Wheeler, Prince-
Franklin & Marshall, University of
38-39);
ton, and Clint Wyckoff, Cor-
Pennsylvania; Earl (Greasy) Neale,
Eddie Casey, Harvard, halfback
nell..
Muskingum, West Virginia Wesleyan,
(1916, 1919);
Marietta, Washington & Jefferson,
Jack (Flying) Cloud, William &
University of Virginia, West Virginia
Mary, fullback (1946, 1947, 1948,
University, and Yale; George (Sandy)
1949);
John Pingel, Michigan State, half-
Sanford, Yale, Rutgers, Virginia, and
Harry Costello, Georgetown, back,
back, (1936-37-38);
Louis A. Young, Pennsylvania.
(1910-11-12-13);
George Barney Poole, North Caro-
The after 1935 group in-
Slade Cutter, Naval Academy,
lina, Army, and Mississippi, end,
cludes: Eddie Finnigan, Bald-
tackle, (1932-33-34);
(1942-43-44-45-46-47-48);
win-Wallace, Western Re-
Edwin Dooley, Dartmouth, quar-
Wear Schoonover, Arkansas, end,
serve; Ernest Godfrey, Ohio
terback, (1923-24-26);
(1927-28-29);
State, Wittenberg; Eddie Kim-
Nello (Flash) Falaschi, Santa
Paul Schwegler, Washington,
ball, Brigham Young; Frank
Clara, back, (1934-35-36);
tackle, (1929-30-31);
Leahy, Georgetown, Michigan
Pat Harder, Wisconsin, back,
Wilson (Bud) Schwenk, Washing-
State, Fordham, Boston Col-
(1941-42);
ton University (Mo.), quarterback,
lege, Notre Dame; Ed (Slip)
Elroy (Crazy Legs) Hirsch, Wis-
(1939-40-41);
Madigan, St. Mary's College,
consin Michigan, halfback, (1942-
William (Bill) Shepherd, Western
University of Iowa; Edward
43);
Maryland, fullback, (1931-32-33-34);
(Hooks) Mylin, Lebanon Val-
Leslie Horvath, Ohio State, back
Claude (Monk) Simons, Tulane,
ley, Bucknell, Lafayette;
(1940-41-42-44);
halfback, (1932-33-34);
Homer Norton, Centenary,
Joel Hunt, Texas A&M, quarter-
Herb Stein, Pittsburgh, center,
Texas A&M; Lawrence (Buck)
back halfback, (1925-26-27);
(1918-19-20-21);
Shaw, North Carolina State,
FINE GROUP OF SCHOLAR-ATHLETES - Col. Earl (Red) Blaik, whose syndicated newspaper football series makes possible the
Cecil Isbell, Purdue, back (1935-
Robert (Bob) Steuber, Missouri
University of Nevada, Santa
the graduate fellowship grants for the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame, is shown congratulating the 1966 recipients at
36-37);
DePauw, halfback, end, (1940-41-
Clara, California, Air Force
left to right, Bobby Etter, Georgia, John Richards, TCU, Stanley Juk. South Carolina, Charles Peters, Princeton, Mike Ryan,
21 luncheon. Awards Chairman Vince Draddy, whose committ ee made the selections, beams his approval. The youngsters are,
Lawrence (Larry) Kelley, Yale,
42-43);
Academy; Oscar (Ossie) Sol-
Washington, Tom Allen, Bowdoin, and William Powell, Missouri. Notre Dame's Jim Lynch was a late arrival.
end, (1934-35-36);
Clarence Swanson, Nebraska, end,
em, Luther College, Drake
Henry Ketcham, Yale, center-guard
(1919-20-21);
University, Syracuse, Spring-
(1911-12-13);
Billy Vessels, Oklahoma, halfback,
field; James (Jim) Tatum,
JIM CROWLEY (Continued from page 15)
That's what you're supposed to do, Layden. But is that
William Killinger, Penn State,
(1950-51-52);
Cornell, North Carolina, Ok-
you do everything wrong. You've been looking pitiful all
what you've been doing? No, Layden. You've been looking
back, (1918-19-20-21);
Harry (Lighthorse) Wilson, Penn
lahoma, Maryland; Leonard
year, you've been looking terrible out there, but I want
terrible all year, you've been looking pitiful out there but
Robert (Bobby) Layne, Texas,
State Army, halfback, (1921-22-23-
Watters, Williams College;
you blocking hard today.
I want to see some high knee action today.
back, (1944-46-47);
24-25-26);
Charles (Bud) Wilkinson,
"Alright at fullback, Layden. Layden, when you get
that ball I want you stepping high, wide and handsome.
"Alright, at left halfback, oh Jimmy, would you mind
Dan McMillan, Southern California
Robert (Bobby) Wilson, SMU,
Syracuse, Minnesota, Iowa
One man doesn't bother you, two men don't stop you,
going in there and playing your usual good game?"
- California, tackle, (1916-17-20-21);
halfback, (1933-34-35); and
Pre-Flight, Oklahoma; and
JOHN DALY: Well I had this funny story, but there's
Abe Mickal, Louisiana State, half-
Francis (Whitey) Wistert, Michi-
Henry (Red) Sanders, Van-
three you'll carry right on your back for a touchdown.
one thing my mother gave me, that was good sense.
back, (1933-34-35);
gan, tackle, (1931-32-33).
derbilt and UCLA.
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General Dwight Eisenhower
Congratulates Winners
Chester J. LaRoche
President's Report
General of the Army Dwight David Eisenhower,
first recipient of the National Football Foundation's Gold
In 1912 West Point had a hero in the making - a
Medal award when he was president of the United States,
football player known to his teammates as the "Kansas
planned to attend the 1966 Awards Dinner only to cancel
Cyclone." The conservative New York Times of that date
out on the final day because of upcoming gall bladder
said, "He is one of the most promising backs in Eastern
surgery later in the month.
football."
His telegrams to Gold Medal winner Red Blaik and
By 1958 he had become the President of the United
Distinguished American Award Winner Bill Carpenter are
States and he addressed the first of these Dinners. Most
as follows:
of us here tonight heard him then.
In a memorable speech he said that what determines
"Dear Red: I am deeply sorry I had to
America's greatness is what you and I are ready to do
cancel my attendance at the National Foot-
for others as well as ourselves.
ball Foundation's Dinner tonight. I had
THE CONERLYS AND FRIENDS - Senator and Mrs. Robert
looked forward personally to adding my
Kennedy were on hand at a pre-Hall of Fame dinner party for
To honor others you have come here tonight.
1966 inductee Charley Conerly, the Mississippi Old Pro, and his
congratulations along with those attending
talented author-wife, Periann. A Washington engagement kept
Concern For The Nation
the dinner in honor of one who has done
Senator Kennedy from attending this year's dinner, but he long-
so much as a participant in all phases of the
distanced his good friend Red Blaik during the dinner to ex-
Your concern, then, is not alone with
press his regrets and send his best wishes to the Hall of Fame
the camaraderie of the evening but with the
game and has so clearly exemplified skill,
Gold Medal winner. (Photo by Bill Mark).
sense of what the game can do to heighten
sportsmanship and integrity. Nonetheless, I
values you hold and feel are vital to the
send my very best wishes for your continued
nation. So it is the game both as a sport and
success and happiness. Cordially, your old
an educational discipline that we account to
GOLD MEDAL PRESENTATION - Col. Earl (Red) Blaik,
friend, Dwight D. Eisenhower."
the tenth recipient of the National Football Foundation's high-
you.
est honor, is shown being presented the Gold Medal Award
To Captain William Carpenter:
When the N.C.A.A. and the coaches approached
by Chester LaRoche, the Foundation's president.
"I wish circumstances would have allowed me to
some of us and asked if a Hall of Fame was needed,
personally add my acclaim to you upon receiving the first
college presidents, to combat excesses, had gone to their
A United States cabinet officer says: "Any question
Distinguished American Medal awarded by the National
own extremes. Eventually, 130 dropped the game.
that cannot be dealt with by one of the special leader-
Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. Though my ab-
We decided that first, to serve the common interest,
ship groups that we are in; that is - any question that
sence is unavoidable, I salute one whose gallantry and
the National Football Foundation should be organized;
cuts across special fields, tends to end up being dealt
leadership will long give real inspiration to every true
the Hall of Fame to follow, if proved needed, to be the
with by the government."
American. With best wishes for health and happiness.
result of our efforts. For the first time, alumni were
However, most Americans value the role played by
Dwight D. Eisenhower."
concerned not only with their own college, but with the
non-governmental leadership. But it is the judgment of
game itself.
men like John Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education
A FINE HOST - Southern California's All-America back
Presidents Responsible
and Welfare, a noted scholar, that it will not continue
Frank Gifford threw a cocktail-buffet party for his New York
under the present conditions.
Fine Hall of Fame Delegation
teammate Charley Conerly the night before this year's Hall of
One result, the extremes in the game's
When he was head of the Carnegie Corporation,
Fame dinner at Mr. Bernard Shor's establishment on West
conduct are closer together; the N.C.A.A.'s
Attends Excellent Dinner
52nd Street, which was attended by several hundred top sports
John Gardner had this to say in "The Antileadership
standards are steadily raised; Booster Clubs
personalities from the sports, theater, newspaper, television,
Vaccine":
radio and political world. Gifford, a future Hall of Fame pros-
are realizing that their obligations should be
"In those institutions today, (meaning
Forty-nine Football Hall of Famers, including the
pect as a result of his college days at Southern Cal, is shown
to the whole college, and not just a part.
our oldest endowed colleges) the best stu-
1966 inductees, attending the big December dinner
at left with his wife. The Conerlys, Charley and Periann are
Scholarships more and more are based on
the finest turnout ever as far as Football Hall of Famers
at right, and the man in the middle is a former Philadelphian
dents are carefully schooled to avoid leader-
need and merit. And, as a result, more boys
who made good in the Big Town, Toots Shor and his wife,
ship responsibilities."
are concerned.
can decide themselves where to live and
Baby. (Photo by Bill Mark).
Careers, which follow from the performing of purely
In addition to the 1966 Hall of Famers and Admiral
what to study. Coaches are increasingly
professional tasks, in a superior manner, are stressed by
Tom Hamilton, Col. Red Blaik, and Lt. Col. Felix Blan-
recognized as teachers not only of plays, but
the faculty. A world that does not need leaders only
chard, who participated in the program, others on hand
Mayor Lindsay's Lancers
of men; educators worthy of tenure. And it
experts is envisioned. The generalist is downgraded;
introduced by Blanchard of Army included: Dr. Joe
is clear that in the final analysis college
Alexander, Syracuse; Everett Bacon, Wesleyan; Jay Ber-
Put In Early 1967 Bid
the specialist preferred.
presidents must accept resonsibility for the
An antileadership vaccine is being inoculated all
wanger, Chicago; Cliff Battles, West Virginia Wesleyan;
game's integrity.
over the country. We read: "The image of the corporation
Jack Cannon, Notre Dame; George Connor, Notre Dame;
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Kennedys are not the only touch
Another result: Of the 130 colleges who dropped
president (and college president even) that is current
Bill Dudley, Virginia; Ham Fish, Harvard; Col. Ed Gar-
football playing family in town. New York Mayor John
the game, in Chicago, Georgetown, New York University,
among intellectuals today has some decidedly unattractive
bisch, Army; Merle Gulick, Hobart.
Lindsay's Lindsay Lancers whitewashed the Press, 12-0,
Fordham and 30 other colleges, boys themselves raise
features. It is said that such men compromise their
And Homer Hazel, Rutgers; Mel Hein, Washington
and is already pointing towards the MacArthur Bowl next
the money needed to play, bring back the game the way it
convictions daily."
State; Jerome Holland, Cornell; John Hubbard, Amherst;
year in the letter below:
was originally conducted - by the students.
Tasting the corrupting experience of power, they
Ken Kavanaugh, LSU; Clint Frank, Yale; Glenn Davis,
Mr. Jimmie McDowell
We realize and are encouraged that many others
become status seekers, the argument goes. Furthermore,
Army; Frank Kinard, Mississippi; Harry Kipke, Michigan;
Director of Public Relations
besides ourselves have played a part in these new at-
students read Professor Galbraith and "The Organization
The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
titudes.
Lou Little, Columbia; Tuss McLaughry, Dartmouth and
Man"; they hear that we pursue money, that business
137 Church Street
Brown; Bernie Moore, LSU; Pete Mauthe, Penn State.
Changing Times
has no social purpose, no satisfaction for the intellectual.
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
George McLaren, Pittsburgh; Cliff Montgomery,
Dear Mr. McDowell:
But much has changed in amateur foot-
Statistics Revealing
Columbia, Pat Pazzetti, Lehigh; George Pfann, Cornell;
I was sorry I couldn't attend your recent dinner. I
ball since we started; even more, in the
The following Harvard figures testify to the problem.
Fritz Pollard, Brown; Peter Pund, Georgia Tech; Kyle
hope you won't let that stand in the way of awarding
world, where things are changing faster than
They show that only 14% of the graduates in 1965 are
Rote, SMU; George Sauer, Nebraska; Carl Snavely, Cor-
the 1967 MacArthur Bowl to the Lindsay Lancers.
we are. No longer can you and I simply tend
going into business now. True, the draft plays its part.
nell and North Carolina; William Earl Sprackling, Brown;
Sincerely,
the machinery of that part of society to
Harvard's own investigation, however, indicates that only
Ben Ticknor, Harvard; Eric Tipton, Duke; Eddie Tryon,
Colgate, and Don Whitmire, Navy and Alabama.
John V. Lindsay
which we belong. If that is all we do, we are
another 10%, or a total of 25%, have any intention of
Mayor.
not pursuing what the total society needs.
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Chester LaRoche Report
(Continued from page 19)
ever going into business. That is against the 60% of yes-
terday.
At M.I.T., out of 1270 graduates last year, only 320
went into business or industry.
We visualize no big plot. Some charge that young
professors, who have never competed in our economic
structure, to correct what they feel is wrong, would tear
it down. Even that is doubtful.
Need to Mobilize
These prejudices are already being com-
batted by some of our leaders - men like
James Oates addressing the students at
Exeter; Roger Blough traveling to Texas
BUILDING FUND CO-CHAIRMEN - Roger Blough (l),
and Harvard. But this is hand-to-hand
chairman of the General MacArthur Adisory Committee, and
chairman of the Board of U.S. Steel, and Industrialist-Sports-
combat. We need to mobilize.
man John W. Galbreath (r), a member of the MacArthur Ad-
Mobilize we can - for the discipline of leadership is
visory Committee, have accepted the co-chairmanship of the
football's product.
National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Building
Fund Campaign. Foundation President Chester LaRoche (c)
Ideological Center
made the announcement at the Ninth Annual Hall of Fame
The Hall of Fame can be an ideological
dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria.
center with its own Research and Behavioral
Scientists, where we will relate the qualities
of the heroes of the past to those our nation
You have heard the figures before, but they bear re-
needs tomorrow.
peating again and again, until there is action. At Pitts-
We have already made a start. We have made re-
burgh, Dartmouth, and Notre Dame research backs up the
search grants to the American Institutes for Research who
following facts from one of our independent, privately
have the aptitudes of 400,000 boys on computers. And
supported colleges. Of the 1220 men who played foot-
at these dinners, and at others attended by 500 to 1000
ball there, from the day it first started, 97% graduated,
in 100 cities across the country, we bring into focus,
as against the average of their class, 85%. Their marks
at the time of the long-haired beatnik revolt on the
were higher than the average of their class. In two world
campus, the convictions of The Foundation. Reception
wars, they were involved almost to a man; and in leader-
to our ideas has been enthusiastic. But our impact is with
ship in business, government and the professions, there
the general public. It is one step away from the heart
is no comparison. The superiority is five to one. The con-
of the problem. It must be focused on the campus.
tributions to the alumni fund are 100% greater.
Time to Start
We do not pretend to have all the answers on how
Too often, the contact between students
to organize. We visualize some combination locally of the
and the leaders in our professions and busi-
presidents of the top banks and the newspaper, television
ness starts only after graduation from col-
and radio and department heads to recruit qualified
lege, four years too late. Contact should start
speakers for regular meetings with a self perpetuating
at commencement time in high school and
campus organizations made up of major sports managers
continue through college, for a business
and team captains and the school paper editors and con-
vacuum flows around our colleges.
cerned professors in the economics department. Nation-
ally, we want the power to stay where it belongs, with
Who best can go to the campuses of this country
The People.
than we who came from there? We go not for our own
businesses or professions, but in the interest of the boy.
Great Society
Not to see what we can do for football, but what football
We believe that a great society is a society in which
can do for the country. Our youth should hear why we
men of business think greatly about their functions. Join
feel that the American corporation - big or small - is
with us then to build a Hall of Fame that stands for
the greatest social instrument devised by man. There,
those values, which in a world of innovation, must en-
leadership depends not only on the lessons of man's past,
dure if our way of life is to survive. Truly, if those of
learned in the classroom, but in competition outside the
us who have played football together stick together, we
classroom, where an understanding of one's unlimited
can have a hand in shaping the future.
resources is discovered. There we learn about the most
important thing of all, of man himself; who is full of
And I offer as happy evidence that we
talk; who to trust; how to subordinate one's own ends to
are sticking together and facing the prob-
lems of leadership - the official announce-
a common objective.
ment that Roger Blough and John Gal-
The Competitive Man
breath will be co-chairmen of our National
Faculties should understand that here
Campaign Committee to raise $3,500,000.
is disciplined The Competitive Man - the
Held in respect and affection with a love of
man who creates the wealth that supports
football and a recognition of its dimensions,
our schools, colleges and government. They
their leadership means the Hall of Fame
should hear the overwhelming evidence that
will be far-reaching - and that it will be
we have to that end.
built.
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I not only want to add my welcome to that of Roger Blough's - but
also to express the appreciation of The Foundation for your tangible
evidence of support. Without it, we can do little. With it, a
great deal.
Many of us here tonight were in this room ten years ago, asking
ourselves what we could do to help college football.
We had no organization or money. An attempt to build a Hall of
Fame had already failed.
The game was suffering from the extremes that are characteristic
of us as a people when we compete.
On the one hand, the game had become big business in some of the
state colleges.
College presidents felt helpless under pressures from the Downtown
Alumni and Upstate Politicians.
To be sure, there were alumni who worried about victories at the
expense of the game itself. But they were unorganized; had no
collective voice.
We, who were in this group, decided to do something, for at the
other extreme were college presidents who, to correct the games
excesses, went to their own extremes. They would wipe it out.
One hundred and thirty-four did just that.
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The following statement by Dr. George L. Cross, President of the
University of Oklahoma, was typical of the attitude of Big Time
college presidents.
Asked if college presidents shouldn't exert leadership about
recruitment practices and coaches telling boys where to live and
what to study, he said:
"I couldn't persuade the Board of Regents to change what we have.
If I insisted, I'd be replaced.
I have never felt I cared to martyrize myself in this cause."
Plainly, part of the problem was with the public and parents who
felt a free education justified questionable practices.
Today, the two extremes are closer together. The N.C.A.A.'s
standards are steadily raised. Booster Clubs realize that their
obligations should be to the whole college - not just a part of it.
Coaches increasingly demand that they be recognized as teachers
worthy of tenure.
On the other hand,
boys enthused and willing to pay to play have
brought back the game the way it was originally conducted - by the
students themselves in Fordham, Georgetown, Chicago, and thirty
other colleges.
We realize - and we are encouraged - that many others besides
ourselves have played a part in these new attitudes.
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Pro football challenges interest as entertainment. It can never
match the valor of the amateur whose only reward is discovering
his best.
For our part we decided that if there was to be a Hall of Fame, it
should be a consequence of what we did, rather than our aim. The
stories of the heroes of the past can have no meaning unless they
serve the present.
To serve the present, in 100 cities our Chapters honor, at dinners
attended by up to 1,000 high school Scholar-Athletes. Coaches and
parents, in fact, the whole community learns that not only ability
in football, but integrity and application to studies and concern
with others are the dimensions to strive for.
The nation gets the same message, as we honor at our December
Dinner eleven top college players - often at the top of their class
scholastically, class officers and leaders in undergraduate affairs.
Our Honors Court elections to the Hall of Fame, to players of All-
America caliber emphasize character and leadership in life.
The MacArthur Bowl is given to a team whose manner of winning is
as important as scores.
And our Gold Medal Award makes clear that material success has
little meaning unless it serves the nation. These awards make
national news.
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Our brochure "Making College Count" - approved by 300 college
presidents, directed at high school boys and their counselors,
explains the obstacles in the way, and the path and disciplines to
these honors.
News of these activities is sent monthly to 10,000 opinion leaders
and members of our 100 chapters. Business men, college presidents,
coaches, athletic directors, news media are informed of our activities,
goals and ideas.
In all of this, we have realized that it is not our responsibility
to tell people what to do or what to think; what to think about, yes.
If given the facts, our people generally respond to the best. And
if they didn't democracy wouldn't have helped us build this nation.
Since it became increasingly clear that commercial pressures which
tend to lower codes can be replaced by competition to honor codes;
and that college presidents, if given support, will conduct
recruitment with the same integrity as they demand in the classroom;
that the game can exemplifies nation's highest amateur ideals and
be a breeding place of heart and spirit, we decided that a Hall of
Fame which would serve the present and dramatize these principles
was indeed needed and deserved support.
And we have won that support, for we now have a dependable yearly
operating income of over $100,000. And we also have $261,000 in
assets in a Building Fund.
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All of this the work of volunteers -- leaders in business, the
professions, education -- accomplished at low or no cost. Harvey
Harman and Jimmie McDowell of our staff sacrifice too to serve.
The Building Fund will steadily grow, for twenty College Chairmen,
the first of seventy-two, many here tonight, are engaged in a
low-cost Special Gifts Campaign. Gifts of from $250 to $5,000 a
year for two years from twenty-one of their alumni friends will
meet accepted quotas.
Although we are all new at the job, I know that men like Pug Lund,
Sid Adger, Bernard Gimbel, Clint Frank will find the time and means
to do that job.
In New Brunswick, leaders headed by Carl S. Menger have completed
plans to raise $100,000.
In Pittsburgh, Spook McClintock of Princeton, and Ed Myers of
Bucknell have set a target of half a million dollars.
An Army-Rutgers game at New Brunswick on October 15, 1966 will
focus on our groundbreaking ceremonies.
Charles Moore, Dean of The School of Architecture at Yale, has
been retained to advise us on the workability and costs of our
building. And on the game's 100th anniversary in 1969, at
ceremonies we will conduct there will arise a Hall of Fame that
gives expression to the best in the game.
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But much has changed in amateur football since we started --
even more, in the world, where things are changing faster than
we are.
So, we have new plans to suit the future, for it is the future
that challenges us most.
A Hall of Fame can be far more than we had originally planned.
It can be an ideological center, serving our competitive economy,
respected by educators because of our knowledge - through research -
of the disciplines of heart and spirit.
In our educational structure, marks are increasingly the measure
of acceptance in college. Marks sometimes measure memory,
specialized ability, and early advantage more than they measure
men.
One result -- many students working in particular disciplines who
become specialists.
Thath the named the game
But how about the generalists -- the boys who know more about working
with men?
They hear that business is dull - the pursuit of money. They are
told that the greatest satisfactions will be found in government
and education.
As a result, more and more turn away from business. Thirteen
hundred boys graduated from Harvard in 1965. Harvard itself says
that their best guess is that only 25% will end up in business.
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Who then will create the enterprises that mobilize the specialists?
Who will create the wealth that supports our colleges and government?
Every few years an archaeologist unearths another ancient civilization
that flourished for a time and then died.
Will we become bored, tired, rigid, unwilling to find ways of
self-renewal? Is it our turn next?
Anyone who understands our situation at all, understands we are in
little danger of failing through lack of material strength. If we
fail, it will be a failure of heart and spirit - the very things we
feel we know most about.
It will be difficult for educators and government to accomplish
what is needed without the cooperation of men like yourselves who
have an understanding of business and its relation to government
and education.
But unless business can help to find within our existing framework
a system in which innovation, rebirth can occur, we will fail in
renewal, flounder in change. Government will take over by default.
So those of us who are used to competing with one another must
join together to "invent" - if you will - the new social instruments
that discipline and develop men who care.
We have such an instrument in college football, which is the one
universal experience in our colleges that unites undergraduate,
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faculty, alumni, town, and sets standards for competitive campus
activities. And its dimensions are spiritual.
We already have some proof of its power. Of the 1,220 men who
played football at Yale, 97% were graduated - more than the
average of their class. Their marks were higher than the
average of their class. Their enlistments in two world wars
was far higher. Their success in the professions, government,
education, business was notably higher. Their contributions to the
Alumni Fund, 100% higher - alas from returns just in, apparently
the Dean of Admissions and faculty at Yale ignore the universities
own fact finding.
At Yale Medical's Psychiatric Department, consultations by students
only interested in the classroom, as compared with boys also
interested in campus activities, was in proportion of 10 to 1. Do
Admissions Committees use such information?
Perhaps Dick Day, Exeter's new Headmaster, is right. Education,
he says, is our biggest business. And courageously he adds - the
worst run. And Professor Nevitt Sanford, Director of the Institute
For The Study of Human Problems at Stanford University, says, "There
have been few innovations in higher education in thirty years.
Faculties are more devoted to the advancement of their own specialties
and suspect research is an instrument of change. So are resistant to
research into their own functioning.'
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I guess the trouble with us - you and me - is that we are students
who have turned into alumni. But I know leaders like Day and
Sanford welcome our kind of alumni interest.
We have other studies by Charles Caldwell of Princeton; by Dartmouth
professors; and others at Notre Dame and San Jose. These have led
to the development of a research program that the National Football
Foundation has worked out with one of our greatest institutions -
The American Institutes For Research, whose President is John C.
Flanagan, here tonight.
Leaders in the behavioral sciences, they train pilots for the
United States government and for our airlines; and have the records
of 400,000 high school boys on computers to analyze the factors that
make for achievement.
With them, we will find out more about the influence of the game
on our campuses and in after life; its great potential to lead
a moral renaissance and keep us a competitive society where the
power of decision is with the people - not in central dictation.
We will find out, not only what happens to the boys who play it -
but what happens to those in the stands. It is our conviction that
just as one learns from a great book or drama, much rubs off on those
who cheer for victory.
We have also found out that businessmen and corporations have been
more and more interested in what The Foundation can do to keep our
fiber tough and our integrity and competitive spirit high.
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To reach them, we have retained the finest College Fund Raising
counsel in the country, John Price Jones Company, whose President,
Ed Tuthill, will personally consult with us.
They will help us build new plans and needed manpower in corporation
and foundation areas to see that what we do is done in light of their
experience. With the American Corporation, the source of most all
profit - has today become our most effective social unit.
I have tried to crowd together many facts so that you will have a
sense of background. Later in the program, Roger Blough - who was
with us ten years ago and who I want to thank right now for his
generous and wise support - will tell you more about these things
and ask you for your ideas.
Perhaps he will take the time to discuss the Stagg Legion -- a
campus organization of major sport managers, captains, school
editors, who could bring to the campus regularly the story of
business by the men who are its leaders. In too many places
it is not being told.
It is my belief that what we do here tonight will help to
develop and multiply the kind of leaders the nation will need
we are to bring freedom to all men. Truly, you can have a
hand in shaping the future.
Thank you.
VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1
DINNER ISSUE,
DECEMBER, 1969-January, 1970
FOOTBALLETTER
The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
Centennial Football Awards Dinner Honors
President Richard Nixon, Poet MacLeish, Texas,
1969 Hall Of Famers and Scholar-Athletes
1969 GOLD MEDALIST - President Richard Nixon, the fourth
President of the United States so honored, proudly displays the
A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN - Pulitzer prize winning
Football Foundation's Gold Medal following Roger Blough's
poet and dramatist Archibald MacLeish (l) is shown receiving
eloquent presentation.
the National Football Foundation's second national Dis-
tinguished American award from fellow Yale alumnus Chester
LaRoche, the Foundation's president.
BUCKEYE NEEDLE - John W. Galbreath of Columbus, Ohio
whose favorite team, the Ohio State Buckeyes, stumbled in
the homestretch, commends President Nixon for seeing eye-
to-eye with the National Football Foundation in declaring
Texas Ohio State's successor as the MacArthur Bowl recipient.
Galbreath added that should the President ever become un-
employed he might obtain a faculty job at the University of
Texas because of his boosting the Longhorns as national
CHAIRMAN RUSSELL IN ACTION - Fred Russell, vice
champs. Awards Chairman Draddy, Coach Royal, and Texas
president and sports director of the Nashville Banner, the
tri-captains Street, Koy, and Halsell obviously enjoy the
NFF's Honors Court Chairman, reads the 1969 electee citations
friendly needle.
while awards chairman Vince Draddy listens.
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CHARLES BEDNARIK
at least one touchdown in each of three varsity games against
Pennsylvania, 1945, '46, '47, '48
Harvard and Princeton a feat unique in Yale's long history.
A campus leader as an undergraduate, Kelley turned naturally
Rugged native of Bethlehem, one of Pennsylvania's traditional
to an educational pursuit, declining the professional sports
heartlands of the gridiron, this all-America center whose
career. Today he is an officer and department director at
World War II Air Medal has four clusters, has inscribed his
Cheshire School, Connecticut. Richly does he merit the honor
name in lasting letters high on the honor roll of his dis-
now bestowed.
tinguished school. Superbly gifted in physical frame, he was
as well as an intuitive leader, devastating on defense, invariably
WILLIAM (WILD BILL) KELLY*
National Football
National Football
first at point of contact against the opponent's advance. In his
of
three varsity years, Penn won 24 of 27 contests, and was
Montana 1924, 25, '26
Ball
Wall
Agree
unbeaten in 1947. The all-America diadem at center went to
Native of Denver, reared in Montana, this rare spirit roamed
Bednarik by unanimous consent. Today, a member of the
the gridirons of his skyline country with the freedom born of
Pennsylvania Athletic Commission, a leader in Boys Club and
the peaks and plains. As a boy he led his Missoula high school
Boy Scout activities, he serves his community in constructive
team to its first state championship. At the University, his
manner.
breakaway runs in the open field assumed the beauty of poetry
in motion. But they were masterpieces which, for distance,
National Wall Football
GEORGE (BAD NEWS) CAFEGO
were poorly appreciated by luckless rivals as the scoreboard
figures mounted from the Kelly kickoff returns, punt returns
Tennessee, 1937, '38, '39
and runs from scrimmage. Against the nation's best in the 1927
In the resplendent span of General Bob Neyland's power-
East-West game, Kelly shone as his play was decisive in
packed coaching years at Tennessee, George (Bad News)
7-3 victory for the West. His was a brilliant career, a life
Cafego was a flaming figure. Ten victories, unbroken by de-
joyously lived, but much too brief. Fate decreed that William
A MOMENT TO REMEMBER - The National Football Foundation's "After 1910" Hall of Fame electees for 1969 pose proudly
feat in regular season conflict, marked each of the 1937, '38,
(Wild Bill) Kelly should die at age 27 while watching a
and '39 campaigns as Cafego's blinding speed, his churning
football game.
with Honors Court Chairman Fred Russell following their induction at the Waldorf. They are, from left, Gerald Mann, Southern
driving runs and his passes riddled opposing defenses behind
*Deceased.
Methodist, Larry Kelley, Yale, Babe Horrell, California, John Kitzmiller, Oregon, Les Horvath, Ohio State, Chuck Bednarik, Penn-
sylvania, George Cafego, Tennessee and Chairman Russell. The late Wild Bill Kelly of Montana was also inducted at this year's
the precision blocking General Neyland taught so well. None
dinner along with former Coach Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma.
but Southern California and Boston College, both in post-
JOHN KITZMILLER
season bowls, could match this force of Volunteers. All-
University of Oregon, 1928, '29, '30
America honors, of course, came to Cafego - honors he has
worn with distinction and grace during outstanding military
As a youth, this native of Harrisburg, Pa., planned a military
service in World War II and he devoted his life to teaching
career and training at West Point, in which case Army football
and working with youth.
fortunes would have been greatly enhanced in the decade
of the late 1920's. But the challenge of the great northwest
frontier beckoned, and the "Flying Dutchman" became a Uni-
EDWIN (BABE) HORRELL
versity of Oregon scholar and gridiron tradition. His authentic
University of California, 1922, '23, '24
triple-threat talents and tactical genius were major factors in
the advance of the Oregon forces to a share of the Pacific
The gift of leadership was inherent in this man who captained
Coast title in 1929. An Air Force captain of conspicuous serv-
the last of the invincible "Wonder Teams" created by Andy
ice in World War II, John Kitzmiller now makes an important
Smith at Berkeley from 1920 to 1924. Horrell's Pasadena high
contribution to the business and economic health of the com-
school named its field in his honor after his graduation. Per-
munity as head of his important manufacturing organization
haps California should have done the same when he blocked
in the Willamette region of Northwest Oregon.
an Ernie Nevers goal-line punt and scored the first touchdown
in the newly dedicated stadium. Pop Warner called Horrell
"one of the greatest centers ever to play the game." Quickly
GERALD MANN
successful in coaching, he took the UCLA Bruins to their first
Southern Methodist University, 1925, '26, '27
Rose Bowl in 1943. Engaged now in land and fruit packing
enterprises, this many-sided man adds conspicuous public serv-
With elan and extraordinary skills afoot and in the air, Gerald
ice through support of the United Parkinson Foundation that
Mann helped to make the Southern Methodist aerial circus a
would stamp out a dread disease. Here, indeed, is a leader of
spectacular display during three exciting campaigns in the
whom our sport may be greatly proud.
Texas '20's. The Mustang conquests included the Southwest
Conference title of 1926, and all Conference honors for
HERE COMES THE CARDINAL - His Eminence Terence
Quarterback Mann in junior and senior seasons. His campus
Cardinal Cooke, continuing the tradition of his illustrious
LES HORVATH
leadership presaged larger leadership later as, having earned
predecessor Francis Cardinal Spellman, gave the invocation
at the 1969 Hall of Fame dinner in New York. Shown with the
Ohio State, 1941, '42, '43, '44
the Harvard law degree, Gerald Mann served his State of
Cardinal are Yale men Ted Blair (c) and Chet LaRoche.
Texas as Secretary of State and Attorney General. He has also
Native of South Bend, Ind., this Hoosier son became in 1944
been president of the Dallas Council of World Affairs and is
the first Ohio State recipient of the Heisman Trophy. As
a member of the SMU Board of Governors. "The most inspir-
runner, as wingback, as pass receiver and as inspiring team
ing quarterback of my coaching career," Ray Morrison has
The 1970 National Football Foundation Awards
leader, the Buckeyes have boasted no representative more
called him. Equally inspiring to his Texas community has
HALL OF FAMERS' RESPONSE - Charles (Bud) Wilkinson,
gifted, more resourceful, more worthy of the "Player of the
been his record of constructive leadership in public service.
Banquet will be held December 8 in New York
former Oklahoma football coach and now a special assistant
Year" Award bestowed upon him. Thus did the Big Ten title
at the Waldorf-Astoria.
to President Nixon, delivered the Hall of Famers' response at
come to Columbus, and the first season without defeat in 24
the 12th annual NFF Awards banquet. (page 8)
years. Upon graduation, Navy service was followed by training
CHARLES (BUD) WILKINSON
in the U. S. Naval Dental Corps and ultimate education in
University of Oklahoma (Coach)
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OFFICERS
that profession. Now long established in Los Angeles, he shares
with other interested practitioners a scientific program designed
Superb teacher of the gridiron's strategy and skills, author of
DECEMBER, 1969-JANUARY, 1970
NEW YORK OFFICE
Chester J. LaRoche, President
to assure facial protection of school football players of the
Oklahoma's "Golden Age" of football, this son of Minnesota,
Thomas J. Hamilton, Vice President
Class of 1937, has written an enduring chapter in the saga of
The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
11 East 44th Street
community.
Edgar W. Garbisch, Vice President
our sport. The period of football he introduced on the Great
Plains has seen no superior in our football century with respect
Suite 1604
Earl H. Blaik, Vice President
LAWRENCE (LARRY) KELLEY
to victories won, conference honors, national acclaim and
Published by
Vincent Draddy, Vice President
Yale, 1934, '35, '36
complete respect for the game's standards. His fellow mentors
Telephone: Area code 212-661-0534
Clinton E. Frank, Vice President
named him "Coach of the Year" in 1949. In World War II,
The National Football Foundation and
Wallace Girling, Vice President
Debonair, daring and dedicated, this gifted son of Eli smiled
aboard USS Enterprise, he saw action at Iwo Jima, Kyushu
Hall of Fame
often at impending disaster, then turned it into triumph. Ir-
and Okinawa. He has served two Presidents of the United
Joseph D. Tooker, Jr., Treasurer
repressible, perceptive and completely fearless, he possessed the
States is presently in executive capacity to President Nixon.
New Brunswick, N. J.
JIMMIE McDowell, Editor
Robert A. Hall, Secretary
genius for the impossible. He was an inspiring captain. As an
His is a career that merits richly the accolade now bestowed
Jimmie McDowell, Administrative Head
all-America end he scored 91 points in his senior season. He
as we welcome him to the Football Hall of Fame in this
Telephone: CHarter 7-1766
of Chapters
was the first Yale recipient of the Heisman Trophy. He scored
Centennial Year.
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1969 Scholar-Athlete Citations
Trojan Knights, and the title of Vice-Captain of the Rugby
team. High in the roster of his gridiron peers, his name will
College Football's Biggest Night
TIMOTHY F. CALLAWAY, III, University of Georgia - At
be long remembered for achievement in the record of his years.
the University of Georgia, where the complex of arts of line-
play are always under intent and continuing study and ap-
CHARLES LONGNECKER, United States Air Force Academy
plication, they have had few students more able than Tim
By unanimous consent, this tall Texan is the most effective
Callaway in his role as defensive guard during his three-year
split end in the brief history of Air Force football. With each
stint on the varsity. To his splendid gifts of physical assets, he
pass reception he creates a new Academy record. Unanimous
adds an inherent talent for instant analysis a trait well re-
also is the faculty concensus that here is the completely su-
called by the Tennessee Vols in 1968 when the Callaway per-
perior student Dean's List every term; a classroom leader in
formance shone. Recipient of The Coffee County Award of
discussion and research; an uncommon aptitude in his major
1969 for outstanding team effort, he matches that motivation
field, Engineering Mechanics, in which his average is 4.0 on
with a 3.44 classroom average in Business, with Marketing
a basis of 4.0. In the broad curriculum, he rates 3.34. His
his major, thus providing ample evidence of his educational
research project in aircraft structural dynamics will be sub-
values. Postgraduate study of Law will be Callaway's ultimate
mitted for a Guggenheim Fellowship. Postgraduate study will
goal, but first he will serve the tour of active military duty
take him to Georgia Tech or Stanford. Such talent, turned to
for which Army ROTC training has prepared him. A leader in
our nation's service, is the priceless gift here offered, In that
the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, secretary-treasurer of
fact, our sport may share in some degree a just pride.
the "G" Club, he compiles a record of sound contribution to
MICHAEL VINCENT ORIARD, University of Notre Dame
his alma mater.
- The Doctor of Philosophy degree in English is the postgrad-
JOHN F. CRAMER, Harvard University - Leadership based
uate goal of this towering native of Spokane, Wash., whose
on example through solid, effective performance has made
leadership as center and offensive captain has made the Irish
one of the nation's most talented forces of 1969. President of
John Cramer, Harvard defensive end and 1969 captain, a foot-
ball player's football player. Similar motivation as he moves
the campus Northwest Club, a member of the Dean's List in
toward his primary objective - academic excellence in prepara-
all four years, with grades averaging 3.673 in the 4.0 system,
tion for a career in Medicine - has made this Biology major
he has elected no academic soft spots. Mathematics and Philos-
a regular on the Dean's List, a high-stand man on his class
ophy are his fields of minor concentration. Here, in action on
roster. His defensive end play has earned him All-Ivy, All-
the field, is loosed a devastating drive as, with unerring execu-
New England, All-East and All-American honorable mention.
tion of assignment, Oriord moves to the target with beautifully
An aggressive competitor, he applies well the lessons learned.
coordinated thrust of his 240 intellectual pounds. Knute
Treasurer of the Varsity Club, member of the University's
Rockne, himself a teaching intellectual in the classroom,
House Committees, he assumes his share of responsibility as a
would have gloried in this large Westerner. There has been
campus citizen. A competent judge calls him "one of Harvard's
no audible complaint from Ara Parseghian. Under the historic
finest players of the last decade; surely one of our finest
Golden Dome, the vote is unanimous.
leaders. Thus does John Cramer meet well the testing chal-
DANIEL LEE PIKE, United States Naval Academy - Mid-
lenge of the Foundation's Scholar-Athlete's standard of ex-
shipman Pike was co-captain and varsity halfback of the 1969
cellence.
Navy team. His major field of study is Aerospace Engineering.
THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION'S 1969 SCHOLAR-ATHLETES - Generally regarded as one of the best Scholar-
His resolve should be rewarded by excellent results, for his
Athlete groups to ever be honored by the National Football Foundation, the 1969 Scholar-Athletes' averages ranged from 3.4 to
HARRY LEE GONSO, Indiana University - Harry Gonso is
qualifications are impeccable. They include a grade-point aver-
3.9 and the eleven honorees were all campus leaders and standout gridders as well. The group includes, front row, from left,
considered by veteran observers to be the finest field leader
age of 3.9 on the basis of 4.0. Midshipman Pike has been
Dan Pike, Navy; George Joseph, Penn; Chairman Vince Draddy; Father Theodore Hesburgh, President of Notre Dame, who read
they have known in many years at Indiana, and one of the
Navy's heavy-duty back for three seasons and has ranged in
the Scholar-Athletes' citations; Harry Gonso, Indiana, and Fred Khasigian, Southern California. Top row, Tim Callaway, Georgia;
outstanding campus citizens. Three years the starting quarter-
on the top ten of Navy's all-time rushing list. Other cre-
Charles Longnecker, Air Force Academy; Terry Stewart, Arkansas; John Cramer, Harvard; Ted Shadid, Army; Randall Reeves,
back; three years a denizen of the Dean's list; most valuable
dentials as a Scholar-Athlete include his membership on the
Nebraska, and Mike Oriard, Notre Dame.
player and All-Conference and All-Midwest back, he has been
Superintendent's List, the Dean's List, Trident Scholar project
honored also by membership on the Academic All-American
and nomination for the Rhodes Scholarship. The post of
and Academic Big Ten teams. His major field of study is
Brigade Commander (Winter 1969-70) marks him as one of
Business, with emphasis on Marketing. His grade-point aver-
four top midshipmen. He was Midshipmen Executive Officer
age is 3.5 on a basis of 4.0. His graduate work will be taken
of his sophomore cruise. He is president of the Naval Academy
in Law. On the field a "take charge" leader who exudes con-
Christian Association. Thus he demonstrates in generous degree
fidence, off the field a quiet and studious man, Gonso re-
the qualities Navy seeks in its mission on behalf of our na-
cently drew from a senior member of the faculty this com-
tional defense.
ment: "I don't know what he will be doing ten years from
now, but whatever it is, he will be in charge." With fidelity,
RANDALL REEVES, University of Nebraska - Randall
this young Hoosier represents leadership in action.
Reeves was a National Merit Scholar and high school vale-
dictorian as an Omaha schoolboy. He has richly fulfilled ex-
GEORGE JOSEPH, University of Pennsylvania - A starting
pectations at the University of Nebraska in its Centennial Col-
center every Saturday, Penn's 1969 captain has played almost
lege. In varsity football, he has started at the safety position
every minute of his varsity career. A Biology major in pre-
for three years with outstanding performance. His academic
medical courses, he wears the Phi Beta Kappa key, and
conquest has been no less meaningful. In three and one-half
those of the Junior and Senior honorary societies. As a junior
years of study, with History as his major discipline, he has re-
his field leadership was a major ingredient in Penn's success
ceived only two grades of less than "A" while compiling a
as the Quakers compiled their most successful record of late
point average of 4.011 on a scale that marks 4.500 as perfect.
years a contribution appropriately recognized and rewarded
English and Political Science are his minor fields. They contri-
when Joseph became the first recipient of the Greville Munger
bute usefully to his preparation for college teaching or govern-
Memorial Scholarship for academic and all-around excellence.
ment service. Campus and community contributions have
Mild in manner, positive in attitude, aggressive in action, he
marked his college years. He has worked with the Governor's
leads by example with concern for the individual, a concept
Council for Youth. He is president of Phi Eta Sigma honorary
too rare in the field of rugged strife. Thus the ancient pro-
society. Education on the campus, in the classroom, on the
fession of Medicine beckons once more from the college grid-
gridiron - the Scholar-Athlete.
iron a man whose gifts, ideals and motivation will serve the
community well.
THEODORE M. SHADDID, JR., United States Military
Academy - Two years a varsity center, before that a junior
HARRY ALFRED KHASIGIAN, University of Southern Cali-
varsity tackle, Cadet Shaddid owns the lofty standing of No.
fornia - Effective versatility is the key to this man's purpose-
28 in a class of 752, with a scholastic average of 3.71 on the
ful 'game plan" of life a life to be spent in the healing
basis of 4.0. Consistently in top form, he has started every
arts of Medicine as he completes his brilliant record as a
game of his junior and senior years. Large in stature physically
220-pound offensive guard for the Trojan legions. Khasigian
as intellectually, he stands 6 feet, 3 inches and weighs 230
approaches his high objective wth assurance provided by a
pounds. He is one of the Academy's stand-out men in Military
robust 3.72 grade point average on the 4.0 point base. Psy-
Aptitude and Leadership. His area of concentration is Na-
MacARTHUR BOWL ACCEPTED - Texas Coach Darrell Royal accepted the National Football Foundation's MacArthur Bowl
chology has been his undergraduate major field of concentra-
tional Security and Public Affairs. With honors as a "Distin-
tion. Six times a repeater on the Dean's List; twice a veteran
guished Cadet" and member of the Cadet Academic Council,
for the second time in December. Royal's 1963 Longhorns also won the MacArthur Bowl, the last Hall of Fame banquet Doug-
of the Trojan battles on the Rose Bowl turf; 1968 All-Coast,
Cadet Shaddid plans postgraduate study in Nationad Security
las MacArthur attended. Congratulating Royal are awards chairman Vince Draddy (l) and at right Master of Ceremonies Chris
with All-America honorable mention, he also wears the Tro-
and Government duty for which his 1969 tour as an intern
Schenkel, President Nixon, and MacArthur Board chairman Roger Blough.
jans' Blue Key honorary society emblem, the insignia of the
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Since our product is Leadership, we should demon-
Chester J. LaRoche
strate it.
One hundred top Alumni including Presidents of two
Presents MacLeish Award
colleges, heads of several great prep schools, Business
and Professional Leaders have been elected Fellows of
the Foundation's Center for Leadership. They with a
minimum of eleven other Alumni invited by undergrad-
Mr. President, Friends, Your Eminence,
uate leaders (two here tonight: Dave Hetzel, Dart-
mouth Sophomore and John Perel of Princeton) will return
The Football Foundation is honored as you, Archie
to their colleges to discuss regularly in seminars and at
MacLeish, accept the Distinguished American Award -
round tables the obligations and disciplines of leadership.
given only once before, then to Captain Bill Carpenter
for his example of valor that inspired the nation.
Who will accept the responsibility of keeping this
a competitive society, the power where it belongs - with
You more than any other in the world of letters and
the people?
great poetry have involved yourself directly with the
Having worked in them and in our field run the
events of your time.
biggest and best, we dare state that the American Cor-
poration is far more than a profit centered machine run
Yale, War: enlisted as a Private then Captain over-
by self-seeking men. Today it moves toward becoming
seas. Harvard Law, 1919, later Assistant Secretary of
the greatest social invention of man to create and share
State, two Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, one more for drama,
the wealth that supports our colleges and government;
author of Broadway's J.B.
deal with our common problems as witness the Urban
Coalition. However, there is one thing unfortunately they
In films, a 1965 Academy Award Winner.
don't do well - tell their own story.
You were awarded more honorary college degrees
than probably any leader of our time.
Anti-Leadership Vaccine
And when the NEW YORK TIMES covered its front
In our colleges, an anti-leadership vaccine is being
page with news of the moon landing, to give the event
spread. For on our faculties there are those who honestly
meaning it published in a prominent two-column box a
think that teaming up with government, specialists and
HAIL THE CHIEF - President Richard Nixon followed three United States Presidents to the National Football Foundation and
poem by you.
technologists should run things - tell us all what to do.
Hall of Fame Dais to receive the Foundation's most coveted award - the Gold Medal. Framed between Yale Hall of Famer Larry
A poet at a football dinner? Perhaps
They teach that many of our leaders seek only power and
Kelley and Southern California Scholar-Athlete Fred Khasigian, the President beams happily as he received a thunderous ap-
great poetry and football don't meet in the
money, cut corners and that much is wrong.
plause upon his arrival in the Grand Ball Room of the Waldorf-Astoria December 9.
contemporary mind. If they are related at
We agree. But, there is much more that is right. We
all, it seems they are related as opposites.
know the problems of pollution, traffic, the ghettos, for
12th Annual Hall of Fame Dinner
Yet poetry can be the illumination of man in terms
we created them. We know better than our youth the
of words. We hold that a great football team illuminates
machinery needed to correct these faults and with our
man in terms of action.
youth's help, we will.
Regarded as Finest Ever By Many
In discussing the subject with my daughter, she said,
As for wars, we have been through two and hate
"Why dad there can be as much poetry in a successful
them more than they.
forward pass as in a beautiful poem."
We welcome our youth's idealism and discontent.
The New York Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom again
THE WHITE HOUSE
Lessons Learned
provided the glittering setting in early December.
America's Purpose
WASHINGTON
All in all, it could have well been the finest of all
Whether you would agree I don't know, but this
But, you have reminded us and we will remind them
National Football Hall of Fame Awards banquets. Over
I do know. Ten years ago, wondering whether the heights
that the force that is moving us in this world was born
1,400 of the nation's leading business, industrial, profes-
you had climbed had dimmed the lessons learned (man
December 19, 1969
in our country almost two centuries ago. Prior to July
sional, educational, political and sports leaders attended
against man in competition), you answered, "I think
4, 1776, the purpose of nations had been to dominate
and would probably agree that this was the case.
I learned more on two Yale football teams I played on
neighbors. The American national purpose is the opposite
Awards and Dinner Chairman Vincent Draddy said
Dear Mr. LaRoche:
than I have before or since about certain very funda-
-to liberate men from domination, to set men free -
at banquet's end that he had never received so many
mental and important matters. Without more attention
that is the job we tackled in Vietnam.
compliments, and at the same time that the "caliber of
I just wanted to express my thanks to you once again
to things of the mind and spirit there can be no human
There are those who say it is nothing
people who attended is what makes the Football Hall of
for the many courtesies you extended to me in connec-
understanding, and without such understanding the tech-
but a dream. You have said they are right.
Fame banquet the greatest sports banquet in the country."
tion with the National Football Foundation and Hall of
nological information which man has gathered is mean-
It is. It is the American Dream. If for a time
President Nixon was presented the Gold Medal by
Fame dinner. The honor you have paid through me to
ingless."
we have lost our way, with youth's idealism
Roger Blough. Mr. MacLeish received the Distinguished
all of us who have loved and played the game of football
we are finding it again. If it is never
American award from NFF President Chet LaRoche. John
in countless back lots and fields throughout our country
The National Football Foundation has translated
achieved it is because human freedom is a
W. Galbreath awarded Coach Darrell Royal and his Tri-
during these last 100 years will always seem especially
your words into action to show that many of our youth
continually evolving condition.
Captains the MacArthur Bowl.
bright in my memory.
recognize these values. That is the reason for the Scholar-
Honors Court Chairman Fred Russell inducted the
Athlete Awards you will see here tonight and the reason
We are proud that it is one from our ranks who
It was a great pleasure for me to join you and your
new Hall of Famers. Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, Presi-
for similar awards to high school students in a hundred
illuminates these truths - an old Yale halfback who under
associates on December 9. I hope you will convey
dent of the University of Notre Dame, presented the
cities from coast to coast this past year.
Howard Jones hit hard.
my appreciation to them for all they did to make the
Scholar-Athletes their awards. His Eminence Terence
evening so deeply enjoyable and so successful.
So it is with a feeling of special privilege that in
Cardinal Cooke, Archbishop of New York, delivered the
And, as yesterday's Scholar-Athletes graduate they
the presence of one who loves the game as we, the
invocation. Broadway singing star Gordon MacRae sang
With every good wish for Christmas and the New Year,
reinforce our ranks. They join the greatest undeveloped
President of the United States (and from what I heard
the National Anthem. And Michigan State's Duffy
asset of our colleges - the Alumni. Well organized to
him say between halves at the Texas-Arkansas game
Daugherty delivered the humor.
Sincerely,
raise money, we as alumni must be organized to close
understands its strategic patterns better than most), and
The NFF Club Football Award for 1969 was pre-
what is called the Generation Gap but which is actually
in the presence of young men destined to help fulfill
sented by President Chester J. LaRoche to Loyola of Los
nothing but an Information Gap. The Foundation has
our National Purpose that I present you with the Foun-
Angeles (Calif.).
accepted the challenge.
dation's Distinguished American Award.
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Bud Wilkinson's
Thank you,
Mr. President
Response For
Hall Of Famers:
I guess you might say, "Once a coach,
always a coach." When I saw these eleven
great players, my first thought was - with
a little practice, these guys can win the
MacArthur Bowl next year.
I know I speak for all of us when I
say tonight is more than a great moment
in our lives. It is an unforgettable moment.
Each of us here has exper-
ienced the thrills that can come
only in the game of football. To-
night is such a moment. Some of
us have not been on the field, as
player or coach, for some years.
But what happens in this game
never leaves you. It stays with you,
in ways you could never have
1969 MACARTHUR BOWL RECIPIENT - Coach Darrell Royal and his
guessed at the time.
PRESIDENTIAL SALUTE - President
Texas Longhorn tri-captains Jamie Street, Ted Koy, and Glenn Halsell proudly
And now tonight, by inducting us
Nixon lead the thunderous applause fol-
display college football's most striking trophy, the MacArthur Bowl.
lowing Archibald MacLeish's brilliant
into the Football Hall of Fame, you have
Football Hall of Fame speech in New
not only honored us very deeply, but you've
York.
Texas Equal To Occasion
done something else. You've reminded us
"Winning the Arkansas game alone did not clinch
once again that football is more than what
the MacArthur Bowl for Texas," Awards Chairman Vin-
happens on the field or sidelines. It is what
MacLEISH APPLAUDED AND CONGRATULATED - Father Hesburgh,
cent Draddy declared, "but the manner of winning unani-
the game does to strengthen a man's mind
President of the University of Notre Dame, shakes Archibald MacLeish's
Extra copies of this Footballetter are
available at the Hall of Fame head-
and heart.
hand, while Cardinal Cooke applauds the prize-winning author's dramatic
mously convinced the Football Foundation's Awards Com-
quarters in New Brunswick, N. J.
speech at the Football Hall of Fame banquet. Joining in the applause are
mittee that Coach Darrell Royal's Longhorns were worthy
singer Gordon MacRae and Admiral Tom Hamilton.
successors to Ohio State as the MacArthur Bowl re-
cipient."
friend was right. Gratitude is never purer than then, as
Trailing 14-0, Texas rallied and twice gambled to
Archibald MacLeish
in my case tonight. There is no nonsense about justice.
overtake the Razorbacks, 15-14, and complete the regu-
I don't mean to deprecate unduly either myself or
lar season with a perfect record.
the good sense of your committee on awards. It is his-
The MacArthur Bowl is awarded annually by the
I have never faced an audience with a deeper sense
torically true that I played football at Yale. It is his-
National Football Foundation to the outstanding college
of personal relief than this one. And not only because
torically true that I won by freshman numerals. It is even
football team of the season. In the years since it was first
of the many affable and distinguished countenances it in-
historically true that I won my Y - as an all-purpose,
offered for competition in 1959, the Bowl has become per-
cludes but because of one distinguished and not always
all-position substitute on a series of Yale teams which
haps the most celebrated and most keenly sought-after
affable countenance it does not include. I refer to the
never beat Harvard. But to stand before this audience
football trophy in competition. Certainly it is the most
countenance of the late Johnny Mack, trainer of Yale
as a distinguishable, let alone distinguished, player of the
striking.
teams in the first decades of this aging century. Johnny
game would be a palpable fraud.
The Bowl was the gift of an anonymous donor in the
DR. HOLLAND ENJOYS RECEPTION - Dr. Jerome (Brud)
Mack knew who was entitled to be called a football
Glorious Memory
name of the late General of the Army, Douglas Mac-
Holland, Cornell Hall of Famer and the new Ambassador to
player and who wasn't. And what he knew he said -
Arthur. General MacArthur served for several years as
Sweden, was greeted by Al Siegle, second from right, and
I have only one glorious memory of those four years
out loud. His estimate of my claim to that honor was
chairman of the Foundation's National Advisory Board,
South River chapter members Bill Stout (l) and Chet Zdro-
and its setting is not Soldiers' Field in Cambridge but
dowski at the Ed Mosler reception prior to the dinner.
conveyed to me in eight soft Irish syllables at the close
and the Bowl was designed by Tiffany & Co. from sug-
the bar of the long-vanished Tremont Hotel in Boston.
of a disastrous afternoon of practice - disastrous, I mean
gestions made by the General himself. The Bowl measures
We we being the Yale Freshman team of the fall of
SCHOLAR ATHLETES (Continued from page 5)
for me - as we bumped back to the old gym on Elm
25 by 18 inches on its base and stands ten inches tall.
Nineteen Eleven - had just held the best Harvard Fresh-
It represents a huge stadium with rows of seats carved in
in the State Department provided valuable training. Cadet
Street in the chartered trolley car which served as com-
man team in a generation (Brickley, Bradlee, Hardwick,
Shaddid engenders tonight in each of us new pride, new hope
bination dressing room and transportation. "You'd be
relief. Miniature goalposts stand on a field of etched yard
Coolidge, Logan) to a nothing-nothing tie in a down-pour
and new confidence in the future of our national security and
lucky," said Johnny Mack, gazing out at the squalid
lines. The entrance arches on the stadium exterior are used
well-being.
of helpful rain and we were relaxing, not without noise,
purlieus of New Haven, "to make the training table."
for engraving the names of winning teams and there is
when the coach of that famous Harvard Freshman team
TERRY THOMAS STEWART, University of Arkansas -
Anyone who remembers the Yale football training
room for 100 of these. As a result, the Bowl can remain
approached us, looked us over, focussed (he had had a
When Terry Stewart receives a baccalaureate degree in June,
table of the days before the First World War - there
in competition for all but a few years of football's second
he will take with him lasting recognition as one of the truly
drink or two himself) on me and announced in the voice
century.
superior scholar-athletes in his school's history. This young
may be a few left - will relish the bite of that insult.
of an indignant beagle sighting a fox that I was, without
Almost 400 ounces of silver went into the Bowl,
man, 6 feet, 1 inch and 190 pounds in stature, is a candidate
Honors We Don't Deserve
question, the dirtiest little sonofabitch of a center ever to
for honors in the rigorous discipline of Chemical Engineering,
which took eight months to fashion.
But though the memory of Johnny Mack has sobered
visit Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was heady praise. But
in which he has maintained a 3.52 average on a 4-point basis.
Winners in previous years have been: Syracuse Uni-
Brilliant in the open field, he has been the starting safety man
me for better than fifty years it has not, as you see, pre-
unhappily I didn't deserve that honor either: I was little
versity, 1959; University of Minnesota, 1960; University
for three years, and in 1968 a member of the second All-
vented me from coming here tonight. As my friend and
but not that little.
of Alabama, 1961; University of Southern California, 1962;
Conference team. A 90-yard punt return was one of his 1969
class-mate, Dean Acheson, remarked in accepting a re-
thrills against Baylor. Perhaps more important, he made the
University of Texas, 1963; University of Notre Dame,
All-Conference Academic team and is listed in "Who's Who in
cent public service award from a Milwaukee organization,
I tell you this, of course, to placate the spirit of
1964; Michigan State, 1965; Michigan State and the Uni-
American Colleges." A campus leader, he has served as class
some of whose members were rather audibly on record
Johnny Mack and to propitiate, if it is at all possible,
versity of Notre Dame, 1966; University of Southern Cali-
president, currently is president of Wilson Sharp House. A
as feeling he didn't deserve it, "it is the honors we don't
the wholly understandable feelings of those in this room
fornia, 1967; Ohio State University, 1968.
man of excellence, he sets a high standard for those who
deserve we accept most gratefully." My distinguished
(Continued on page 10)
follow in seasons to come.
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ARCHIBALD MAC LEISH
the Senate of the United States) understood that poetry
ARCHIBALD MAC LEISH
opportunities, for example, to raise a barn by calling in
(Continued from page 9)
has no need of antidotes being itself the most powerful
the neighbors - in a technological age a game such as
who have run into poets before in situations in which
of all antidotes for the most grievous of all human ills
(Continued from page 10)
yours may be one of the few remaining means to that
they couldn't avoid them (a reception, say, at their wife's
human mortality. But poetry is one thing and men who
The Feel of Football
most essential wisdom. And though not every man can
club before a lecture they couldn't get out of) and who
write poems are another and no Senate Committee with
see no reason why they should have to meet one on their
a proper respect for the political future of its members
It is this that we know together in this room, all
play football, or would want to if he could, the potential
own ground in their time off. Let my anecdote appeal to
would willingly confirm for public office a man who was
of us, of all ages. We have all played this magnificent,
power of the game may still be greater than the inex-
perienced would suppose. To keep a human understanding
their sympathies. Think what it would have meant to a
known to perpetrate poems unless there were ameliorating
wild, extravagant, difficult and often dangerous game -
alive, to teach a human lesson, not every man needs to
freshman at Yale in the blue-sweater era of the early
circumstances. Football was the ameliorating circumstance
played it, not merely watched it being played on a small
learn it at first hand. As long as the experience persists -
nineteen hundreds who was already encountering sus-
in my case. And it is that fact which provides the text for
screen in a hot parlor on a Sunday afternoon. We know
the feel of it, the desperate excitement, the triumph, the
as it persists here - the idea will survive. And it is the
picious glances because the Yale Literary Magazine was
the brief sermon I am about to preach. You can put the
survival of the idea which counts.
publishing his poems - think what it would have meant
text in the form of a question:
despair - above all the sense of those others with us
to his self-respect to be singled out by a Harvard Football
who know it also feel it as we feel it. It is this which
coach in a public bar as the dirtiest little so-and-so in
What is there about the game of football - about
gives the game its power over our memories and minds
It seems to me particularly fitting and
Cambridge - of all places!
- a power which those who have never played find in-
fortunate that we should have with us here
the mere fact of having played the game of football -
Powers of Game
which permitted that Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
explicable - even incredible.
tonight a team - representatives of a team -
which demonstrates all this better than any
The truth is, gentlemen, that this game of yours (I
tions to adjourn in peace? What guarantee does football
will not call it ours) has powers of which even you have
offer that a man who has played the game whatever else
And it is this too which gives the game something
words of mine could do. I am not referring
more than its power over us - which gives it its potential
to the fact that Texas is "first in the nation"
never dreamed. It can not only turn poets into so-and-sos:
he may do or be, will at least act as though he were
it can turn them (which is not necessarily the same thing)
human?
importance in our troubled society, and particularly in
whatever that means in, say, Pennsylvania.
into assistant secretaries of State. It has, indeed, on one
Or put the same question in present
that part of our society where the troubles are the troubles
I am referring to the fact, obvious to anyone
recorded occasion, done so. During the Second World War
rather than historic terms? Why do men, as
of the young. For one of the deepest troubles of the young
who has seen this team play, that Texas is
my nomination to that office was before the Senate Com-
busy as most of you, take time to spend an
in the world we live in is precisely the loss, the lack,
truly a team and that it has a coach whose
of that sense of common undertaking, common risk the
whole successful labor has been to forge his
mittee on Foreign Relations, on the motion of President
evening such as this? Why does a man as old
as I, living a couple of hundred miles back
loss, the lack, of the deep delight of the common labor.
players into a team. They know what I am
Roosevelt, and I was there with it to be questioned in the
in the hills, drive through rain and snow
merely talking about. They know that "men
usual way. Except that the usual way turned out to be
Admire the Young
anything but usual. At the end of a long day devoted
and sleet to talk at such an evening? What
are brothers by life lived." They will never
moves us all? Why are we haunted by the
Unlike a great many of my aging con-
forget it.
to my views on Franco and de Gaulle and Chiang Kai
smell of torn earth and winter grass and the
temporaries I have the greatest admiration
Chek and Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune
taste of time?
for this generation of new Americans. They
(whose views on me were public knowledge) the session
care deeply about the world, about man-
Fine Delegation of Hall
was about, or so I hoped, to adjourn when Bennett Champ
Common Experiences
kind. They have profound, if not always ar-
Clark of Missouri tip-toed in with a small book in his
I think I know and I think you know too. There are
ticulate, misgivings about the direction
Of Famers Attend Banquet
hand which had, to me, an uncomfortably familiar look.
some things in life which have a poignance which does
human life on this planet, including Ameri-
An outstanding array of previously inducted Foot-
The Chairman recognized him with a nod. Did he wish
not belong so much to them as to the human circum-
can life, is taking. They are, to borrow that
ball Hall of Famers were on hand for Centennial's Foot-
to be heard? Well, yes, he did, now that the Chairman
stances which surround them - to the fact that they are
wonderful old Quaker verb, "Concerned."
ball Dinner at the Waldorf.
mentioned it. He wished to ask Mr. MacLeish a question.
common human experiences - experiences in common.
They have hope. They have convictions.
Fifty Hall of Famers welcomed the nine new in-
And he opened the little book to the page marked by his
War is one. No decent man ever fought a war with-
But all this is undercut and somehow crip-
ductees into the fold.
finger and began to read. It was, of course, a poem. Worse
out hating it. But, at the same time, no decent man ever
pled by a curious mood, a sense of lone-
Introduced by Admiral Thomas Hamilton, Navy Hall
still it was a poem by me. Worse even than that it was
lived through the fighting of a war who did not remember,
liness, even of helplessness - of isolation -
of Famer, Commissioner of the Pacific Eight, and a vice-
a poem by me on the subject of love - and the Senator
all his life long, the deep, almost inexplicable, satisfaction
"alienation" is the fashionable cliché for it.
president of the National Football Foundation the star-
from Missouri, reading with what the Supreme Court once
of the common struggle, the common risk.
Those of you who have teen-age children or
studded group included:
called "all deliberate speed," allowed that fact to soak in.
I tried once to find words for this in a poem about
grandchildren and who keep up with the
Dr. Joe Alexander, Syracuse; C. Everett Bacon, Wes-
When he had finished he glanced sardonically in my
my generation's war - what is now called, ironically, the
new movies, the new plays, the new songs -
leyan; Cliff Battles, West Virginia Wesleyan; Jay Ber-
direction, turned to the Chairman and announced that
First World War. With the permission of the shade of
above all the new songs - which appeal to
wanger, Chicago; Chuck Carney, Illinois; Paul Christman,
he would be interested to know whether Mr. MacLeish
the late Senator from Missouri I should like to say a few
lines:
this new generation know what I mean. You
Missouri; Charley Conerly, Mississippi; George Connor,
regarded the author of that as qualified to serve as an
know the mood. And, knowing it, you must
Notre Dame; Nate Dougherty, Tennessee; Bill Dudley,
Assistant Secretary of State of the United States of
Why are the old soldiers brothers and
have reflected often, as others also have re-
Virginia; Ray Evans, Kansas; Ham Fish, Harvard; Benny
America at the crucial point of a World War!
nearest? For this: with their minds they go
flected, on its meaning for the future of this
Friedman, Michigan; Otto Graham, Northwestern; Merle
over the sea a little and find themselves in
Chandler to Rescue
Republic. For nothing, surely, can be more
Gulick, Hobart; Mel Hein, Washington State; Bob Her-
I could think of no wholly responsive
their youth again as they were in Soisson
dangerous to a democracy, to a self-govern-
wig, California; Dan Hill, Duke; Carl Hinkle, Vanderbilt;
and Meaux and at Ypres and those cities.
answer and there might well have been a
ing people, than precisely this sense of in-
Jerome (Brud) Holland, Cornell; Ken Kavanaugh, LSU;
long and awkward pause punctuated by the
A French loaf and the girls with their eye-
dividual separation, impotence, aloneness -
Elmer Layden, Notre Dame; John McEwan, Army.
snickers of the Press had it not been for the
lids painted bring back to aging and lonely
"alienation."
Rip Miller, Notre Dame; Cliff Montgomery, Colum-
astonishing memory and brilliant sense of
men their twentieth year and the metal odor
bia; Ray Morrison, SMU; Ernie Nevers, Stanford; Pat
of danger.
total irrelevance of Happy Chandler of Ken-
I am not so fatuous as to suppose that a college
Pazzetti, Lehigh; George Pfann, Cornell; Pete Pihos, In-
tucky. "Mr. Chairman," said Senator
It is this in life which, of all things, is
game or what used to be a college game before it
diana; Fritz Pollard, Brown; Peter Pund, Georgia Tech;
Chandler, "I also have a question for Mr.
tenderest - to remember together with un-
became the greatest of T.V. spectaculars - can change
Wear Schoonover, Arkansas; Paul Schwegler, Washington;
MacLeish if the Senator will yield. I should
known men the days common to them and
the mood of a troubled generation. But neither am I
Ken Strong, NYU; Monk Simons, Tulane; Ben Ticknor,
like to ask him if he did not play football
perils ended.
able to forget that that same mood of isolation and lone-
Harvard; Doak Walker, SMU; Don Whitmire, Alabama
Far From War
at Yale." The room relaxed. The Press
Now football, of course, is far from war - modern
liness existed in our youth also and that many in our
and Navy; Whitey Wistert, Michigan; Alex Wojciecho-
stopped snickering. The Chairman rose. And
war in any case. But its poignance is that same poignance.
generation found in football that precise sense of partici-
wicz, Fordham, and Buddy Young, Illinois.
that, so far as I am aware, was all the answer
In football as in war, it is true, as my poem puts it, that:
pation, of common labor, which has changed the lives of
This illustrious group sat on the Hall of Fame dais.
Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri ever got.
The brotherhood is not by the blood cer-
many in this room - a sense which nothing - not even
Col. Edgar Garbisch of W&J and Army joined Bob Rey-
tainly, but neither are men brothers by
time itself - not even 57 years of time - can take away.
nold, Stanford and Admiral Hamilton on the main dais.
I do not suggest that football was regarded by the
speech, by saying so: Men are brothers by
In a technological age, when there are not many
Yale's Clint Frank and Princeton's Dick Kazmaier, both
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as an antidote
life lived and are hurt for it.
ways in the ordinary course of life itself to learn the pro-
members of the NFF Executive Committee, also were on
for poetry. The Committee (I have profound respect for
(Continued on page 11)
found meaningfulness of common undertaking - not many
hand.
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PRESIDENT NIXON
through the lines close to the goal and there was a
dispute about whether he went over and was pushed
Roger M. Blough
Richard M. Nixon
(Continued from page 12)
back.
Presents Gold Medal
Accepts Gold Medal
dental's or Pomona's plays better than I did, because I
I wonder whether or not, with the replays we have
was on that side.
on television, the game might have turned out differently
I learned a lot sitting by the coach on the bench -
if we had had television in 1925. I am not saying it
learned about football and learned about life.
would, Father Hesburgh. I have enough trouble with Penn
Gentlemen:
Mr. Chairman and Mr. Toastmaster, Your Eminence
Incidentally, since this is a night for confession, I
State. I don't want any with Notre Dame.
Three days ago a distinguished resident of Wash-
Cardinal Cooke, all of the distinguished guests at the head
want to tell you one thing about Chief Newman. He
Then my memory goes on, just to share them with
ington flew a thousand miles and impartially visited
tables and all of the distinguished award winners and all
played for Southern California. He played on their first
you, and interestingly enough I remember performances
both teams in the Texas-Arkansas football game. To both
of those who are here on this very momentous occasion:
Rose Bowl team and that first Rose Bowl team beat Penn
by men who lost as well as who won. That is rather nat-
the losers and the winners - and the difference was the
It would be momentous because of this organization's
State in the only game Penn State ever played in the
ural, I am sure you can understand.
breadth of a hair he extended words of encouragement,
meeting to honor the man that you have honored and I
Rose Bowl.
inspiration, and appreciation for a well-played, hard-
speak of others, of course, than myself and it would be
Now, because Governor Shaffer is here and because
First Rose Bowl Game
fought, tremendously gripping game - one of the great
momentous too because it is the 100th year of a very
I had an uncle who taught at Penn State and had a
The first Rose Bowl game I saw was between
games of all time - to use his words.
great game.
very distinguished record and because somebody sug-
one of the great Howard Jones teams of the early '30s
This adequately demonstrates that we have in the
I was trying to think of something that would ap-
gested that some day I might want to visit the campus
and Jock Sutherland's Pitt teams. Pitt was overmanned.
White House a very human man, one who - though
propriately describe how I feel in accepting this award.
after I have left the Presidency - I can only say that they
They had a fine quarterback in Warren Heller; a good
weighed by the unending trials and anxieties of high
I would have to be less than candid if I were not to say
have a great football team.
passer. And Howard Jones had a team that beat them
office - nevertheless finds time for our all-American sport
that because of the offices I have held I have received
35-0.
many awards.
Super College Bowl
of amateur football. In fact, it is almost an avocation.
But my memories of that team was not of the awe-
But I think Archibald MacLeish, in that perfectly
As a matter of fact, I was going to suggest that we
some power of Howard Jones' team moving down with
A Team Man
eloquent tribute to football, quoting Secretary of State
have a super college bowl after the November or January
the unbalanced single wing going down, down, down the
In his early days, although he says he
Dean Acheson, put it very well. He said, "The honors
1 games and then I thought I was in deep enough al-
field and scoring again and again with that tremendous
warmed the bench a lot, actually he played
you don't deserve are the ones you are most grateful to
ready because look what could happen: Southern Cali-
blocking, but of two very gallant Pittsburgh ends, Skla-
well and with doggged determination. He
receive."
fornia could beat Michigan and they would claim they
dany and Dailey.
was a team man and learned much from
I simply want to set the record straight with regard
were Number One; Notre Dame might beat Texas and
For the first half, I remember they
football of the power of group action when
to my football qualifications. This is a candid, open Ad-
they would claim they were One; and, of course, you
plowed into that awesome USC interference
guided by assigned responsibility, common
ministration. We believe in telling the truth about football
never know what would happen with Penn State and
and knocked it down time and time again
goals and inspired leadership.
and everything.
Missouri. I understand they are pretty good.
and held the score down. The game was lost,
Tonight it is a high honor to present the Gold Medal
So I can only say this: I understand that Penn State
Award of the Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
A Giant Leap
but I remember right to the last they were
certainly is among those that should be considered for
to the 37th President of the United States. Before him,
I can only say that as far as this award
in there fighting and that spirit stayed with
Number One in the United States of America.
Presidents Eisenhower, Hoover and Kennedy have re-
is concerned, that it is certainly a small step
me as a memory and the years go on.
for the National Football Foundation and a
What Football Means
ceived this Award, the highest it is our privilege to give.
small step for football, but it is a giant leap
Now, could I share with you for a moment, in a
To this President with the Award goes
I think of another game, Southern Cal and Duke,
for a man who never even made the team
somewhat serious vein, what football means to me? I
our special thanks for his achievements in
1938. I had attended Duke University for law school
at Whittier.
think that is what the man who receives this award, par-
high offices, for personally turning an earlier
and I remember that Duke came there undefeated, un-
I have looked around that wall. Whittier is not up
ticularly one who really doesn't deserve it because of his
defeat into a later victory, for his dedication,
tied, unscored upon. The score was three to nothing going
for his sense of humor, for his example to
there, I can assure you. I didn't hear the Whittier song,
football prowess, that is something he is expected to do.
into the last few minutes of the game. So out came a
the youth of America, for his love of the
either, a moment ago. In fact, only the coach from Loyola
First, without talking about those factors that are
fourth string quarterback, not a third string, Doyle Nave,
knows where Whittier is. We used to play Loyola.
tremendously important that Archibald MacLeish touched
great game of football and for his assured
and he threw passes as they throw them today, one
I got into a game once when we were SO far behind
on, the character, all of the great spirit that comes into
place in the history of our Nation.
after another, to Al Kreuger, an end from Antelope Val-
it didn't matter. I even got into one against Southern
individuals who are either participants in the game,
Gentlemen: As we think to honor President Richard
California once when we were SO far behind it didn't
participate in it or watch it, I look back on football and
ley, Southern California scored. It was seven to three.
M. Nixon by presenting to him this Gold Medal Award,
I must say that I was terribly disappointed, of
matter.
have many pleasant memories: I just enoyed playing it,
it is he who honors us by graciously accepting it.
course, but the woman who was to be my future wife
I present to you The President of the United States!
Just to tell you a little about Whittier SO the record
watching it, reading about it over the years.
went to Southern Cal and that is how it all worked out.
will be straight, it is a school with very high academic
Among all of the people who have been honored
tonight, let me say a good word about sports writers.
We met at that game.
standing. We had a very remarkable coach.
Today as we pay tribute to the players, I am glad
After all, I must say that this is not an unselfish state-
Spectator's View
that one of those who made the Hall of Fame is a
ment, most sports writers become political writers in the
The years go on and I am not going to bore you
coach, Bud Wilkinson.
end - "Scotty" Reston, Bob Considine, Bill Henry. So
with more of my own recollections, except to give you
I am just planning for the future.
Influence of Coach
a feel of what football has meant to me as a spectator,
But, in any event, thinking of sports writers for the
I pointed out in my acceptance address in Miami
and college football particularly.
moment, they have made football live before the days of
that one of the men who influenced me most in my life
I remember some Ohio State games. I recall going
television and even now for many who never got to the
was my coach and I think that could be true of many
to Ohio State to a football game, and until you have been
games.
public men.
to Columbus to see an Ohio State game in fact, until
My coach was an American Indian, a
First Recollection
I went to Fayetteville, Arkansas, I thought the Columbus
truly remarkable man and a great leader. I
My first recollection of big-time college football
crowds were the most exciting. But in any event, that
learned more about life from him than I
was Ernie Nevers against Notre Dame in 1925. I see Ernie
year, I think it was about 1958, I went there with Sen-
did about football; but a little about foot-
Nevers here and I sat in the stands with Father Hesburgh
ator John Bricker. Iowa had a great team. They were a
ball.
when Southern Cal played and lost to Notre Dame and
favorite over Ohio State.
One of the reasons he didn't put me in was because
I know the great spirit between those two schools. But
They led going into the last quarter. Woody Hayes
I didn't know the plays. There was a good reason for that.
I remember that game. I remember the score. I think it
- in those days, it was just three yards and a cloud of
A SERIOUS MOMENT - Listening to President Nixon say
It wasn't because I wasn't smart enough. I knew the
was 25 to 10 or four touchdowns to a touchdown and a
dust. They didn't have the passers. But he had a great
what footbail and competitive sports can mean in America are
four Hall of Famers, from left, Peter Pund of Georgia Tech,
enemy's plays. I played them all week long. Believe me,
field goal and I remember that the sports writers, Bill
big fullback by the name of White and he ran him,
Kyle Rote of SMU, Wear Schoonover of Arkansas, and
nobody in the Southern California Conference knew Occi-
Henry of the L.A. Times, and others, were writing about
starting at the 35 yard line of Ohio State, ten different
Paul Schwegler of Washington.
(Continued on page 13)
the game, wrote about one play where Nevers went
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FOOTBALLETTER
DECEMBER, 1969-January, 1970
DECEMBER, 1969-JANUARY, 1970
FOOTBALLETTER
15
PRESIDENT NIXON
ing to me after his heart attack. He said one
of the things he hated to give up was that
(Continued from page 13)
the doctor said he should not listen to those
Farewell to Harvey Harman, Bob Harron
times over the same hole in the Iowa line, going off the
football games because he got too excited
and became too involved.
NFF Executive Director,
left side, until they scored, and they won the game 17
to 14.
Assistant to the President
If you think enthusiastic crowds developed in other
Competitive Spirit
places, you ought to see an Ohio State crowd when they
What does this mean, this common interest in foot-
Die After Long Illness
beat anybody.
ball of Presidents, of leaders, of people generally? It
The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
means a competitive spirit. It means, also, to me, the
ability and the determination to be able to lose and then
had its ranks depleted in mid-December with the deaths
But in any event, on through the years, I come to
come back and try again, to sit on the bench and then
of Robert Harron and Harvey J. Harman.
more recent years, years that these younger men here will
come back. It means basically the character, the drive, the
Both men had been ill for most of College Foot-
remember and recall with the same zest and enthusiasm,
ball's Centennial season.
pride, the teamwork, the feeling of being in a cause
I am sure, that I do.
Harron, 71, assistant to NFF President Chet La-
bigger than yourself.
Roche for two years following his retirement as Director
This year, 1969, certainly of all the hundred years
All of these great factors are essential if a Nation
of College Relations at Trinity University, attended the
of football none could be more exciting. There were never
is to maintain character and greatness for that Nation.
Navy-Rutgers Football Hall of Fame game in New Bruns-
SO many great teams, never so many Saturdays when the
So, on the 100th year of football, as we approach the
wick after a long illness earlier in the year. He wrote
favorite could not be sure that he was going to come
200th year of the United States, remember that our great
the classic citations for the 1969 Football Hall of Fame
A FRIEND OF MANY - The late Harvey J. Harman, execu-
through, never so many times when a team that was be-
assets are not our military strength or our economic
banquet honorees which are printed elsewhere in this
tive director of the National Football Foundation and Hall of
hind came on to win or tie in the last quarter.
wealth, but the character of our young people and I am
Footballetter.
Fame for 13 years, died at the age of 69 two days after Bob
I am referring, of course, to Southern Cal, what they
glad that America's young people produce the kind of
Harman, 69, served the game of football for a half
Harron's passing following an illness of six months. Harvey
is shown at an earlier Football Hall of Fame dinner with
did to UCLA.
men that we have in American football today.
century as a player for Pop Warner at Pittsburgh, a coach
Walter Hoving (l) Chairman of the Board of Tiffany's, the
If you talk to somebody from UCLA they say it
at Haverford, Sewanee, Penn, and Rutgers, and as an
designer of the MacArthur Bowl, and Father Edmund Joyce,
should not have happened. So, watch out, Michigan, for
Champ's Qualities
athletic administrator with the National Football Foun-
Vice-President of the University of Notre Dame.
SC, it could happen. I am not predicting now. I have
I close on a note that will tell you why I think Texas
dation and Hall of Fame. Harvey was also president of
had enough trouble with Penn State. I don't want any
deserved to be Number One. It was not because they
the American Football Coaches Association and received
with Michigan. Before I get through I will only have
scored the second touchdown, but it was because after
the group's highest honor, the Amos Alonzo Stagg award.
friends in Texas and I didn't carry Texas. So let's not
the first touchdown when they were behind 14 to 0, the
Both men served their country with distinction as
talk any further about that.
coach sent in a play. They executed the play and they
commissioned officers in World War II.
went for two. When they went for two and the score was
Great Presidents
8 to 14, they moved the momentum in their direction.
But now, one serious moment. Archibald Mac Leish
They were not sure to win because Arkansas still had
did say what I wish I could have written about what
a lot of fight left and I remember the great drive in those
Harman Scholar-Athlete
football means to this country, what it means to me as
last few minutes. But Texas, by that very act, demon-
an individual, what it means to me as one who is serving
strated the qualities of a champion, the qualities to come
Memorial Fund Requested
as President of the United States. I can only tell you
back when they were behind and then when they could
that in the Cabinet Room there are the pictures of three
have played it safe just to tie, they played to win.
By Director's Widow
men who I consider to be great Presidents; President
Eisenhower, President Woodrow Wilson, President Theo-
This allows me to tell a favorite anecdote of mine
Chester J. LaRoche, president of the National Foot-
in the world of sports. In another field, one of the great
ball Foundation and Hall of Fame, announced that a
dore Roosevelt. There were other great ones, but these
three in this century, I consider to be among the great
tennis players of all time, of course - the first really
Harvey J. Harman Memorial Scholar-Athlete fund was
Presidents.
big tennis player in terms of the big serve and the rest,
being created following Mrs. Harman's request that in
All of them had one thing in common. They were
in our time was Bill Tilden.
lieu of flowers that contributions be made to the Football
Foundation's Scholar-Athlete program.
BOB HARRON AND PALS - The late Robert (Bob) Har-
very different men; Eisenhower, the great general; Theo-
When he was coaching, after he completed his playing
Mr. Harman, the executive director of the National
ron (1) died at the age of 71 less than a week after the 1969
dore Roosevelt, the tremendous extrovert, explorer, writer,
years, a young player had won a match in a minor
Football Hall of Fame dinner after a lengthy illness. But, Bob
Football Foundation, and former head football coach
one of the most talented men of our time in so many
tournament and won it rather well. He came off the court
Harron was a part of the Centennial Dinner even though ill
and expected Tilden to say something to him in words of
at Rutgers and the University of Pennsylvania, died Dec.
at home. The citations of the Gold Medal winner, the Dis-
fields; Woodrow Wilson, probably the greatest scholar
17. Services were held in New Brunswick and he was
tinguished American award, the Scholar-Athletes, and the Hall
who has ever occupied the Presidency, a man with the
congratulation, and Tilden didn't.
of Famers were all written by the former Boston and New York
buried in Mercer, Pa.
biggest vocabulary of any President in our history in case
The player said, "What is the matter, I won it,
gifted sports writer. He is shown with journalistic pals Larry
Robinson (c) and Allison Danzig at a Hall of Fame reception
you want to put it down in your memory book.
didn't I?" Tilden said, "Yes, you won, but playing that
Fund Grows Fast
in 1968. Bob was assistant to the president of the NFF prior
way you will never be a champion, because you played
Contributions in Mr. Harman's memory may be
to his final illness.
Passion For Game
not to lose. You didn't play to win."
mailed to the National Football Foundation and Hall of
But each of them had a passion for foot-
Fame, 137 Church Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
ball. Woodrow Wilson, when he taught at
What America Needs
Nearly $2,000 had been donated in Harvey's memory
Wesleyan and used to talk about the spirit
That is what America needs today. What we need
as of February 1st
of football, and later on when he was Presi-
in the spirit of this country and the spirit of our young
The Football Foundation's Scholar-Athlete program
dent of Princeton, he insisted on scholarship,
people is not playing it safe always, not being afraid of
awards graduate fellowships to outstanding college foot-
but he recognized and tried to encourage
defeat - being ready to get into the battle and playing
ball seniors who also excel in the classroom and are
football. T. R. was dictating a speech one
to win; not with the idea of destroying or defeating or
campus leaders.
day, a very important one. He got a call
hurting anybody else, but with the idea of achieving ex-
Over 100 college seniors have won $500 NFF grad-
telling of two of his sons participating in a
cellence.
uate fellowships from funds received from Col. Earl
prep school game which they had won. He
Because Texas demonstrated that day that they were
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HALL OF FAMERS LISTEN - Three of the great players of
dropped the speech and ran shouting for joy
playing to win, they set an example worthy of being
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the past, Whitey Wistert of Michigan, Alex Wojciechowicz of
to his wife and said, "They won, they won."
Number One in the 100th year of college football.
pre-med Scholar-Athletes, as authorized by President
Fordham and Buddy Young of Illinois, seated at the special
Hall of Fame dais listen attentively to the 1969 Hall of Famers'
I remember President Eisenhower talk-
Thank you.
William Chapman.
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STANDING OVATION FOR THE PRESIDENT
A BUSY MAN ENJOYS A BANQUET - President Richard M. Nixon was a picture of health, happiness, and relaxation at the
end of Football's Centennial banquet in New York. Officers of the Football Foundation and members of the General MacArthur
Executive Committee gave the President a standing ovation following his heart-warming off-the-cuff talk on football. Some of the
men applauding include George Leisure, Col. Leonard Henry, Allison Danzig, Chet LaRoche, Vincent Draddy, Roger Blough, and
John Galbreath.
CENTENNIAL FOOTBALL PRESENTATION - Dr. Mason
Gross, president of Rutgers University, presents the Rutgers-
Princeton 1969 game football to the Football Foundation's
Centennial President Col. Edgar Garbisch at the Twelfth An-
nual Hall of Fame banquet in New York while master of
ceremonies Chris Schenkel and President Richard Nixon look on.
Reservations for the 1970 Hall of Fame Dinner in
PALS OF OLD - Elmer Bobst, who enjoyed his 85th birth-
day dinner at the White House in December, chats with the
New York, December 8, are now being accepted
man he gave a big boost at the right time, President Richard
at the Foundation's New York office (212)661-0534.
Nixon, while Roger Blough and Juan Trippe, a pair of earlier
Gold Medal winners, enjoy the conversation.
Foodball File
January 12, 1970
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Extensions of Remarks
E11271
law comes too late to help the thousands
Today as we pay tribute to the players,
the line close to the goal and there was a dis-
who have been crippled, maimed, and
I am glad that one of those who made the
pute about whether he went over and was
killed in past years. It will, however, make
Hall of Fame is a coach, Bud Wilkinson.
pushed back.
coal mining a much safer and healtheir
I pointed out in my acceptance address in
I wonder whether or not, with the replays
Miami that one of the men who influenced
we have on television, the game might have
job.
me most in my life was my coach and I think
turned out differently if we had had tele-
It is my fervent hope that the black
that could be true of many public men.
vision in 1925. I am not saying it would,
lung benefit provision will, in some small
My coach was an American Indian, a truly
Father Hesburgh. I have enough trouble with
way, ease the suffering and lift the weight
remarkable man and a great leader. I learned
Penn State. I don't want any with Notre
of loneliness inflicted on the miners and
more about life from him than I did about
Dame.
their widows by this dreaded disease.
football; but a little about football.
Then my memory goes on, just to share
One of the reasons he didn't put me in was
them with you, and interestingly enough 1
because I didn't know the plays. There was
remember performances by men who lost as
a good reason for that. It wasn't because I
wel as who won. That is rather natural, I am
wasn't smart enough. I knew the enemy's
sure you can understand.
PRESIDENT NIXON GIVES ADDRESS
plays. I played them all week long. Believe
The first Rose Bowl game I saw was be-
AT NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUN-
me, nobody in the Southern California Con-
tween one of the great Howard Jones teams
DATION AND HALL OF FAME DIN-
ference knew Occidental's or Pomona's plays
of the early '30s and Jock Sutherland's Pitt
NER
better than I did, because I was on that side.
teams. Pitt was overmanned. They had a fine
I learned a lot sitting by the coach on the
quarterback in Warren Heller; a good passer.
bench-learned about football and learned
And Howard Jones had a team that beat them
HON. GERALD R. FORD
about life.
35 to nothing.
OF MICHIGAN
Incidentally, since this is a night for con-
But my memories of that team was not of
fession, I want to tell you one thing about
the awesome power of Howard Jones' team
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Chief Newman. He played for Southern Cali-
moving down with the unbalanced single
Tuesday, December 23, 1969
fornia. He played on their first Rose Bowl
wing going down, down the field and scoring
team and that first Rose Bowl team beat Penn
again and again with that tremendous block-
Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker,
State in the only game Penn State ever
ing, but of two very gallant Pittsburgh ends,
for the edification and entertainment of
played in the Rose Bowl.
Stedani and Dailey.
our colleagues who follow football, as we
Now, because Governor Shafer is here and
For the first half, I remember they plowed
near the end of the game's 100th season,
because I had an uncle who taught at Penn
into that awesome USC interference and
I would like to insert at this point in the
State and had a very distinguished record
knocked it down time and time again and
RECORD the remarks of the President of
and because somebody suggested that some
held the score down. The game was lost, but
day I might want to visit the campus-after
the United States at the National Foot-
I remember right to the last they were in
'I have left the Presidency-I can only say
ball Foundation and Hall of Fame din-
there fighting and that spirit stayed with me
that they have a great football team.
as a memory and the years go on.
ner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York
As a matter of fact, I was going to suggest
I think of another game, Southern Cal and
on December 9, 1969:
that we have a super college bowl after the
Duke, 1938. I had attended Duke University
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
November or January 1 games and then I
for law school and I remember that Duke
STATES AT THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUN-
thought I was in deep enough already because
came there undefeated, untied, unscored
DATION AND HALL OF FAME DINNER
look what could happen: Southern Cali-
upon. The score was three to nothing going
fornia could beat Michigan and they would
Mr. Chairman and Mr. Toastmaster, Your
into the last few minutes of the game. So out
claim they were Number One; Notre Dame
Eminence Cardinal Cooke, all of the dis-
came a fourth string quarterback, not a third
might beat Texas and they would claim they
tinguished guests at the head tables and
string, Doyle Nave, and he threw passes
were One; and, of course, you never know
all of the distinguished award winners and
as they throw them today, one after another,
what would happen with Penn State and
all of those who are here on this very mo-
to Al Kreuger, an end from Antelope Valley,
Missouri. I understand they are pretty good.
mentous occasion:
Southern California scored. It was seven to
So I can only say this: I understand that
It would be momentous because of this
three.
Penn State certainly is among those that
organization meeting to honor the man that
I must say that I was terribly disappointed,
should be considered for One in the United
you have honored and I speak of others, of
of course, but the woman who was to be my
States of America.
course, than myself and it would be momen-
future wife went to Southern Cal and that
Now, could I share with you for a moment,
tous too because it is the 100th year of a
is how it all worked out. We met at that
in a somewhat serious vein, what football
very great game.
means to me? I think that is what the man
game.
I was trying to think of something that
The years go on and I am not going to
who receives this award, particularly one who
would appropriately describe how I feel in
really doesn't deserve it because of his foot-
bore you with more of my own recollections,
accepting this award. I would have to be
ball prowess, that is something he is ex-
except to give you a feel of what football
less than candid if I were not to say that
has meant to me as a spectator, and college
pected to do.
because of the offices I have held I have
First, without talking about those factors
football particularly
received many awards.
that are tremendously important that Archi-
I remember some Ohio State games. I re-
But I think Archibald MacLeish, in that
bald MacLeish touched on, the character, all
call going to Ohio State to a football game,
perfectly eloquent tribute to football, quot-
of the great spirit that comes into individuals
and until you have been to Columbus to see
ing Secretary of State Dean Acheson, put it
who are either participants in the game, par-
an Ohio State game-in fact, until I went
very well. He said, "The honors you don't
ticipate in it or watch it, I look back on
to Fayetteville, Arkansas, I thought the Co-
deserve are the ones you are most grateful
football and have many pleasant memories:
lumbus crowds were the most exciting. But
to receive."
I just enjoyed playing it, watching it, read-
in any event, that year, I think it was about
ing about it over the years.
1958, I went there with Senator John Bricker.
I simply want to set the record straight
with regard to my football qualifications.
Among all of the people who have been
Iowa had a great team. They were a favorite
honored tonight, let me just say a good word
over Ohio State.
This is a candid, open Administration. We
believe in telling the truth about football
about sports writers. After all, I must say
They led going into the last quarter. Woody
and everything.
that this is not an unselfish statement, most
Hayes-in those days, it was just three yards
I can only say that as far as this award
sports writers become political writers in the
and a cloud of dust. They didn't have the
end-"Scotty" Reston, Bob Considine, Bill
passers. But he had a great big fullback by
is concerned that it is certainly a small step
for the National Football Foundation and
Henry. So I am just planning for the future.
the name of White and he ran him, starting
a small step for football but it is a giant
But, in any event, thinking of sports writ-
at the 35 yard line of Ohio State, ten differ-
leap for a man who never even made the
ers for the moment, they have made football
ent times over the same hole in the Iowa
live before the days of television and even
line, going off the left side, until they scored,
team at Whittier.
now for many who never got to the games.
and they won the game 17 to 14.
I have looked around that wall. Whittier
My first recollection of big-time college
If you think enthusiastic crowds developed
is not up there I can assure you. I didn't
football was Ernie Nevers against Notre
in other places, you ought to see an Ohio
hear the Whittier song either a moment ago.
Dame in 1925. I see Ernie Nevers here and
State crowd when they beat anybody.
In fact only the coach from Loyola knows
I sat in the stands with Father Hesburgh
But in any event, on through the years,
where Whittier is. We used to play Loyola.
when Southern Cal played and lost to Notre
I come to more recent years, years that these
I got into a game once when we were so
Dame and I know the great spirit between
younger men here will remember and recall
far behind it didn't matter. I even got into
those two schools. But I remember that game.
with the same zest and enthusiasm, I am
one against Southern California once when
I remember the score.` I think it was 25 to
sure, that I do.
we were so far behind it didn't matter.
10 or four touchdowns to a touchdown and a
This year, 1969, certainly of all the hundred
Just to tell you a little about Whittier so
field goal and I remember that the sports
years of football none could be more exciting.
the record will be straight it is a school with
writers, Bill Henry of the L.A. Times, and
There were never SO many great teams, never
very high academic standing. We had a very
others, were writing about the game, wrote
so many Saturdays when the favorite could
remarkable coach.
about one play where Nevers went through
not be sure that he was going to come
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CONGRESSIONAL Extensions of Remarks
January 12, 1970
through, never so many times when a team
few minutes. But Texas, by that very act,
and America supports Israel because its ex-
that was behind came on to win or tie in
demonstrated the qualities of a champion,
ample offers long range hope to the Middle
the last quarter.
the qualities to come back when they were
East.
I am referring, of course, to Southern Cal,
behind and then when they could have
We recognize Israel's predicament; its
what they did to UCLA.
played it safe just to tie, they played to win.
enemies can afford to fight a war and lose,
If you talk to somebody from UCLA they
This allows me to tell a favorite anecdote
and come back to fight again. Israel cannot
say it should not have happened. So, watch
of mine in the world of sports. In another
afford to lose once. America knows that. And
out, Michigan, for SC, it could happen. I
field, one of the great tennis players of all
America is determined that Israel is here in
am not predicting now. I have had enough
time, of course-the first really big tennis
the family of nations to stay.
trouble with Penn State. I don't want any
player in terms of the big serve and the rest,
with Michigan. Before I get through I will
in our time-was Bill Tilden.
Since the Nixon administration took
only have friends in Texas and I didn't
When he was coaching, after he completed
office, U.S. policy toward Israel has, in
carry Texas. So let's not talk any further
his playing years, a young player had won a
fact, changed, attempting to force dan-
about that.
match in a minor tournament and won it
gerous compromise on Israel in an effort
But now, one serious moment. Archibald
rather well. He came off the court and ex-
to curry unwarranted favor with the
MacLeish did say what I wish I could have
pected Tilden to say something to him in
Arab States of the area. This signals a
written about what football means to this
words of congratulation, and Tilden didn't.
departure from the consistent commit-
country, what it means to me as an indi-
The player said, "What is the matter, I
vidual, what it means to me as one who
won it, didn't I? Tilden said, "Yes, you won,
ment to Israel expressed by four Presi-
is serving a President of the United States.
but playing that way you will never be a
dents of the United States-Truman,
I can only tell you that in the Cabinet Room
champion, because you played not to lose.
Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson.
there are the pictures of three men who I
You didn't play to win."
Following the 6-day war, in June of
consider to be great Presidents: President
That is what America needs today. What
1967, President Johnson stated, on June
Eisenhower, President Woodrow Wilson,
we need in the spirit of this country and
19, 1967, this country's "commitment to-
President Theodore Roosevelt. There were
the spirit of our young people is not playing
day-to a peace that is based on five
other great ones, but these three in this cen-
it safe always, not being afraid of defeat—
tury, I consider to be among the great Presi-
principles: first, the recognized right of
being ready to get into the battle and play-
dents.
ing to win; not with the idea of destroying
national life; second, justice for the ref-
All of them had one thing in common.
or defeating or hurting anybody else, but
ugees; third, innocent maritime passage;
They were very different men; Eisenhower,
with the idea of achieving excellence.
fourth, limits on the wasteful and de-
the great general; Theodore Roosevelt, the
Because Texas demonstrated that day that
structive arms race; and fifth, political
tremendous extrovert, explorer, writer, one
they were playing to win, they set an ex-
independence and territorial integrity
of the most talented men of our time in so
ample worthy of being Number One in the
for all."
many fields; Woodrow Wilson, probably the
100th year of college football.
greatest scholar who has ever occupied the
In the same speech, President John-
Thank you.
Presidency, a man with the biggest vocabu-
son made clear that the peace would have
lary of any President in our history in case
to be reached by the parties themselves.
you want to put it down in your memory
He said:
book.
EROSION OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR
Clearly, the parties to the conflict must be
But each of them had a passion for foot-
ISRAEL
the parties to the peace. Sooner or later, it
ball. Woodrow Wilson, when he taught at
is they who must make a settlement in the
Wessley and used to talk about the spirit
area.
of football, and later on when he was Presi-
HON. WILLIAM F. RYAN
dent of Princeton, he insisted on scholar-
President Johnson's speech of Septem-
ship, but he recognized and tried to en-
OF NEW YORK
ber 10, 1968, somewhat amplified his
courage football. T. R. was dictating a speech
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 19 speech by adding reference to the
one day, a very important one. He got a call
telling of two of his sons participating in a
Tuesday, December 23, 1969
Jerusalem question and to the issue of
borders. Jerusalem was recognized as "a
prep school game which they had won. He
Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, Secretary of
dropped the speech and ran shouting for
critical issue of any peace settlement,"
State Rogers held a news conference to-
joy to his wife and said, "They won, they
and the parties were urged "to stretch
day in which he discussed United States-
won."
their imaginations so that their interests,
Israeli relations. He stated:
I remember President Eisenhower talking
and all the world's interests in Jerusalem
to me after his heart attack. He said one
I can understand why Israel is concerned,
can be taken into account in any final
of the things he hated to give up was that
and why they don't necessarily agree with
settlement." In discussing the question
the doctor said he should not listen to those
everything we do. But we have to conduct
football games because he got too excited
our foreign policy in a way that we think is
of borders, the President said:
and became too involved.
best for our national interests.
We are not the ones to say where other na-
tions should draw lines between them that
What does this mean, this common inter-
I cannot fault the Secretary on his
est in football of Presidents, of leaders, of
will assure each the greatest security. It is
people generally? It means a competitive
basic premise-we must be guided by our
clear, however, that a return to the situation
spirit. It means, also, to me, the ability and
national interests. But its practice, so far
of June 4, 1967, will not bring peace. There
the determination to be able to lose and
as the Mideast is concerned is, in my
must be secure and there must be recognized
then come back and try again, to sit on the
view, seriously in error. This administra-
borders.
bench and then come back. It means ba-
tion's posture toward Israel is under-
In also discussing the refugee problem,
sically the character, the drive, the pride.
mining the possibilities of a viable peace
President Johnson urged Israel and her
the teamwork, the feeling of being in a cause
being achieved between Israel and the
bigger than yourself.
Arab neighbors to "participate directly
Arab States pledged to destroy her. And
All of these great factors are essential if
and wholeheartedly in a massive program
a Nation is to maintain character and great-
this posture is thereby seriously endan-
to assure these people a better and a
ness for that Nation. So, on the 100th year
gering the viability-even existence-
more table future."
of football, as we approach the 200th year
of Israel.
Thus, until January 20 of 1969, the
of the United States, remember that our
Yet it is essential to our national inter-
United States was committed to the par-
great assets are not our military strength or
est that Israel survives and thrives, just
our economic wealth, but the character of
ties themselves making the peace. It
as a stable peace in the Mideast is essen-
our young people and I am glad that Amer-
urged the general principles on which
ica's young people produce the kind of men
tial. In fact, there cannot be one without
such a peace should be based, and consid-
that we have in American football today.
the other. The President himself has said
erations-such as Jerusalem-which
I close on a note that will tell you why I
as much. On September 8, 1968, then
should be taken to account. It supported
think Texas deserved to be Number One. It
candidate Richard Nixon stated:
border changes which would achieve se-
was not because they scored the second
The United States has a firm and unwaver-
curity. It opposed unilateral withdrawal
touchdown, but it was because after the
ing commitment to the national existence
by Israel.
first touchdown when they were ahead (be-
of Israel, repeated by four Presidents, and
hind) 14 to 0, the coach sent in a play. They
after Inauguration Day next year, it will be
The changes with the inauguration of
executed the play and they went for two.
repeated by another President.
the Nixon administration. First, four
When they went for two and the score was
America supports Israel because we believe
power talks became a cornerstone of U.S.
18 (8) to 14, they moved the momentum in
in the self-determination of nations; America
strategy. And by his March 4 news con-
their direction. They were not sure to win
supports Israel because we oppose aggression
ference, President Nixon expanded the
because Arkansas still had a lot of fight left
in every form; America supports Israel be-
notion of these talks to include the idea
and I remember the great drive in those last
cause it is threatened by Soviet imperialism;
of four power guarantees:
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Center for Leadership
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Date
1972
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The National Football Foundation seeks to not only honor the great players and
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
coaches in the history of College Football but to also inspire our nation's youth to compete
INVOCATION
on the athletic fields and in the classroom and to assume leadership roles on the high school
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
and college campuses today.
Chris Schenkel
INTRODUCTION OF MEMBERS OF FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
The National Football Foundation honors men who honor the game, men who have
PRESENTATION OF FOUNDATION'S DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN AWARD
revealed a love of country, concern for their fellow man and the nation's youth-men who
To Dr. Jerome H. "Brud" Holland By
get involved in community affairs, men who give a Damn about today's problems and
Richard W. Kazmaier, Jr., Awards Chairman
tomorrow's leadership.
DR. HOLLAND'S ACCEPTANCE
PRESIDENT'S REPORT
Leadership training to man our institutions depends not only on the lessons taught
Hon. George L. Murphy, President
by man's past, learned in the classroom, but in competition, man against man on the
ENTERTAINMENT
campus. We learn the most important thing of all-of man himself; whom to trust, who is
INDUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS OF FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
full of talk, how to follow as well as to lead, how to subordinate one's own ends to a common
Fred Russell, Honors Court and
objective. These are the disciplines of leadership.
Col. Edgar W. Garbisch, Vice-Chairman
MALCOLM PRATT "MAC" ALDRICH
WILLIAM H. "BILL" MORTON
In a broad but very significant sense The National Football Foundation is a nationwide
Yale University, 1919-1922
Dartmouth, 1929-1931
ANGELO BORTOLO BERTELLI
CHARLES CHRISTOPHER O'ROURKE
educational organization. It enlists the ex-player, educator, athletic director and coach, the
Notre Dame, 1940-1943
Boston College, 1937-1940
football official, writer and commentator, and the football fan in the service of the American
ROBERT "BOB" FENIMORE
*BRUCE PHILIP "BOO" SMITH
youth. It strives to promote football as an integral and wholesome part of our educational
Oklahoma State, 1943-1946
University of Minnesota, 1938-1941
processes; to inculcate the ideals of sportsmanship into the mind of the spectator as well as
ROBERT ANTHONY "BONES" HAMILTON
JOSEPH LEE STYDAHAR
Stanford, 1932-1935
West Virginia University, 1932-1935
that of the player; and to encourage the most beneficial direction and playing of the game
MORTON ARMOR "DEVIL MAY" KAER
*BOWDEN WYATT
at schools and colleges throughout the country.
University of So. California, 1923-1926
University of Tennessee, 1935-1938
COACH
To achieve its aims, the Foundation seeks to establish the true concept of football and
LAWRENCE "BUCK" TIMOTHY SHAW
to gain recognition of the significant role it plays in the preservation and advancement of
N.C. State, Nevada, Santa Clara, California,
Air Force Academy (1924-1957)
our way of life. It endeavors to attain these goals by disseminating relevant information
RESPONSE
through its own publications and the other voices that reach the public, by granting awards
Malcolm Aldrich
and fellowships for postgraduate study to college seniors who have been outstanding in
PRESENTATION OF SCHOLAR-ATHLETE TROPHIES
football ability, academic achievement and campus leadership during their undergraduate
AND COL. BLAIK MEDICAL ECONOMIC GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
Dr. Alexander Heard, Chancellor, Vanderbilt
years, and by honoring in the Football Hall of Fame those college players and coaches whose
RESPONSE
deeds and lives during and after their playing and coaching days have been exemplary
PRESENTATION OF THE FOUNDATION'S GOLD MEDAL AWARD
and inspiring.
Vincent dePaul Draddy, Chairman
ACCEPTANCE
The Foundation, in accomplishing its purposes, serves not only the American youth
HON. GERALD R. FORD
U.S. Congressman (Michigan)
but the nation as well. For school and college football, conducted and played in the proper
BENEDICTION
way, teaches lessons which, together with those taught in the classroom, help mold young
ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER COMMITTEE
Americans sound in heart, mind and body. Such young men are best fitted to mature as
Sidney A. Adger
Clinton E. Frank
Richard W. Kazmaier, Jr.
the kind of leaders needed to assure the supremacy of the United States of tomorrow.
William I. Chapman
Leonard D. Henry
I. Robert Kriendler
William Corbus
William I. Spencer
William H. Morton, Chairman
VINCENT DEPAUL DRADDY, Chairman
*deceased
The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
VINCENT DEPAUL DRADDY, Chairman of Board
COL. EDGAR W. GARBISCH, Vice Chairman
MILLER MOORE, Treasurer
WILLIAM H. GEYER, Vice Chairman
RICHARD MOORE, Asst. Treasurer
HON. GEORGE L. MURPHY, President
ASA S. BUSHNELL, Secretary
FOREST EVASHEVSKI, Vice President
JAMES L. McDowell, JR., Executive Director
ROBERT HALL, Vice President
C. ROBERT PAUL, JR., Asst. to Chairman
THOMAS J. HAMILTON, Vice President
STUART D. LUDLUM, Asst. Secretary
CHESTER J. LAROCHE, Chairman, Center for Leadership
VICE PRESIDENTS AT LARGE
East - RICHARD W. KAZMAIER, JR.
South - WILLIS M. TATE
West CLINTON E. FRANK
Coast - ROBERT O. REYNOLDS
At Large - CHARLES B. (BUD) WILKINSON
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Alvin Adams
James Growney
Joseph O'Neill
Sidney Adger
Leonard D. Henry
Frank Pace, Jr.
Vernon R. Alden
Walter Hoving
Dr. Earl Ramer
Paul Bryant
Col. I. Robert Kriendler
Carl Ray
Walter Byers
George Leisure, Sr.
Eddie Robinson
George Champion
Barry T. Leithead
Fred Russell
William Chapman
George H. Love
Dr. Marvin A. Stevens
General Lucius D. Clay
Jack Mohr
Joseph D. Tooker, Jr.
Cecil Coleman
William H. Morton
Charles W. Tucker, Jr.
Allison Danzig
Bill Murray
Albert Twitchell
Jack Farcasin
Robert (Scotty) Whitelaw
THE GENERAL MAcARTHUR NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
ROGER M. BLOUGH, Chairman Emeritus
JOHN W. GALBREATH, AND CHESTER J. LAROCHE, Chairmen
Thomas B. Adams
F. Peavey Heffelfinger
Thomas B. McCabe
Vernon Alden
Harold H. Helm
David Mahoney
Malcolm Aldrich
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh
Edmund C. Monell
James W. Aston
H. Leslie Hoffman
Thomas W. Moore
Everett Bacon
Clifford F. Hood
William H. Morton
Paul Gregory Benedum
Walter Hoving
Fred Mosel
Rear Adm. John J. Bergen
Gilbert W. Humphrey
Spencer Mosley
Charles H. Brower
Alfred Hunt
James J. Nance
Alexander Calder, Jr.
Robert A. Jacobs
Thomas S. Nichols
George Champion
Delaney Kiphuth
Kenneth O'Donnell
Norman Chandler
Fred P. Kirby
Joseph O'Neill
Gen. Lucius D. Clay
I. Robert Kriendler
Frank Pace, Jr.
James A. Farley
Arthur S. Lane
Robert Odell Reynolds
Hon. Gerald R. Ford, Jr.
Hon. Richard C. Lee
Fred Russell
Winston E. Forrest, Jr.
Barry T. Leithead
C. R. Smith
William J. Gilbane
George H. Love
Robert T. Stevens
J. Peter Grace
Archibald MacLeish
George Raymond Vila
Boone Gross
Charles B. Wilkinson
HONORARY CHAIRMEN (PREVIOUS GOLD MEDAL WINNERS)
Col. Earl H. Blaik
Chester J. LaRoche
Ronald W. Reagan
Adm. Thomas J. Hamilton
Donold B. Lourie
Juan T. Trippe
Dr. Frederick L. Hovde
Richard M. Nixon
Byron R. White
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HERBERT HOOVER
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CHAPTER I
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE
AWARDS
THE
NATIONAL
FOOTBALL
FOUNDATION
AND HALL
OF FAME
THIS BOOKLET
IS DESIGNED
TO EXPLAIN
what the Board of Directors and the
Executive Committee of your Foun-
dation believe to be the greatest func-
tion that any chapter can perform for
the game of American amateur foot-
ball and for American youth.
Here is the plan for making annual
Scholar-Athlete awards to your scho-
lastic athlete, or athletes, who best
exemplify academic achievement,
leadership in scholastic activities and
football ability.
The National Football Foundation
believes that there can be no more
effective dedication to the benefit of
our great American game than to rec-
ognize, early in his career, the young
football player and encourage him to
assess the proper values of the game
in his educational career.
THE AWARDS COMMITTEE, NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION
THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION
AND HALL OF FAME
VINCENT DEPAUL DRADDY, Chairman
FOREST EVASHEVSKI, Vice President
MILLER MOORE, Treasurer
HON. GEORGE L. MURPHY, President
ROBERT A. HALL, Vice President
ASA S. BUSHNELL, Secretary
COL. EDGAR W. GARBISCH, Vice Chairman
THOMAS J. HAMILTON, Vice President
JAMES L. McDowell, JR., Executive Director
WILLIAM H. GEYER, JR., Vice Chairman
C. ROBERT PAUL, JR., Assistant to Chairman
JOHN GALBREATH, CHESTER J. LAROCHE, Co-Chairmen General MacArthur Advisory Board
ROGER M. BLOUGH, Chairman Emeritus
NEW YORK OFFICE
Suite 1604
II East 44th Street
August 8, 1972
New York, New York 10017
(212) 661-0534
TO:
The Executive Committee
General MacArthur Advisory Committee
Vice Presidents at Large
Board of Directors
East
RICHARD W. KAZMAIER, JR.
Chapter Presidents
South
WILLIS M. TATE
National Football Foundation Council
West
CLINTON E. FRANK
Coast
ROBERT ODELL REYNOLDS
At Large CHARLES B. (BUD) WILKINSON
FROM: Jimmie McDowell, Executive Director
Chairman Vincent dePaul Draddy recently announced
Board of Directors
the purchase of a great building at 17 East 80th
ALVIN P. ADAMS
SIDNEY A. ADGER, SR.
Street, in New York to be the new headquarters
VERNON R. ALDEN
for the National Football Foundation and to house
WALTER BYERS
the College Football Hall of Fame. The move
GEORGE CHAMPION
GENERAL LUCIUS D. CLAY
was made, as Chairman Draddy stated, because,
ALLISON DANZIG
"Building costs are continually escalating and
EARLE EDWARDS
the Foundation's Executive Committee, recognizing
JAMES GROWNEY
the Nation's changing economic and social cond-
DR. JIM HAMILTON
COL. LEONARD D. HENRY
itions, decided to change the Foundations
WALTER HOVING
priorities and will concentrate on our educational
JAMES (BUD) JACK
and leadership programs on behalf of the youth
I. ROBERT KRIENDLER
GEORGE S. LEISURE
of America."
BARRY T. LEITHEAD
GEORGE H. LOVE
Enclosed is a copy of our up-dated Scholar-Athlete
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
JACK MOHR
Brochure, which is the backbone of the National
EDMUND MONELL
Football Foundation's Chapter program. In over
WILLIAM H. MORTON
100 cities, coast-to-coast, chapters have the
WILLIAM D. MURRAY
JOSEPH O'NEILL
opportunity of recognizing outstanding school
FRANK PACE, JR.
boys, who excel in the classroom as well as
DR. EARL RAMER
on the playing field, - the true campus leaders.
CARL RAY
FRED RUSSELL
Over 500 high school seniors are saluted annually.
DR. MARVIN A. STEVENS
Since the program's inception, more than 5,000
JOSEPH D. TOOKER, JR.
boys, chosen from nominees from 25,000 schools,
CHARLES W. TUCKER, JR.
ALBERT TWITCHELL
have been saluted at banquets attended by the
outstanding civic leaders in the community.
Center for Leadership
CHESTER J. LAROCHE,
Chairman
STUART D. LUDLUM,
Assistant to Chairman
Page 2
August 8, 1972
I am sure you will also be interested to know that we
already have over 800 reservations for the Foundation's
15th Annual Football Hall of Fame Dinner in New York on
December 5th. This Waldorf Astoria Dinner honors our
National Scholar-Athletes. If you haven't made your
reservations, you should do so now.
We need your continued support, financially and in other
ways, to assure the Foundation's continued success.
Our Hall of Fame Building and Endowment Fund Program
continues through our chapters, the nation's football
playing colleges, and our Special Gifts Campaign.
Your support in the past has meant much to all of us who
realize how much the game means to us individually and to
the nation in general.
JMcD/sg
FOREWORD
It is the belief of the National
college sport - with sloppy edu-
Football Foundation that the
cational practices, with athletic
awards of our chapters to the high
ability purchased at the expense
school football players of the
of the finer values in life.
country join us all together in
It is the job of the NCAA and
what is our most important single
NAIA to make the rules govern-
national activity.
ing conduct of the game. But the
Football trains boys in courage,
rules in America need a broad
competition, sportsmanship -
basis of public support, which is
builds physical and moral fiber in
achieved largely through infor-
an age of luxury and softness.
mation. This is our job. Excessive
Looked at from a broad perspec-
loyalty by alumni to any one col-
tive it is a national force, unique
lege in such things as recruitment
to America, the like of which the
practices can help to destroy the
world has never seen, teaching
very fabric of the game. Helping
qualities of heart and spirit with-
any one football team at the ex-
out which brains would be rud-
pense of the game itself is folly.
derless.
It is for these reasons we ask
you to make these awards effec-
We feel, however, that the
tive, to remind ALL of our people
spirit of competitive sport should
that the purpose of college foot-
be in its proper place in the
ball is to train our youth for life.
scheme of education. We want to
We believe the game should be
keep the amateur spirit dominant,
conducted with as much honor
to keep football a game, not a
business.
off the field as it is now played
and officiated on the field. These
We are concerned with the
awards dramatize our stand. They
advance of professionalism in
come to life only through you.
VINCENT DEPAUL DRADDY
CHESTER J. LAROCHE
VINCENT DEPAUL DRADDY
THE HONORABLE GEORGE L. MURPHY
retired Chairman, now Chairman of the
member of the Board of the
President of the
National Football Foundation's
National Football Foundation
National Football Foundation,
Chairman of the Board
Center for Leadership
since 1958, now its Chairman
former Senator from California
HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN XXIII
"It is not the strength of one's muscles, not the quick reflexes or the victories easily
attained, that constitute ability and the attractiveness of sport. It is rather the assured
domain over one's faculties. There are, among others, loyalties that exclude taking
refuge in subterfuges docility and obedience to the wise commands of the director in
charge of the training of the team; the spirit of self-renunciation where one is to fade
into the background in order that the interests of the team may thereby be furthered;
fidelity to obligations undertaken; modesty in victory; sereneness in adverse fortune;
patience toward spectators who are not always moderate if the competitive sport is
bound up with financial interests. The crowds in the stadia deplore the fact when teams
in a contest do not play with their hearts; in general, whenever there is a question of
human activity, the point of arrival must always be the psychic; in other words, spirit must
predominate over technique."
ARCHIBALD MacLEISH
DR. HENRY C. LINK
Pulitzer Poetry Prize Winner
author of "Return to Religion"
"I think I learned more on
"Instruction on the Ameri-
the two Yale football teams
can playing field for a time
I played on than I have before
filled up a vacuum created by
or since about certain very
lack of leadership in religion.
fundamental and important
Many lessons in self-control,
matters. Without more
sacrifice, teamwork, idealism,
attention to things of the
yes — in MORALITY - were
mind and spirit, there can be
learned
taught by the high
no human understanding;
school, preparatory school
and that, without such
and college coaches. There
understanding, the techno-
has never been anything like
logical information which
this phenomenon, and it
man has gathered is mean-
reaches its fullest expression
ingless."
in football
a game which
has set in some measure the
competitive pattern of this
nation."
PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
"In football, in business, in the trades and the professions, the
normal urge to excel provides one of the most hopeful assurances that
our kind of society will continue to advance and prosper. Morale
the will to win, the fighting heart
are the honored hallmarks of the
football coach and player. This morale, this will, this heart
we need
not only in athletic teams as individuals, but collectively."
GENERAL OF THE ARMY DOUGLAS MacARTHUR
"The game has become a symbol of our country's best qualities;
courage, stamina, coordinated efficiency. Many believe in these
cynical days of doubt and indecision that through this sport we can
best keep alive the spirit of reality and enterprise which has made
us great. Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that upon
other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory."
National Scholar-Athlete Rex Kern (10) of Ohio State
National Scholar-Athlete Cosmo lacavazzi (32) of Princeton
WHAT
Football is one of the great build-
Believing in the value of foot-
ers of men. It does more for the
ball, the National Football Foun-
FOOTBALL
boy of school age than any other
dation, which brings together all
DOES FOR
sport. It is not only, as indicated
of the organized groups that play,
by former President Whitney
coach, administer and report foot-
THE BOY
Griswold of Yale, a vital part of
ball, seeks to establish the true
education as competitive recrea-
concept of the game as an ama-
tion and exercise, but it is, like
teur sport, and to gain recogni-
other organized sports, a chal-
tion of the important role it plays
lenge to the spirit, a test of mettle,
in the preservation and advance-
a way to educate youth to go far
ment of our ways of life. Its pur-
the most significant method of
beyond the resources that are on
poses are to promote the game as
fulfilling our purposes at the high
the surface.
an integral and wholesome part
school level is through the local
For the boy, football builds
of our educational process; to
chapter. Through the chapter, we
stamina, courage, competitive
encourage the beneficial direction
reach the principals, the parents,
fiber, self-reliance, teamwork,
and playing of the game; to pro-
the school coaches and players -
sportsmanship, and imbues him
vide proper incentives and ideals
the boys themselves. It is for this
with the many qualities which
for American youth, and sports-
reason that the granting of awards
help to build our manhood to
manship for the individual player.
to the high school Scholar-
keep our country strong and our
The Foundation uses a number
Athlete is the valuable function of
competitive spirit vibrant.
of ways to achieve its goals, but
every chapter.
THE ROLE OF
WHY
THE CHAPTER
SCHOLAR-ATHLETES
IN AWARDS
MUST BE
The experience of the Football
RECOGNIZED
Foundation at its national level
has proved beyond a doubt that
educators and leaders of men
have given unanimous approval to
the necessity for recognizing and
honoring those whose deeds and
lives during their playing days
have been exemplary and inspir-
ing.
Educators, coaches, and lead-
that time in the life of a young
ers agree, however, that the plan
man. Once he has progressed
must start earlier. The boy must
beyond that stage, once he has
learn before he gets to college the
learned, all too late, that he may
proper value of football as a com-
have sacrificed his chance in life
petitive sport, its value and place
for a real education because he
in the educational plan. The col-
has been offered and has accepted
lege level, which is the only one
an easy chance to capitalize on
that the Foundation can handle
athletic skill, then it is also too
as a national effort, is by the same
late for us to help.
token almost impossible to judge
The strongest, finest, and most
from the chapter's viewpoint. The
helpful job that the chapter can
chapter is the Foundation's direct
do is to bring forcibly to the atten-
personalized contact with the
tion of the boy, his family, his
thousands of outstanding youths
coach and to over-zealous alumni,
who must carry the ball in the
the proper sense of values and re-
The National Awards Commit-
The chapter thus becomes the
years to come, in school, after
sponsibilities which will be of
tee therefore feels that a chapter
Foundation's best means of rec-
school.
positive use to him in later life.
may not in justice make an award
ognizing the individual scholastic
It is obvious, therefore, that the
The serious, dignified and careful
at the college level. More impor-
football player, a work which is of
chapter must build the strength
attention to the rewarding of stu-
tant, however, is the necessity of
the essence of the Foundation's
of American football at the school
dent leaders in both studies and
the chapter award at the school
means of reaching the player at
level. Educational and develop-
athletics is of paramount impor-
level, where the most good can be
the vital period of his develop-
ment values can be taught only at
tance.
obtained in the long run.
ment.
HOW A
CHAPTER
MAKES
AWARDS
College Scholar-Athletes
High School Scholar-Athletes
One of the first acts of a new
Some of the methods of obtain-
QUALIFICATIONS
chapter should be the organiza-
ing information on the Scholar-
FOR THE
hunter, a boy with courage, per-
tion of a strong Awards Commit-
Athletes are:
sistance, sportsmanship, and an
tee. This committee can consist
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE
1. Recommendations from in-
overall feeling for the game of
of any number, depending upon
formed sources.
AWARD
football, with proper respect for
the size of the chapter, but cer-
his coaches, teammates, oppo-
tainly not less than five or six, and
2. Recommendations from school
nents, and his school.
possibly as many as 12 or 15. Its
football coaches, principals,
It is possible, even probable, that
So far as scholarship is con-
composition will vary depending
athletic advisers, sports writ-
some chapters may wish to spec-
cerned, he need not be a "greasy
upon the character and enthusi-
ers, sportscasters, or others in
ify their own qualifications for the
grind" or even a straight "Grade
asm of the men available. Gen-
a position to have knowledge.
Scholar-Athlete Award, although
A" scholar. But he should be stu-
erally, however, the committee
3. Specific recommendations of
erally the Awards Committee will
it is not likely that the original
dious, persevering, dedicated, and
should be strong in community,
one candidate from each
be faced with three or five out-
specifications, here given, will be
have a proper knowledge of what
altered much.
business and professional leaders
school, backed up by data on
standing candidates. Some chap-
study means to the value of edu-
interested in their schools as
performance, marks and other
ters honor one from each school
The qualifications are three in
cation. He should be a better than
builders of future citizens. It
number:
qualities to be submitted by
in the area, and then select the
average student, interested in his
should also include athletic ad-
the principal or someone else
top Scholar-Athlete from this
1. Outstanding academic appli-
work, and without serious subject
visers and sports writers.
high in authority.
group. More often than not, the
cation and performance.
weaknesses. He will be a boy who
The Awards Committee should
leaders will stand out and their
select the Scholar-Athletes after
4. Preparation and distribution
2. Superior school leadership and
is appreciated by his teachers.
considering the credentials of the
of a questionnaire which seeks
selections will not present too
citizenship.
Leadership may be more diffi-
to find out the data required.
many difficulties.
cult to measure. He should have
nominees. It should also select
The timing of selection is again
3. Superior football performance.
an interest in many of the aspects
the recipients of the Chapter's
The rating of information is a
a matter for the chapter. The time
The boy need not necessarily
of school life, not just football and
Distinguished American Award
matter for the committee. Many
of presentation can vary. Some
be the finest football player in the
studies. He need not be the presi-
and the Contribution to Amateur
will go so far as to draw up a point
chapters have their award ban-
territory, but he should certainly
dent of his class, or the leader of
Football Award. These will be
system in the attempt to obtain
quets during the winter, imme-
be an exceptional one, a boy who
his fraternity, or the man with the
men who have carried the lessons
exact values. Often it will not be
diately after the season is over.
inspires younger players to seek
highest marks or most letters, but
learned on the playing field into
necessary to go to that extent,
Some chapters prefer to wait until
to achieve excellence when their
he definitely should be popular,
a lifetime of service to the com-
since primary values will appear
late winter, spring or summer.
time comes to play varsity foot-
respected, and a boy whose atti-
munity and citizens who have
evident.
This is a chapter decision. Many
ball and earn similar recognition.
tudes and actions are taken as an
maintained a lifetime of devotion
There is no standard method of
chapters at such a dinner may
He should obviously be a team
example by others who have
to the game.
determining final selection. Gen-
well have other awards to make.
player, not an individual glory
participated.
A CERTIFICATE FOR THE SCHOLAR-ATHLETE
The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
Scholar-Athlete Amard
THE
of the
National Football Foundation
AWARD
hereby grants
ITSELF
For the purpose of standardizing
the basic conditions of an award,
WHAT
the National Football Foundation
This certificate testifying that he has been
recommends that it take the fol-
voted outstanding in Football Performance,
IT IS
Academic Achievement and School Leadership
lowing form:
in the territory of the chapter
1. A certificate to be given the
Scholar-Athlete.
DATE
PRESIDENT
2. A plaque to be given hisschool.
To this end, the Foundation
has designed and has available a
beautiful and dignified certificate,
suitable for framing (shown on
the next page).
A PLAQUE FOR HIS SCHOOL
Secondly, the Foundation also
makes available a distinctive
plaque, dignified and permanent
in character, which any school
will be proud to display in its of-
fices, gymnasium or trophy room
to indicate the honor accorded
one of its students.
The certificate and plaque have
NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION
been designed for the Foundation
by the country's largest and best
MILVAUREE SHA PTER
known designer of school, college
and athletic trophies. They may
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE
be obtained through the Founda-
AWARD
tion. Certificates and plaques
For the Scholastic Player who was voted
may, of course, be independently
outstanding in Football Performance,
Academic Achievement and,
designed and produced by a
School Leadership
chapter, although the cost will
PRESENTED TO
normally be somewhat higher.
JOHN WILLIAM PARKER
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
1960
THE
On the night of December 1,
from each of the sections of the
1959, for the first time in the his-
country. Their awards stated that
FIRST
tory of American sports, a dedi-
they were "being honored for
NATIONAL
cated group of men made a series
achievements in the classroom
of awards to college seniors which
and on the campus as well as on
COLLEGE
recognized the value of not ath-
the football field." Each one re-
letic prowess alone, but the com-
ceived a silver bowl and its in-
SCHOLAR-
bined talents of their athletic
scription stated that it went to the
ability, their scholarly dedication,
college senior in his section who is
ATHLETE
and their leadership and example
outstanding in academic achieve-
AWARDS
to fellow students.
ment, college leadership, and
Educational authorities from
football performance.
all over the land expressed their
An added award of outstanding
appreciation that athletic ability
significance was made to the
was rewarded for having its true
young men in this particular case.
Colonel Earl H. Blaik donated
and proper place in the values of
education and development of
from his syndicated newspaper
football articles the sum of $4,000,
the American young man. The
of which $500 went to each of the
awards signified recognition of
the "whole man" in his early
eight, to be used for graduate
study. Those first awardees who
stages-not just a scholar, not just
an athlete, but a man who devel-
went to a graduate school for the
oped the all-around qualities
study of their choice, be it law,
which would make him a real
medicine, chemistry, or whatever
leader in later life.
else, were the recipients of "Red"
Blaik's generous gift. Since then,
At that Second Annual NFF
over 100 college seniors have been
Awards Dinner, eight scholar-
saluted at the Foundation's New
athletes were so rewarded, one
York dinner at the Waldorf.
THE
OFFICERS OF THE
NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION
NATIONAL
Vincent dePaul Draddy, Chairman*
FOOTBALL
Hon. George L. Murphy, President*
FOUNDATION,
Col. Edgar W. Garbisch, Vice Chairman*
William H. Geyer, Jr., Vice Chairman*
HALL
Forest Evashevski, Vice President
OF
Robert A. Hall, Vice President*
Thomas J. Hamilton, Vice President
FAME,
Miller Moore, Treasurer
AND
Asa S. Bushnell, Secretary
James L. McDowell, Jr., Executive Director
CENTER
C. Robert Paul, Jr., Assistant to Chairman
FOR
*Member Executive Committee
LEADERSHIP
Additional Executive Committee Members
Alvin P. Adams
Leonard D. Henry
I. Robert Kriendler
Vice Presidents at Large
East- Richard W. Kazmaier, Jr.
South- Willis M. Tate
West - Clinton E. Frank
Dinner Committee
Coast - Robert Odell Reynolds
William H. Morton, Chairman
At Large- Charles B. (Bud) Wilkinson
Sidney A. Adger, Sr.
Awards Committee
William I. Chapman
William Corbus
Richard W. Kazmaier, Jr., Chairman
Clinton E. Frank
Asa Bushnell
Leonard D. Henry
Allison Danzig
Richard W. Kazmaier, Jr.
Leonard D. Henry
I. Robert Kriendler
William L. Chapman
William I. Spencer
Earl H. Blaik