Two-time Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year Rueben Mayes will be honored by Washington State this Saturday, as the Cougars host Pac-10 rival Oregon in Pullman. The game begins at 3:15 p.m. PT and will be televised on FSN Northwest. NFF Chief Operating Officer Matthew Sign will attend the presentation.By career's end, Mayes set 15 school records, including single-season (1,632) and career rushing yards (3,519), rushing touchdowns (23), rushing average (5.53) and 100-yard games (13). He also established an NCAA Division I single-game record with a 357-yard rushing performance against Oregon in 1984. The North Battleford, Saskatchewan, native was the first Cougar in history to boast two 1,000-yard rushing seasons. He currently serves as the Senior Director of Development at WSU.
Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Voting
Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Voting
Fan voting officially began last Wednesday for the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award, which features unique polling of fans online at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eLxVCnAKBnyjHHeIkGywxFRadzewBzn6gllbPuzSYHkJv_-67rqz0dz_ycrBF2IpUCgEkkUfHslZXa0yFxK1AxZiurTw7QHdW1nOn8SOFru00JvSCvaiBg==.Nearly one million fans voted in 2007, and the solid national response allowed Liberty Mutual to enlist NFF chairman and College Football Hall of Famer Archie Manning and ESPN broadcaster Kirk Herbstreit to promote the spirit of the award. The Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year winners are honored in an exhibit at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind. On Dec. 9, the finalists will be announced at the NFF Hall of Fame press conference in New York City, prior to the Foundation's acclaimed Annual Awards Dinner. The 2008 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award recipients will be announced on ESPN during halftime of the Music City Bowl on Dec. 31.
NFF News
Actors Dennis Quaid and Rob Brown (who played football at Amherst, Mass.) attended the College Football Hall of Fame's VIP, invitation-only screening of Universal Pictures "The Express" - the life story of the late Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis last Thursday in South Bend. They joined a contingent of invited guests and media for a red carpet screening of the film in the Hall's Stadium Theater. The film, which opens in theaters October 10, is based on the true story of the extraordinary life of the College Football Hall of Famer Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. The NFF Southern Arizona Chapter will host a luncheon on Oct. 3 honoring College Football Hall of Famer Ricky Hunley (Arizona).NFF National Scholar-Athlete Alumni Association
Newest member of the NFF's National Scholar-Athlete Alumni Association: Dr. Kevin R. Fox (Princeton).To become a member of the National Scholar-Athlete Alumni Association, please contact NFF Director of Special Projects Hillary Jeffries at 800.486.1865 or via email at hjeffries@footballfoundation.com.
Two-Minute Drill
Sen. John McCain attended Navy's contest with Rutgers last Saturday as part of the 50-year 
reunion of the Naval Academy class of 1958, while legendary boxer Muhammad Ali attended the Louisville-Kansas State game last Wednesday... College Football Hall of Famer Billy Ray Smith, Jr. served as Arkansas' honorary captain for the Razorbacks' game against Alabama last weekend... Notre Dame and Michigan State have solidified their annual football series contractually through 2025... West Virginia's Pat White moved into third place in NCAA history in quarterback rushing yards last Saturday... Boise State was named the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National Team of the Week... The Purdue athletics department, along with Boiler Green Initiative (BGI) and Purdue Refuse and Recycling, are asking football fans to boost their recycling efforts at Ross-Ade Stadium this year by placing 75 recycling containers in and around Ross- Ade Stadium for all seven home football games this season. The university will provide recycling bags, as well as trash bags to many lots for the pregame activities as well... The American Red Cross worked with Connecticut and Baylor fans to collect donations for recent hurricane victims before and during last week's ESPN telecast... Cincinnati student-athletes assisted and donated to the National Assistance League's Operation School Bell, to help 1,500 kids from 23 local schools with school clothing... Tennessee Athletics continues with its Sept. 18-28 East Tennessee Second Harvest food and cash donations' drive to aid underserved families in the region... Northwestern hosted its "Take a Kid to the Game" promotion for last week's contest with Ohio, as one child was admitted free with each adult ticket... College Football Hall of Famer George Taliaferro (Indiana) will address students and alumni Thursday as South Dakota State's Harding Distinguished Lecturer. Taliaferro was the first African-American player drafted by the NFL after he closed his career with the Hoosiers... UNC Charlotte chancellor Philip Dubois recommended the school start a football program that would begin play in 2013 in the Football Championship Subdivision... Danny Granger made a recent donation of $500,000 to New Mexico athletics... Scott Woodward has been chosen as director of athletics at Washington.Due to Hurricane Ike, Houston's squad remained in the Dallas area for four days after its neutral site match against Air Force at SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium on Sept. 13. NFF Board Member Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys owner/general manager) helped the Cougars find workout times at Texas Stadium and the Cowboys' Valley Ranch practice facility during their stay before they left to play at Colorado State last weekend. Texas Southern alumni also helped the TSU team, which was stranded in the Dallas area for five days after Ike struck Southeast Texas.NFF Yankee Stadium Memories (1923-2008): NFF Board Member George Steinbrenner has been owner of the New York Yankees since 1973 after a solid career as a college football student-athlete and coach... It was site of Army-Notre Dame football games annually from 1925-47 and the location where College Football Hall of Fame coach Knute Rockne in 1928 made the "Win One for the Gipper" speech in memory of fellow Hall for Famer George Gipp... The 1929 Army-ND stood for years as the highest-attended game in that series at 79,408 before Notre Dame Stadium was expanded, and the schools played at Yankee Stadium for a final time in 1969 - in conjunction with the 100-year anniversary of the first college football game... 2008 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Arnold Tucker (Army) played in the famous scoreless tie game with Notre Dame in 1946... Interestingly, New York University holds the record for most college football clashes played at the Bronx edifice with 96 (52-40-4 mark) from 1923-48. Fordham was 13-5-1 in 19 tilts on the Yankee Stadium grass... Eight Thanksgiving Day skirmishes took place at the facility over a period of 1931-63 with Syracuse downing Army 17-15 in the '63 finale... The stadium was home to the 1962 Gotham Bowl (Nebraska downed Miami, Fla., 36- 24) and to the 1971-87 Whitney Young Urban Classic. College Football Hall of Fame coach Eddie Robinson took several Grambling teams to that contest and lost to Central State (Ohio) in the final Young Urban Classic at Yankee Stadium in 1987.Late College Football Hall of Fame coach Lee Tressel was honored with several surviving family members last Saturday with the dedication of Tressel Field at Baldwin-Wallace's George Finnie Stadium. Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel shares with his father the distinction of being part of the only father-son duo to have won national college football championships... Texas Tech received a $1 million donation from PlainsCapital Bank for an expansion project at Jones AT&T Stadium.The Texas Sports Hall of Fame presented by Texas Farm Bureau will induct gridiron stars College Football Hall of Famer Lee Roy Jordan (Alabama), Bill Bradley (Texas), LaDanian Tomlinson (TCU), and Steve Worster (Texas). The Hall of Fame in Waco, Texas, also featured book signings last week with College Football Hall of Famer Bob Lilly (TCU), author of "A Cowboy's Life," and award- winning writer Carlton Stowers' "Texas Football Legends: Greats of the Game"... Texas College 
Football Hall of Famers Tommy Nobis and the late Bobby Layne (represented by family members) will have their numbers retired during ceremonies at the UT- Arkansas game this weekend. Jerry Sisemore will also be honored for his 2002 induction into the College Football Hall of Fame... The Ray Guy Award announced 46 watch list candidates last week and will narrow the list to 10 finalists just prior to the end of the 2008 campaign... Kansas AD Lew Perkins has been named best sports executive by Time magazine... NFF Board member Mike Cleary, executive director of NACDA, joins head football coaches Robert F. Shoup, Jerry Tolley, and Ken Sparks as 2009 inductees into the NAIA Hall of Fame... Former South Carolina State head coach Willie Jeffries has been inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in Atlanta... Texas A&M coaching great R.C. Slocum and athletics contributor Jerry Cox were recognized at the Aggies' 31st annual Burgess Awards Dinner Athletics Hall of Fame inductions last week... Brigham Young added football legend Shawn Knight and co-founder of the Cougar Club Ray Beckham to its 34th class of the BYU Athletics Hall of Fame... Wesleyan (Conn.) announced its latest Hall of Fame class, including former director of athletics and head football coach Edgar Fauver and College Football Hall of Famer Henderson Van Surdam from the 1905 WC squad.CBS Sports and CBS College Sports have inked long-term deals to carry Navy football encounters through 2017-18... MediaFLO USA will carry a lineup of live, full-length college football games on its mobile TV service through the 2008 season... Versus will air for the first time the annual Bank of America Atlanta Football Classic this weekend. The game will feature Tennessee State and Florida A&M.Including its debut at the Rose Bowl before the Tennessee-UCLA game on September 1, the Sports Illustrated Evolution of the Game Tour Presented by Nissan is making stops at 10 of the most anticipated college football games during the 2008-2009 season and will conclude at the SEC Championship Game on Dec. 6. Edd Bowers, 86, who starred and coached at Grinnell (Iowa) died on Sept. 16 in Grapevine, Texas. The NFF Iowa Chapter named him Distinguished Iowan at its 2008 awards banquet... Ron Lancaster, 69, who starring at Wittenberg (Ohio), died last week. To become an NFF member, please contact NFF Director of Membership Ron Dilatush at 800.486.1865 or via email at rdilatush@footballfoundation.com.
reunion of the Naval Academy class of 1958, while legendary boxer Muhammad Ali attended the Louisville-Kansas State game last Wednesday... College Football Hall of Famer Billy Ray Smith, Jr. served as Arkansas' honorary captain for the Razorbacks' game against Alabama last weekend... Notre Dame and Michigan State have solidified their annual football series contractually through 2025... West Virginia's Pat White moved into third place in NCAA history in quarterback rushing yards last Saturday... Boise State was named the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National Team of the Week... The Purdue athletics department, along with Boiler Green Initiative (BGI) and Purdue Refuse and Recycling, are asking football fans to boost their recycling efforts at Ross-Ade Stadium this year by placing 75 recycling containers in and around Ross- Ade Stadium for all seven home football games this season. The university will provide recycling bags, as well as trash bags to many lots for the pregame activities as well... The American Red Cross worked with Connecticut and Baylor fans to collect donations for recent hurricane victims before and during last week's ESPN telecast... Cincinnati student-athletes assisted and donated to the National Assistance League's Operation School Bell, to help 1,500 kids from 23 local schools with school clothing... Tennessee Athletics continues with its Sept. 18-28 East Tennessee Second Harvest food and cash donations' drive to aid underserved families in the region... Northwestern hosted its "Take a Kid to the Game" promotion for last week's contest with Ohio, as one child was admitted free with each adult ticket... College Football Hall of Famer George Taliaferro (Indiana) will address students and alumni Thursday as South Dakota State's Harding Distinguished Lecturer. Taliaferro was the first African-American player drafted by the NFL after he closed his career with the Hoosiers... UNC Charlotte chancellor Philip Dubois recommended the school start a football program that would begin play in 2013 in the Football Championship Subdivision... Danny Granger made a recent donation of $500,000 to New Mexico athletics... Scott Woodward has been chosen as director of athletics at Washington.Due to Hurricane Ike, Houston's squad remained in the Dallas area for four days after its neutral site match against Air Force at SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium on Sept. 13. NFF Board Member Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys owner/general manager) helped the Cougars find workout times at Texas Stadium and the Cowboys' Valley Ranch practice facility during their stay before they left to play at Colorado State last weekend. Texas Southern alumni also helped the TSU team, which was stranded in the Dallas area for five days after Ike struck Southeast Texas.NFF Yankee Stadium Memories (1923-2008): NFF Board Member George Steinbrenner has been owner of the New York Yankees since 1973 after a solid career as a college football student-athlete and coach... It was site of Army-Notre Dame football games annually from 1925-47 and the location where College Football Hall of Fame coach Knute Rockne in 1928 made the "Win One for the Gipper" speech in memory of fellow Hall for Famer George Gipp... The 1929 Army-ND stood for years as the highest-attended game in that series at 79,408 before Notre Dame Stadium was expanded, and the schools played at Yankee Stadium for a final time in 1969 - in conjunction with the 100-year anniversary of the first college football game... 2008 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Arnold Tucker (Army) played in the famous scoreless tie game with Notre Dame in 1946... Interestingly, New York University holds the record for most college football clashes played at the Bronx edifice with 96 (52-40-4 mark) from 1923-48. Fordham was 13-5-1 in 19 tilts on the Yankee Stadium grass... Eight Thanksgiving Day skirmishes took place at the facility over a period of 1931-63 with Syracuse downing Army 17-15 in the '63 finale... The stadium was home to the 1962 Gotham Bowl (Nebraska downed Miami, Fla., 36- 24) and to the 1971-87 Whitney Young Urban Classic. College Football Hall of Fame coach Eddie Robinson took several Grambling teams to that contest and lost to Central State (Ohio) in the final Young Urban Classic at Yankee Stadium in 1987.Late College Football Hall of Fame coach Lee Tressel was honored with several surviving family members last Saturday with the dedication of Tressel Field at Baldwin-Wallace's George Finnie Stadium. Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel shares with his father the distinction of being part of the only father-son duo to have won national college football championships... Texas Tech received a $1 million donation from PlainsCapital Bank for an expansion project at Jones AT&T Stadium.The Texas Sports Hall of Fame presented by Texas Farm Bureau will induct gridiron stars College Football Hall of Famer Lee Roy Jordan (Alabama), Bill Bradley (Texas), LaDanian Tomlinson (TCU), and Steve Worster (Texas). The Hall of Fame in Waco, Texas, also featured book signings last week with College Football Hall of Famer Bob Lilly (TCU), author of "A Cowboy's Life," and award- winning writer Carlton Stowers' "Texas Football Legends: Greats of the Game"... Texas College 
Football Hall of Famers Tommy Nobis and the late Bobby Layne (represented by family members) will have their numbers retired during ceremonies at the UT- Arkansas game this weekend. Jerry Sisemore will also be honored for his 2002 induction into the College Football Hall of Fame... The Ray Guy Award announced 46 watch list candidates last week and will narrow the list to 10 finalists just prior to the end of the 2008 campaign... Kansas AD Lew Perkins has been named best sports executive by Time magazine... NFF Board member Mike Cleary, executive director of NACDA, joins head football coaches Robert F. Shoup, Jerry Tolley, and Ken Sparks as 2009 inductees into the NAIA Hall of Fame... Former South Carolina State head coach Willie Jeffries has been inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in Atlanta... Texas A&M coaching great R.C. Slocum and athletics contributor Jerry Cox were recognized at the Aggies' 31st annual Burgess Awards Dinner Athletics Hall of Fame inductions last week... Brigham Young added football legend Shawn Knight and co-founder of the Cougar Club Ray Beckham to its 34th class of the BYU Athletics Hall of Fame... Wesleyan (Conn.) announced its latest Hall of Fame class, including former director of athletics and head football coach Edgar Fauver and College Football Hall of Famer Henderson Van Surdam from the 1905 WC squad.CBS Sports and CBS College Sports have inked long-term deals to carry Navy football encounters through 2017-18... MediaFLO USA will carry a lineup of live, full-length college football games on its mobile TV service through the 2008 season... Versus will air for the first time the annual Bank of America Atlanta Football Classic this weekend. The game will feature Tennessee State and Florida A&M.Including its debut at the Rose Bowl before the Tennessee-UCLA game on September 1, the Sports Illustrated Evolution of the Game Tour Presented by Nissan is making stops at 10 of the most anticipated college football games during the 2008-2009 season and will conclude at the SEC Championship Game on Dec. 6. Edd Bowers, 86, who starred and coached at Grinnell (Iowa) died on Sept. 16 in Grapevine, Texas. The NFF Iowa Chapter named him Distinguished Iowan at its 2008 awards banquet... Ron Lancaster, 69, who starring at Wittenberg (Ohio), died last week. To become an NFF member, please contact NFF Director of Membership Ron Dilatush at 800.486.1865 or via email at rdilatush@footballfoundation.com.Key NFF Dates
Oct. 19: First Release of 2008 BCS Standings - Irving, Texas
Dec. 9: NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf=Astoria - New York, N.Y.
Jan. 5, 2009: National Hall of Fame Salute at the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl - Glendale, Ariz.
Jan. 9, 2009: Presentation of MacArthur Trophy to BCS champion - Miami, Fla.
Dec. 9: NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf=Astoria - New York, N.Y.
Jan. 5, 2009: National Hall of Fame Salute at the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl - Glendale, Ariz.
Jan. 9, 2009: Presentation of MacArthur Trophy to BCS champion - Miami, Fla.
2009 BCS Schedule
Jan. 1: Rose Bowl presented by Citi - Pasadena, Calif., ABC
Jan. 1: FedEx Orange Bowl - Miami, Fla., Fox
Jan. 2: Allstate Sugar Bowl - New Orleans, La., Fox
Jan. 5: Tostitos Fiesta Bowl - Glendale, Ariz., Fox
Jan. 8: FedEx BCS National Championship Game - Miami, Fla., Fox
Jan. 1: Rose Bowl presented by Citi - Pasadena, Calif., ABC
Jan. 1: FedEx Orange Bowl - Miami, Fla., Fox
Jan. 2: Allstate Sugar Bowl - New Orleans, La., Fox
Jan. 5: Tostitos Fiesta Bowl - Glendale, Ariz., Fox
Jan. 8: FedEx BCS National Championship Game - Miami, Fla., Fox
- NFF -
Founded in 1947 with leadership from General Douglas MacArthur, legendary Army coach Earl "Red" Blaik and immortal journalist Grantland Rice, The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, a non-profit educational organization, runs programs designed to use the power of amateur football in developing scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement in young people. With 121 chapters and 12,000 members nationwide, NFF programs include the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., the NFF Hampshire Honor Society, Play It Smart, and scholarships of over $1 million for college and high school scholar-athletes. The NFF presents the MacArthur Trophy, the Draddy Trophy, presented by HealthSouth, and releases the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Standings.
For more information, please visit us on the web at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eLxVCnAKBnxSLLAlIGgxe_kCLRztDQPOHy7QmQE2C50NDBdOZQF35cNmqZ0ZgOIySfnp2JKBB1hYe-u-HfiEbcNUAN59UvFngw7lip74Lmd9Rx_X8_vx02XzTYhcqEB8
Founded in 1947 with leadership from General Douglas MacArthur, legendary Army coach Earl "Red" Blaik and immortal journalist Grantland Rice, The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, a non-profit educational organization, runs programs designed to use the power of amateur football in developing scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement in young people. With 121 chapters and 12,000 members nationwide, NFF programs include the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., the NFF Hampshire Honor Society, Play It Smart, and scholarships of over $1 million for college and high school scholar-athletes. The NFF presents the MacArthur Trophy, the Draddy Trophy, presented by HealthSouth, and releases the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Standings.
For more information, please visit us on the web at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eLxVCnAKBnxSLLAlIGgxe_kCLRztDQPOHy7QmQE2C50NDBdOZQF35cNmqZ0ZgOIySfnp2JKBB1hYe-u-HfiEbcNUAN59UvFngw7lip74Lmd9Rx_X8_vx02XzTYhcqEB8
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