News and Notes from around college football for June 5, 2006
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News and Notes from around college football for June 5, 2006
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Coaches Challenge Approved by NCAA Rules Panel
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a rule change last Tuesday that will allow college football coaches to challenge one call by officials per game for review by replay, provided the team has an available timeout.
The team will be charged a timeout only if the challenge is unsuccessful and the call stands. Certain calls such as pass interference and intentional grounding will not be reviewable. In 2005, the NCAA allowed all conferences to adopt some form of instant replay, but the only person who could request a review of a referee’s call was an official sitting in a booth above the field. The Big Ten Conference first introduced instant replay in college football with a pilot program in 2003, and the conference adopted a modified system one year later. Last year, almost all of the 11 Division I-A conferences used some system of instant replay in their conference games.
ECAC Award of Valor Honors Two College Gridders
Lafayette College 2006 graduate David Nelson and Stonehill College senior Brian Benvie were among three announced recipients of the 2006 Eastern College Athletic Conference Award of Valor last week. Nelson, a four-year letterwinner at fullback and a co-captain for the 2005 Leopards team that captured a share of the 2005 Patriot League title, returned to action this year following a near-fatal stabbing in May 2005. Nelson lay dead on an operating table for about five minutes over Memorial Day weekend last year at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after being stabbed while breaking up a fight. A nurse revived Nelson, who was later released from the hospital following emergency heart surgery and four days of observation.
He returned to start all 12 games for Lafayette this year and scored a pair of touchdowns. Benvie, who will be a senior this fall at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., left his spot on both the offensive and defensive lines on the football team for an 18-month Army Reserve service term in Iraq.
Stationed west of Baghdad as a US Army MP prison guard, Benvie returned safely to the U.S. in July 2005, but broke his ankle in the fourth game last season and needed season-ending surgery. Both Nelson and Benvie will be honored during the ECAC Convention Honors Dinner on October 1.
Bill Manlove Takes Reins of U.S. Aztec Bowl Team
Longtime head football coach Bill Manlove, who compiled 212 wins in a 32-year coaching career at Widener, Delaware Valley and La Salle, was named the new head coach of the United States Aztec Bowl team. The squad, comprised each year of All-Stars from Division III schools, takes on Mexico’
s college national team in a game that began in 1947 and has since been played 35 times. Manlove succeeds Ron Schipper, the 2000 College Football Hall of Fame inductee coach who died suddenly on March 27. Manlove owns two NCAA Division III championships, both earned while head coach at Widener, and received AFCA National Coach of the Year honors in 1977. Schipper coached the U.S. team for nine years, including the 2005 team that defeated Mexico, 53-15, in Toluca, Mexico. The 2006 game will be played on December
16 at a yet-to-be-determined site.
Two-Minute Drill
Old Dominion voted to add football on the Division I-AA level beginning play in the 2009 season... Notre Dame safety Tom Zbikowski will make his professional boxing debut this Saturday in Madison Square Garden in a heavyweight fight against Robert Bell... The annual Civil War between Oregon and Oregon State will be played this year on November 24, the first time the rivalry game will be played on a Friday since 1927... South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier will make his first return trip to the University of Florida on September 2 as the Gators commemorate their 1996 national championship team, which Spurrier coached... President George W. Bush nominated Henry M.
Paulson, Jr. to be the new U.S. Treasury Secretary last week. Paulson earned All-Ivy League honors as an offensive lineman at Dartmouth in 1967...
Former BYU two-time captain Brad Martin, who played for the Cougars from 1995-1998, died last week at his home... Arizona State reached an agreement to broadcast every football game during the 2006 season in Spanish on KIDR 740 AM, Spanish Radio... Players and coaches from the University of Iowa football program started a year-long partnership with the DeGowin Blood Center at the school’s Hospital by donating blood last week... Florida Citrus Sports, the operating arm of the Capital One and Champs Sports Bowls, is hosting the Lighthouse Central Florida (LCF) rehabilitative services provider while their facility in Orlando undergoes renovations... Southern California and Colorado State cancelled their game scheduled in 2008...
Pat Bishop received the Howard Palmer Award for her extended service from Florida Citrus Sports... CBS SportsLine’s Dennis Dodd became the first journalist working solely for an internet site to receive the Fred Russell Outstanding Sportswriter Award... Tony Barnhart, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s national college sports writer, will receive the 2006 Jake Wade Award at the CoSIDA convention on July 3 in Nashville... Shelly Poe, the longtime sports information director at West Virginia University, will receive induction into the College Sports Information Directors
(CoSIDA) Hall of Fame on July 5...
Alamo Bowl officials are contemplating moving the date of their 2007 game, which pits teams from the Big 12 and the Big Ten conferences against one another, from late December to January 7... The SEC meetings held this past week in Destin, Fla., marked the first time all 12 head coaches returned from the previous season since 1988, according to the Associated Press...
Navy and the Meinecke Car Care Bowl reached an agreement that assures a spot in the Charlotte, N.C., game to either the Midshipmen or the Big East third-place finisher...
Don Wade, the former head football coach at Tennessee Tech, was among three inductees into the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame last week... Longtime Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder and former Kansas quarterback Bobby Douglass headlined a class of 14 inductees into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame last week...
Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz received a significant pay raise to $2.84 million this week after leading the Hawkeyes to four consecutive January bowl games... Ron Zook added former Akron offensive coordinator Jim Pry as an offensive assistant and tight ends coach on his staff at the University of Illinois.
Schedule Spotlight: Mid-American Conference
Team – Date – First Opponent (Home/Away/Neutral Site)
Akron – September 2 – Penn State (A)
Ball State – August 31 – Eastern Michigan (H) Bowling Green – September 2 – Wisconsin (N) Buffalo – August 31 – Temple (H) Central Michigan – August 31 – Boston College (H) Eastern Michigan – August 31 – Ball State (A) Kent State – August 31 – Minnesota (H) Miami (OH) – August 31 – Northwestern (H) Northern Illinois – September 2 – Ohio State (A) Ohio – September 2 – Tennessee-Martin (H) Temple – August 31 – Buffalo (A) Toledo – August 31 – Iowa State (A) Western Michigan – September 2 – Indiana (A)
With 119 chapters and 12,000 members nationwide, The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, a non-profit educational organization, runs programs designed to use the power of amateur football in developing scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement in young people. The NFF presents the MacArthur Trophy, the Draddy Trophy and releases the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Standings. NFF programs include the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., Play It Smart, the NFF Center for Youth Development Through Sport at Springfield College (Mass.), the NFL-NFF Coaching Academy, and scholarships of over $1 million for college and high school scholar-athletes.
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MONDAY'S CHALKTALK
News and Notes from around college football for June 5, 2006
www.footballfoundation.com/news.php?id=886
Coaches Challenge Approved by NCAA Rules Panel
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a rule change last Tuesday that will allow college football coaches to challenge one call by officials per game for review by replay, provided the team has an available timeout.
The team will be charged a timeout only if the challenge is unsuccessful and the call stands. Certain calls such as pass interference and intentional grounding will not be reviewable. In 2005, the NCAA allowed all conferences to adopt some form of instant replay, but the only person who could request a review of a referee’s call was an official sitting in a booth above the field. The Big Ten Conference first introduced instant replay in college football with a pilot program in 2003, and the conference adopted a modified system one year later. Last year, almost all of the 11 Division I-A conferences used some system of instant replay in their conference games.
ECAC Award of Valor Honors Two College Gridders
Lafayette College 2006 graduate David Nelson and Stonehill College senior Brian Benvie were among three announced recipients of the 2006 Eastern College Athletic Conference Award of Valor last week. Nelson, a four-year letterwinner at fullback and a co-captain for the 2005 Leopards team that captured a share of the 2005 Patriot League title, returned to action this year following a near-fatal stabbing in May 2005. Nelson lay dead on an operating table for about five minutes over Memorial Day weekend last year at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after being stabbed while breaking up a fight. A nurse revived Nelson, who was later released from the hospital following emergency heart surgery and four days of observation.
He returned to start all 12 games for Lafayette this year and scored a pair of touchdowns. Benvie, who will be a senior this fall at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., left his spot on both the offensive and defensive lines on the football team for an 18-month Army Reserve service term in Iraq.
Stationed west of Baghdad as a US Army MP prison guard, Benvie returned safely to the U.S. in July 2005, but broke his ankle in the fourth game last season and needed season-ending surgery. Both Nelson and Benvie will be honored during the ECAC Convention Honors Dinner on October 1.
Bill Manlove Takes Reins of U.S. Aztec Bowl Team
Longtime head football coach Bill Manlove, who compiled 212 wins in a 32-year coaching career at Widener, Delaware Valley and La Salle, was named the new head coach of the United States Aztec Bowl team. The squad, comprised each year of All-Stars from Division III schools, takes on Mexico’
s college national team in a game that began in 1947 and has since been played 35 times. Manlove succeeds Ron Schipper, the 2000 College Football Hall of Fame inductee coach who died suddenly on March 27. Manlove owns two NCAA Division III championships, both earned while head coach at Widener, and received AFCA National Coach of the Year honors in 1977. Schipper coached the U.S. team for nine years, including the 2005 team that defeated Mexico, 53-15, in Toluca, Mexico. The 2006 game will be played on December
16 at a yet-to-be-determined site.
Two-Minute Drill
Old Dominion voted to add football on the Division I-AA level beginning play in the 2009 season... Notre Dame safety Tom Zbikowski will make his professional boxing debut this Saturday in Madison Square Garden in a heavyweight fight against Robert Bell... The annual Civil War between Oregon and Oregon State will be played this year on November 24, the first time the rivalry game will be played on a Friday since 1927... South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier will make his first return trip to the University of Florida on September 2 as the Gators commemorate their 1996 national championship team, which Spurrier coached... President George W. Bush nominated Henry M.
Paulson, Jr. to be the new U.S. Treasury Secretary last week. Paulson earned All-Ivy League honors as an offensive lineman at Dartmouth in 1967...
Former BYU two-time captain Brad Martin, who played for the Cougars from 1995-1998, died last week at his home... Arizona State reached an agreement to broadcast every football game during the 2006 season in Spanish on KIDR 740 AM, Spanish Radio... Players and coaches from the University of Iowa football program started a year-long partnership with the DeGowin Blood Center at the school’s Hospital by donating blood last week... Florida Citrus Sports, the operating arm of the Capital One and Champs Sports Bowls, is hosting the Lighthouse Central Florida (LCF) rehabilitative services provider while their facility in Orlando undergoes renovations... Southern California and Colorado State cancelled their game scheduled in 2008...
Pat Bishop received the Howard Palmer Award for her extended service from Florida Citrus Sports... CBS SportsLine’s Dennis Dodd became the first journalist working solely for an internet site to receive the Fred Russell Outstanding Sportswriter Award... Tony Barnhart, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s national college sports writer, will receive the 2006 Jake Wade Award at the CoSIDA convention on July 3 in Nashville... Shelly Poe, the longtime sports information director at West Virginia University, will receive induction into the College Sports Information Directors
(CoSIDA) Hall of Fame on July 5...
Alamo Bowl officials are contemplating moving the date of their 2007 game, which pits teams from the Big 12 and the Big Ten conferences against one another, from late December to January 7... The SEC meetings held this past week in Destin, Fla., marked the first time all 12 head coaches returned from the previous season since 1988, according to the Associated Press...
Navy and the Meinecke Car Care Bowl reached an agreement that assures a spot in the Charlotte, N.C., game to either the Midshipmen or the Big East third-place finisher...
Don Wade, the former head football coach at Tennessee Tech, was among three inductees into the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame last week... Longtime Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder and former Kansas quarterback Bobby Douglass headlined a class of 14 inductees into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame last week...
Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz received a significant pay raise to $2.84 million this week after leading the Hawkeyes to four consecutive January bowl games... Ron Zook added former Akron offensive coordinator Jim Pry as an offensive assistant and tight ends coach on his staff at the University of Illinois.
Schedule Spotlight: Mid-American Conference
Team – Date – First Opponent (Home/Away/Neutral Site)
Akron – September 2 – Penn State (A)
Ball State – August 31 – Eastern Michigan (H) Bowling Green – September 2 – Wisconsin (N) Buffalo – August 31 – Temple (H) Central Michigan – August 31 – Boston College (H) Eastern Michigan – August 31 – Ball State (A) Kent State – August 31 – Minnesota (H) Miami (OH) – August 31 – Northwestern (H) Northern Illinois – September 2 – Ohio State (A) Ohio – September 2 – Tennessee-Martin (H) Temple – August 31 – Buffalo (A) Toledo – August 31 – Iowa State (A) Western Michigan – September 2 – Indiana (A)
With 119 chapters and 12,000 members nationwide, The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, a non-profit educational organization, runs programs designed to use the power of amateur football in developing scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement in young people. The NFF presents the MacArthur Trophy, the Draddy Trophy and releases the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Standings. NFF programs include the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., Play It Smart, the NFF Center for Youth Development Through Sport at Springfield College (Mass.), the NFL-NFF Coaching Academy, and scholarships of over $1 million for college and high school scholar-athletes.
NFF Contacts
Phil Marwill.......Director of Communications Chris Caputo.......Communications Assistant
22 Maple Ave.
Morristown, NJ 07960
973.829.1933
www.footballfoundation.org
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