College Football Hall of Fame: Class of 2011

[KnightNoles]

http://www.collegefootball.org/news_article.php?id=2123

The 2011 College Football Hall of Fame Class included Carlos Alvarez (Florida), Doug English (Texas), Bill Enyart (Oregon State), Eddie George (Ohio State), Marty Lyons (Alabama), Russell Maryland (Miami), Deion Sanders (Florida State), Jake Scott (Georgia), Will Shields (Nebraska), the late Sandy Stephens (Minnesota), Darryl Talley (West Virginia), Clendon Thomas (Oklahoma), Rob Waldrop (Arizona), Gene Washington (Michigan State) and coaches Lloyd Carr (Michigan) and Fisher DeBerry (Air Force).

Members of the 2011 class of NFF National Scholar-Athletes, presented by Fidelity Investements, included Drew Butler (Georgia), Kirk Cousins (Michigan State), Micah Davis (Delta State, Miss.), John Dowd (Navy), Yaser Elqutub (Northwestern State), Chris Ganious (South Dakota), Clay Garcia (Colorado School of Mines), Chandler Harnish (Northern Illinois), Tysyn Hartman (Kansas State), Chaz Hine (South Florida), Joe Holland (Purdue), Jared Karstetter (Washington State), Andrew Rodriguez (Army), Ryan Tannehill (Texas A&M), Patrick Witt (Yale), Michael Zweifel (Dubuque, Iowa). Each received an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship with Rodriguez, collecting an extra $7,000 as the Campbell Trophy honoree. A total of $300,000 was awarded for the honorees post-graduate scholarships.

Article written by Ivan Maisel:
http://espn.go.com/college-football...hall-fame-shows-passage-time-society-progress

NEW YORK -- The 15 men and one woman on the dais at the media conference for the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday represented a living, breathing exhibit of nothing more elementary than the passage of time as distilled through the game.

Clendon Thomas, who played for Oklahoma in the 1950s, described the difficulty of tackling the great Jim Brown.

Carlos Alvarez fled Cuba as a child and went on to become an All-American at Florida.

"You had to get down on his shoes," said Thomas, who played against Brown in the NFL. "That was the only way to get him down. He was a little bit top-heavy. If you took him on in his upper body, you were going to lose."

Another article:

Hall of Famer Scott keeps promise to late friend​

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...hall.of.fame.1st.ld.writethru.0800/index.html

NEW YORK (AP) - Jake Scott had a promise to keep.
The former Georgia star doesn't make many trips to the mainland from his home in Hanalei, Hawaii, a small coastal town on the island of Kauai.
He made an exception, however, for the College Football Hall of Fame induction Tuesday because his late friend Jim Mandich made him vow to do so.
"He got me before it went down,'' Scott said Tuesday, referring to the death in April of his former Miami Dolphins teammate. "So I agreed to do it and that's why I'm here.''
Scott, along with Heisman winner Eddie George, former Florida State star Deion Sanders and retired Michigan coach Lloyd Carr are among the latest class of 16 players and coaches to be inducted into College Hall of Fame by the National Football Foundation.....

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

RIP Mad Dog Mandich...good to see Scott keep his word.

 

[Sportsbuck]

Eddie George got honored at halftime of the Wisconsin game this year for it. When they introduced him, the entire stadium started chanting his name just like back when he used to dominate as a player.