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VOL. 45, NO. 2 • JUNE 2007 • .PDF VERSION

FWAA, Charlotte Touchdown Club unveil defensive legends award

The FWAA and Charlotte Touchdown Club will present the first annual Bronko Nagurski Legends Award in conjunction with the Bronko Nagurski Trophy this coming December in Charlotte.

The FWAA began selecting separate defensive and offensive All-America squads during the 1966 season. And the first annual award will go to the players at Michigan State and Notre Dame who played in one of the greatest defensive games of the 20th Century. The teams were ranked No. 1 and 2 in the country when they met in East Lansing that season. The historic game ended in a 10-10 tie.

For the only time in history, two players from two teams made the 1966 FWAA All-America team on the defensive side of the ball: Notre Dame's Jim Lynch and Alan Page and Michigan State's Bubba Smith and George Webster. One of those players or a representative from each school is expected to be in Charlotte on Dec. 3 for the presentation when the 2007 Bronko Nagurski Trophy is awarded to the best defensive player in college football.

In this issue of The Fifth Down:
• President's column: Sugar Bowl a BCS imposter?
• Nagurski Legends Award to be unveiled
• Outland Trophy watch list
• Nagurski Trophy watch list
• All-America checklist (.pdf)
• Grantland Rice Poll revamped
• Lodge notes

Starting in 2008, a special FWAA Blue Ribbon Veterans committee will select the Nagurski Legends winner from the 11 players who were named to the 1967 FWAA All-America Defensive Team. And in 2009, the committee will select a player from the 1968 FWAA All- America Defensive team and so forth.

A Bronko Nagurski Watch List for the 2007 season appears in this issue of The Fifth Down.

In this issue, there also is the complete 2007 FWAA All-America Watch List, and the Outland Trophy Watch List, along with the members of the 2007 FWAA All- America Committee.

The FWAA and the Charlotte Touchdown Club have combined to award the Bronko Nagurski Trophy since 1995, two years after the FWAA started a Defensive Player of the Year Award.
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