Theodore Roosevelt Award (NCAA)
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The Theodore Roosevelt Award is the highest honor the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may confer on an individual. The award is awarded annually to a graduate from an NCAA member institution who earned a varsity letter in college for participation in intercollegiate athletics, and who ultimately became a distinguished citizen of national reputation based on outstanding life accomplishment. Each awardee, by personal example, is said to exemplify the ideals and purposes to which collegiate athletics are dedicated.
The award, nicknamed "The Teddy," is named after President Theodore Roosevelt, whose concern for the conduct of intercollegiate athletes and athletic programs led to the formation of the NCAA in 1906. Past winers include four former Presidents of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower (1967), Gerald R. Ford (1975), George H.W. Bush (1986) and Ronald Reagan (1990).
[edit] All Past Winners
- 2007: Paul Tagliabue - Georgetown University
- 2006: Robert Kraft - Columbia University
- 2005: Sally Ride - Stanford University
- 2004: Alan Page - University of Notre Dame
- 2003: Donna de Varona - University of California at Los Angeles
- 2002: Eunice Kennedy Shriver - Stanford University
- 2001: William Cohen - Bowdoin College
- 2000: Roger Staubach - United States Naval Academy
- 1999: Bill Richardson - Tufts University
- 1998: Bob Dole - Washburn University
- 1997: William Porter Payne - University of Georgia
- 1996: John Wooden - Purdue University
- 1995: Bob Mathias - Stanford University
- 1994: Rafer Johnson - University of California, Los Angeles
- 1993: Lamar Alexander - Vanderbilt University
- 1992: Jack Kemp - Occidental College
- 1991: Althea Gibson - Florida A&M University
- 1990: Ronald Reagan - Eureka College
- 1989: Paul Ebert - Ohio State University
- 1988: not presented
- 1987: Walter J. Zable - College of William and Mary
- 1986: George H. W. Bush - Yale University
- 1985: Robben Fleming - Beloit College
- 1984: William P. Lawrence - United States Naval Academy
- 1983: Arnold Palmer - Wake Forest University
- 1982: Bill Cosby - Temple University
- 1981: Art Linkletter - San Diego State University
- 1980: Denton Cooley - University of Texas at Austin
- 1979: Otis Chandler - Stanford University
- 1978: Gerald B. Zornow - University of Rochester
- 1977: Tom Bradley - University of California, Los Angeles
- 1976: Thomas J. Hamilton - United States Naval Academy
- 1975: Gerald Ford - University of Michigan
- 1974: Jesse Owens - Ohio State University
- 1973: Omar Bradley - United States Military Academy
- 1972: Jerome H. Holland - Cornell University
- 1971: Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- 1970: Frederick L. Hovde - University of Minnesota
- 1969: Byron "Whizzer" White - University of Colorado at Boulder
- 1968: Leverett Saltonstall - Harvard University
- 1967: Dwight D. Eisenhower - United States Military Academy
