National Football Foundation Gold Medal Winners

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Each football season, The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame pays tribute to a select few with awards of excellence for exhibiting superior qualities of scholarship, citizenship and leadership. Additionally, the Foundation also recognizes individuals who demonstrate outstanding support for the NFF and its mission of promoting the game of amateur football. The NFF Gold Medal is the highest award offered by the NFF.

Gold Medal Qualifications
Recipient’s life must reflect the values of those who have excelled in amateur sport, particularly football. He or she must have achieved success in an industrial, business, financial, educational, professional or related career and American citizen, most of whose business life has been spent in the United States. Moreover, they must must have unblemished reputation for honesty and integrity.

Additionally, he or she must have "contributed notably in public service to the welfare of his country and fellow citizens," either as a private citizen or as a government official or both. and have shown a capacity for dedicated institutional commitment to the problem of our competitive economy versus a centrally dictated society and a concern for the human spirit as well as the mind. Recipient may be an elected or appointed federal or state government official, or a member of Congress or any state legislative body, however, they shall not be selected because of political power or on a partisan basis.

[edit] National Football Foundation Gold Medal Winners

The Gold Medal, the NFF’s highest honor, has been presented to seven U.S. Presidents, four U.S. Generals, three U.S. Admirals, one U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 25 Corporate CEOs and Chairmen.

1958 - Dwight D. Eisenhower 1959 - Douglas MacArthur 1960 - Herbert C. Hoover and Amos Alonzo Stagg 1961 - John F. Kennedy 1962 - Byron "Whizzer" White 1963 - Roger Q. Blough 1964 - Donald B. Lourie 1965 - Juan T. Trippe 1966 - Earl H. "Red" Blaik 1967 - Frederick L. Hovde 1968 - Chester J. LaRoche 1969 - Richard M. Nixon 1970 - Thomas J. Hamilton 1971 - Ronald W. Reagan 1972 - Gerald R. Ford 1973 - John Wayne 1974 - Gerald B. Zornow 1975 - David Packard 1976 - Edgar B. Speer 1977 - Louis H. Wilson 1978 - Vincent dePaul Draddy 1979 - William P. Lawrence 1980 - Walter J. Zable 1981 - Justin W. Dart 1982 - Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA) - All Honored Jim Brown, Willie Davis, Jack Kemp, Ron Kramer, Jim Swink

1983 - Jack Kemp 1984 - John F. McGillicuddy 1985 - William I. Spencer 1986 - William H. Morton 1987 - Charles R. Meyer 1988 - Clinton E. Frank 1989 - Paul Brown 1990 - Thomas H. Moorer 1991 - George H. Bush 1992 - Donald R. Keough 1993 - Norman Schwarzkopf 1994 - Thomas S. Murphy 1995 - Harold Alfond 1996 - Gene Corrigan 1997 - Jackie Robinson 1998 - John H. McConnell 1999 - Keith Jackson 2000 - Fred M. Kirby II 2001 - Billy Joe "Red" McCombs 2002 - George M. Steinbrenner III 2003 - General Tommy R. Franks (Ret.) 2004 - William V. Campbell 2005 - Jon F. Hanson 2006 - Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden 2007 - Pete Dawkins and Roger Staubach

[edit] See also

• 2007 Press Release
• Walter Camp Man of the Year
• Walter Camp Distinguished American Award
• Walter Camp Alumni of the Year
• Amos Alonzo Stagg Award
• National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award
• National Football Foundation Gold Medal Winners
• Theodore Roosevelt Award (NCAA)

College football awards:
Best player awards: Heisman Memorial Trophy Maxwell Award | Walter Camp Award
Bronko Nagurski Trophy (Best Defenseman) Chuck Bednarik Award (Best Defenseman) Dave Rimington Trophy (Best C) Davey O'Brien Award (Best QB) Dick Butkus Award (Best LB) Doak Walker Award (Best RB) Draddy Trophy (Academic Heisman) Fred Biletnikoff Award (Best WR) Jim Thorpe Award (Best DB) John Mackey Award (Best TE) Johnny Unitas Award (Best Senior QB)	Lombardi Award (Best Lineman or LB) Lott Trophy (Defensive impact) Lou Groza Award (Best PK) Manning Award (Best QB) Mosi Tatupu Award (Best spec. teams) Outland Trophy (Best IOL or DL) Ray Guy Award (Best P) Randy Moss Award (Best KR/PR) Sammy Baugh Trophy (Best QB) Ted Hendricks Award (Best DE) Wuerffel Trophy (Humanitarian-Athlete)
Paul “Bear” Bryant Coach of the Year | Home Depot Coach of the Year Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year | Walter Camp Coach of the Year Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year | Broyles Assistant Coach of the Year
Walter Payton Award (Best Div. I FCS Off.) | Buck Buchanan Award (Best Div. I FCS Def.) Eddie Robinson Award (Best Div. I FCS Coach)
Harlon Hill Trophy (Div. II) | Gagliardi Trophy (Div. III) | Melberger Award (Div. III)