2007 Hall of Fame Ballot Released
Heisman Trophy winners Tim Brown and Doug Flutie are among those making their first appearance on the ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame.
Other first-timers include Northwestern linebacker Pat Fitzgerald, a two-time Bednarik Award winner as national defensive player of the year, UCLA offensive lineman Randy Cross and Penn State running back Curt Warner.
The ballot was mailed this week to the more than 12,000 members of The National Football Foundation. The votes will be tabulated and submitted to the NFF’s Honors Court, which selects the class. Former NCAA president and Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner Gene Corrigan heads the 11-member NFF Honors Court.
The Hall of Fame class will be announced May 9 and inducted Dec. 4 at The National Football Foundation’s awards dinner. The members will be enshrined at the Hall in South Bend, Ind., in the summer of 2008.
Brown, a receiver from Notre Dame, won the Heisman in 1987. Flutie won it in 1984 as quarterback for Boston College.
Other notable names among the 75 major-college football players on the ballot include UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman, UNLV quarterback Randall Cunningham, Southern California running back Sam Cunningham and North Carolina linebacker Lawrence Taylor.
Taylor and Aikman are already members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Among the eight coaches on this year’s ballot are John Cooper, who won 193 games for Tulsa, Arizona State and Ohio State; Dick MacPherson, who coached at Massachusetts and Syracuse; Darryl Rogers, who had successful stints at Fresno State, San Jose State and Michigan State; and Jim Donnan, who has a 104-40 all-time record after stops at Marshall (1990-95), where he won the Division I-AA national championship in 1992, and Georgia (1996-2000), where he had a 4-0 bowl record.
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