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Marshall, Simmons in new College Hall class
Class to be entered into Hall of Fame in summer of 2009.
By RALPH D. RUSSO
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Former Florida linebacker Wilber Marshall and Florida State nose guard Ron Simmons were chosen by the National Football Foundation’s selection committee Thursday to join the College Football Hall of Fame.
Lou Holtz, who won 249 games with six schools and a national title at Notre Dame in 1988, announced he would be joining them at a news
conference in Manhattan with former Northwestern LB and current Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald and former Syracuse QB Don McPherson.
The other nine players chosen were: UCLA QB Troy Aikman; LSU TB Billy Cannon; Virginia OT Jim Dombrowski; Washington State RB Ruben Mayes; Arizona State guard Randall McDaniel; Wyoming TE Jay Novacek; Texas Tech split end Dave Parks; Oklahoma State RB Thurman Thomas; and Army QB Arnold Tucker.
John Cooper, who went
192-84-6 with Tulsa, Arizona State and Ohio State, was the other coach elected.
The class will be inducted at the NFF banquet in New York in December and enshrined in the summer of 2009 at the Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind.
Lou Holtz, who won 249 games with six schools and a national title at Notre Dame in 1988, announced he would be joining them at a news
conference in Manhattan with former Northwestern LB and current Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald and former Syracuse QB Don McPherson.
The other nine players chosen were: UCLA QB Troy Aikman; LSU TB Billy Cannon; Virginia OT Jim Dombrowski; Washington State RB Ruben Mayes; Arizona State guard Randall McDaniel; Wyoming TE Jay Novacek; Texas Tech split end Dave Parks; Oklahoma State RB Thurman Thomas; and Army QB Arnold Tucker.
John Cooper, who went
192-84-6 with Tulsa, Arizona State and Ohio State, was the other coach elected.
The class will be inducted at the NFF banquet in New York in December and enshrined in the summer of 2009 at the Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind.
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