National Football Foundation Gold Medal Winners

National Football Foundation Gold Medal
Awarded for	exhibiting superior qualities of scholarship, citizenship and leadership.
Presented by	National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame
Country	United States
First awarded	1958
Currently held by	Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman
Official website	http://www.footballfoundation.com/gold.php

Each football season, The National Football Foundation & College Football 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 have an 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.

Selection Process
Various individuals associated with The National Football Foundation, such as former recipients, board members, corporate leaders, chapter presidents and friends, send nominations and suggestions to the NFF Chairman. Selection of the recipient is made by the Awards Committee and ratified by the Board of Directors.

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 - Donold 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 2008 - John Glenn 2009 - Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman 2010 - Bill Cosby

See also

• 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)
• Walter Payton Man of the Year Award
• "Whizzer" White NFL Man of the Year Award

External links

• Official Website
• 2007 Press Release