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Media & University Information Seminole Tradition SEMINOLE PAJCIC GIVES TO THE FOUNDATION DUNN NAMED 2005 NO. 1 GOOD GUY IN PRO SPORTS AND NFL MAN OF THE YEAR State alumnus Former Seminole tailback Warrick Dunn of the was and former quarter- named the 2005 No. 1 Good Guy in pro sports by The Sporting News. back It’s the second such award Dunn has received as last February he was made a sizable contri- recognized by the NFL with the Man of the Year Award bution to the Warrick for his efforts to help those less fortunate. Dunn started a founda- Dunn Foundation at tion to help single mothers soon after he entered the NFL. Through the Seminoles’ an- his “Homes for the Holidays” program, the Warrick Dunn Founda- nual spring game in tion has secured new homes for more than 50 single mothers in Dunn’s 2006. Although sepa- hometown of Baton Rouge, La., as well as Tampa Bay and Atlanta. rated by a couple of The FSU Hall of Fame member now joins former Seminole Derrick decades, both Pajcic Brooks, who was No. 1 on the The Sporting News’ 2000 Good Guy and Warrick Dunn were star football players Award’s list. who later made it a priority to give back to their communities. The two former players HE HAS WON AWARDS AND NOW HE IS AN AWARD met on Field at Doak A new national award, named after Florida State football coach Bobby Campbell Stadium during the annual Garnet Bowden was initiated by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes organi- and Gold Game to help others in need. Pajcic, zation in 2003. Named after the legendary FSU football coach, the on behalf of FSU and his law firm Pajcic and National Bobby Bowden Award highlights the collegiate football Pajcic, presented Dunn with $100,000 for the player who best epitomizes the term student-athlete. The person Warrick Dunn Foundation — an effort to ex- selected will be one of character, classroom excellence, athletic pand the “Homes for the Holidays” program achievement and community involvement. This award combines the that he started after being drafted by the role modeling of the NFL Player of the Year Award, the Heisman for in 1997. best collegiate player performance on the field and the CoSIDA Aca- demic Award for classroom excellence. The award is presented an- AFCA RECOGNIZES FLORIDA STATE FOR nually during the week of the BCS Championship game. The Fellow- ship of Christian Athletes will compile the nominees each year. GRADUATION RATE Florida State was among nine Atlantic ANDREWS INDUCTED INTO ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME Coast Conference Defensive Coordinator was one of eight individuals schools who were inducted into the State of Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. A recognized for gradu- native of Daleville, Alabama, Andrews played collegiately at the Uni- ating at least 70 per- versity of Alabama. He earned second team All-American honors as a cent of their football wide receiver and defensive back. He was also an All-SEC choice in student-athletes ac- baseball. In 1964, he received the Hugo Friedman Award as the Tide’s cording to the Ameri- best all-around athlete. He has been involved in five national cham- can Football Coaches pionships (two as a player at Alabama ’61 and ’64, as at Association annual Livingston ’71 and two at Florida State ’93 and ’99). He was inducted Academic Achievement Awards data in 2006. with Joe Ciampi (basketball), Jim Davenport (baseball), Tim Flock SMU won top honors with a 100 percent (NASCAR), (soccer), Lionel James (football), Buddy graduation rate while and McClinton (football) and Bob Veale (baseball). Duke were among six Division I-A institutions with a graduation rate of 90 percent or bet- ter. The ACC led all conferences with nine schools on the honors list, followed by the BOWDEN AND WARD INDUCTED INTO Seminoles In The Hall Of Fame Big East and Big 12 with four. COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME ...... 1988 ...... 1991 Seminole Head Coach ...... 2000 FSU PRESIDENT Bobby Bowden and Bobby Bowden ...... 2007 WAS A FOOTBALL STAR Heisman Trophy-win- ...... 2007 Florida State presi- ning quarterback dent Dr. T.K. Wether- Charlie Ward were in- PRODUCING THE NFL’S TOP PLAYERS ell starred on the ducted into the Col- football field from lege Football Hall of In August of 2006 the Wall Street Journal 1965-67. Wetherell Fame in 2006. The was coached by 2006 class included published the find- ings of what the pa- Bobby Bowden as a 13 All-America play- wide receiver in his ers and two legend- per labeled “The Dow Jones College-Foot- first two years. The ary coaches. was the president was part of only school with two inductees. The College ball Success Index”. The study sought a two of the longest Football Hall of Fame 2006 Class will be in- kickoff returns in school history. In 1965, ducted at the 49th Annual Awards Dinner at different way to de- termine the success of Wetherell took a lateral from Bill Moreman the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City in De- and raced 100 yards for a touchdown against cember and will officially be enshrined at the college football pro- grams by determin- Kentucky. The two pulled off another touch- Hall in South Bend, Indiana, during ceremo- down of 94 yards in a 23-20 victory over Mi- nies in the summer of 2007. Bowden and Ward ing how many of a school’s alumni made it to the NFL and how ami on Sept. 24, 1966. He is still tied for the are joined by Bobby Anderson (RB-Colorado), school record for the longest kickoff return. Bennie Blades (DB-Miami), Carl Eller (T-Min- effective those players were once they made nesota), Steve Emtman (DL-Washington), Tho- it to the . Florida mas Everett (FS-Baylor), Chad Hennings (DT- State not only finished No. 1 in their index FLORIDA STATE RANKED FOURTH IN Air Force), Chip Kell (OG-Tennessee), Mike but the Seminoles blew away the field. FSU COLLEGE FOOTBALL APR TOP 25 Phipps (QB-Purdue), Mike Rozier (RB-Ne- finished ahead of its nearest competitor by Florida State ranked fourth nationally in a braska), Jeff Siemon (LB-Stanford), Bruce Smith 11% causing the paper to exclaim “No con- 2006 USA Today poll of the top college foot- (DT-) and (RB- test”. ball programs in terms of academic and ath- Florida). Penn State’s Joe Paterno joins Bowden letic success. The newspaper took the final as the two coaches inducted into the College USA Today/Coaches Top 25 poll from the Football Hall of Fame. 2005 season and re-ordered it using the re- 205

47365-FSU MG Pg 187-208 U#3C59E 205 7/4/07, 6:35 PM Media & University Information SIX FEET UNDER “UNCONQUERED” Florida State’s sod Dedicated October 10, 2003, Fritz White’s bronze statue “Unconquered” was cemetery holds designed to captured the indomitable spirit of the Seminole people and those chunks of the field who have adopted that spirit as a symbol for their university. The massive from great Seminole structure including its granite-covered pedestal base stands approximately 31 road wins. See the feet in the air and depicts a spear-brandishing Seminole astride a rearing horse. complete list on page At sunset the night before each home game, the spear is ignited and burns 181. until sunrise on the next morning after the game. George Langford endow- ment of the project for up to $1 million helped make the statue a reality. Fifty one artists were then considered before White eventually saw the statue dedi- cated 10 years after the concept was inspired by attorney and FSU graduate Stephen Reilly’s trip to South Bend, IN for an FSU football game. BROOKS ON BOARD OF TRUSTEES estab- BOWDEN IN BRONZE lished himself as one Head coach Bobby Bowden is bigger than life in front of the Moore Athletics of the greatest play- Center at Florida State as a bronze statue of his likeness on the field was un- ers in school history veiled in a ceremony on Sept. 24, 2004. The statue is one and a half life-size of during his career at Coach Bowden. The statue was sculpted by Tallahassee artist Stanley Proctor. Florida State. He also The artist has also created a smaller piece of artwork, measuring just over 12 made a name for him- inches high, featuring Bowden and . self academically as a First-Team Academic All-American in 1994 NO NEW HOME FOR BOWDEN and the winner of an Bobby and Ann Bowden live in the same home that they bought when he took NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship. He has the FSU head coaching job in 1976, although they have made some additions. also established himself as one of the finest They have even had the same phone number for the past 30 years. Bowden players in the NFL and led his Tampa Bay still maintains a grueling off-season schedule that includes a 24-stop Seminole Buccaneers to the World Championship in Booster speaking and golfing tour. Bowden is an early riser generally waking 2002. Now he is the boss — sort of. Brooks before 4:30 a.m. He reads and often watches film before coming into the is in his fourth year as a member of Florida office. He plays golf nearly every day from the end of spring practice until after State’s Board of Trustees having been named the family vacation in July then does not touch the clubs again until the next to the board in 2003. spring. SEALED LOCKERS The retirement (or permanent sealing) cently released NCAA Academic Progress FLORIDA STATE IS TOP TITLE TEAM of lockers in the Rate (APR). Florida State has won Florida State locker- 12 ACC champion- room began after No. School (Final Coaches Poll) ...... APR ships (nine outright ‚ senior 1. Boston College (17) ...... 982 and two shared) and season in 1988. The 2. Auburn (14) ...... 981 is the national leader criterion for locker re- 3. Florida (16) ...... 966 in conference cham- tirement allows only 4. Florida State (23) ...... 959 pionships since join- the dressing area of a 5. Penn State (3) ...... 957 ing the ACC in 1992. two-time consensus All-American and/or Heisman Trophy win- COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S ners to be retired. (1979-80), WINNINGEST COACH Deion Sanders (1987-88), Marvin Jones ACC ...... Florida State (12) (1991-92), Derrick Brooks (1993-94), With 359 career victories, Florida State head (1998-99), Peter coach Bobby Bowden has more wins than SEC ...... Florida (7) Big 12/Big 8 ...... Nebraska (6) Warrick (1998-99) and Alex Barron (2003-04) any other coach in major college football have had their lockers sealed as two-time history. Bowden, in his 31st year at FSU in consensus All-Americans while Heisman Tro- 2006, passed Penn State’s Joe Paterno on the GOAL POSTS SALUTE PETERSON phy winners Charlie Ward (1993) and Chris list with a 48-24 victory over Wake Forest in The era Weinke (2000) have had their lockers retired. 2003. as head football The lockers are encased in glass with the coach at FSU was a player’s final home uniform and gear intact DOAK CAMPBELL SEATS 82,300 time of great offen- right down to the sweat bands. New structures in the sive innovation and of north endzone have many firsts for the up- start Seminole pro- SPORTSMANSHIP STATUE raised the seating ca- Between Gates B and pacity in Doak Camp- gram, including the first Seminole coach C of Doak Campbell bell Stadium once Stadium stands the again with the home to beat the Gators at Florida Field, coach- one ton, 15' tall of the Seminoles now Sportsmanship statue holding 82,300. A sec- ing the program’s first All-American in Fred Biletnikoff and recruiting James Thomas, the given in honor of ond deck of the Varsity Pappy Strum by his Club opened two years first black player to ever play football at FSU. A tradition of the Peterson era was to enter daughter Margaret ago in the northwest Strum Allesee, who is corner of the stadium just above the existing the field through the goal posts. As a trib- ute to the players and coaches of the an FSU graduate and structure. A mirror image of that has been built former Seminole in the northeast corner of the stadium, but con- Peterson era and their many firsts, “H” style goal posts were added to the field at Doak cheerleader. The en- tains skyboxes leased through the Seminole during symbol of the Boosters. The new additions brought the total Campbell Stadium prior to the 2002 season and will forever more be referred to as “Pete’s most important as- to 94 private boxes within the stadium. The pect of athletic com- football home for the Seminoles since 1950, Posts.” It is believed that FSU joins LSU as the only two Division 1A schools currently petition was sculpted by FSU alumnus and the stadium was named after the popular accomplished artist Edward Jonas. Florida State president who was instrumental using H posts. in the development of intercollegiate athletics at the new university. In order to help finance the stadium, a five-year season ticket was of- fered for $50.00 and FSU players helped paint the stadium at $1 per hour. The stadium was 206 built at a cost of $250,000 in 1950.

47365-FSU MG Pg 187-208 U#3C59E 206 7/4/07, 6:35 PM Media & University Information COULD HAVE HAD BOWDEN IN 1970 met. By 1963 the Seminoles were back to just 13 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Bobby Bowden signed one helmet, an all-gold version which once Florida State’s wo- his first contract as again lasted just one season as the word men’s programs head coach at FSU on “STATE” was added to the helmet in 1964. were brought to na- January 12, 1976. The tional prominence in four-year deal called TOMAHAWKS CAN BE WON AND LOST the early 1980s for a salary of $37,500 Florida State’s coaching staff and academic staff when the Seminoles per year. Many did not award tomahawks to individual players for earned five national know, however, that great plays or contributions on the field and in championships in four sports within a four-year Bowden actually inter- the classroom. Players may get a tomahawk for period. The golf program earned the AIAW viewed for the FSU job a crucial play, a score, a touchdown, saving championship in 1981 while the softball team in 1970. It went to tackle or various other achievements on the had back-to-back AIAW titles in 1981 and 1982. Tennessee assistant Larry Jones who was 15- field. In 1997, the Seminoles began receiving The women’s track and field program ran away 19 over three seasons before he was suc- tomahawks for outstanding academic achieve- with the 1984 NCAA Outdoor and 1985 NCAA ceeded by Darrell Mudra in 1974. ments as well. They look identical except the Indoor championships. Florida State’s other na- word academics runs down the handle of the tional titles include men’s gymnastics in 1950- SCHOLARSHIPS IN ’51 tomahawk. 51 and again in 1951-52. The men’s volleyball It was not until 1951 What many fans don’t know is that Florida team won the national championship in 1955 that Florida State be- State players can lose tomahawks as well. Poor and 1957, while football claimed a No. 1 rank- gan to grant athletic performance on the field or in the classroom ing in 1993 and 1999. Most recently, the men’s scholarships. The can cause a player to be stripped of the cov- track and field team took home the 2006 and move put added pres- eted decals. 2007 national outdoor title. sure on the program to win. FSU left the Dixie Conference and HISTORY OF SCHOOL COLORS petitioned for mem- Florida State’s school colors of garnet and gold date back to the Florida bership in the ACC State College championship football teams of 1904 and 1905. In and the Southeastern those championship seasons, FSC donned purple and gold uniforms. Conference but were rebuffed. Interestingly, When Florida State College became Florida Female College in 1905, it was the that spon- the football team was forced to attend the University of Florida. The sored FSU for admission to the SEC. following year the FFC student body selected crimson as the official school color of 1905. The administration in 1905 took crimson and SEMINOLES FIRST TO SCORE TWO combined it with the recognizable purple of the championship foot- The late Vic Prinzi, who ball teams to achieve the color garnet. The now-famous garnet and is a member of the gold colors were first used on an FSU uniform in a 14-6 loss to Stetson Florida State Hall of on October 18, 1947. Fame and was the color commentator for FSU FIGHT SONG the radio network un- While the war chant has become familiar at FSU games, the Florida til his death in 1997, State fight song still remains the definitive sound of Seminole sports. was the first college FSU’s band became the in 1950 and with that came player ever to score a the fight song. Tommy Wright, a member of the faculty in the School two-point conversion. of Music, was perturbed that the Seminoles had been using “On Wis- In 1958, the Seminoles consin” and the “Notre Dame Victory March” so he introduced the took the season-opening drive of the Tennes- song in the Sewanee game, setting to music a poem by FSU Alumni see Tech game on September 13th in for a Doug Alley. touchdown and Prinzi, playing quarterback, ran in the two-point conversion to beat the other OSCEOLA & RENEGADE national games by just minutes. Perhaps the most spectacular tradition in all of college football oc- curs in Doak Campbell Stadium when Osceola charges down the field FOOTBALL SINCE 1902 ACTUALLY riding an Appaloosa horse named Renegade and plants a flaming Florida State College did play football during spear at midfield to begin every home game. The tradition was born the 1902-1904 school years and played well in- on September 16, 1978 against Oklahoma State when a student led deed. The first game in 1902 was a 5-0 win the team from the tunnel riding a horse. Since the beginning of the over South Georgia Military on November 21 FSU tradition, three different horses and 10 different riders have ac- when touchdowns were worth five points. The tually appeared at a game. However, there have been a total of 16 NCAA nor the governing body at the time rec- horses trained in the Renegade program. The original Osceola and ognizes the early games for FSC, although the Renegade were Jim Kidder and Reo. In 2003, local businessman Bill school won the state championship in ’04. The Durham, who had trained the riders and horses for 20 years, passed 1904 season included a 23-0 win over Florida the honor and responsibility to his son Allen, who was a former rider in the 90s. The cloth- in Lake City. The school then became the Florida ing and rigging that Osceola and Renegade use were designed and approved by the Semi- State College for Women and would remain nole Indian Tribe of Florida. one of the nation’s top all-female institutions until the large number of returning veterans WAR CHANT from World War II triggered the state system Florida State’s “war chant” appears to have begun with a random to open Florida State University to men in 1946. occurrence that took place during a 1984 game against Auburn, but The school resumed football in 1947, taking on in the 1960s, the Marching Chiefs band would chant the melody of a Stetson in its first game. popular FSU cheer. In a sense that chant was the long version of FSU’s current “war chant.” During a thrilling game with Auburn in THREE DIFFERENT HELMETS 1984, the Marching Chiefs began to perform the dormant melody. For one season in Some students behind the band joined in and continued the “war 1962 the Florida chant” portion after the band had ceased. Most agree the chant State Seminoles took came from the fraternity section, but many spirited Seminole fans the field with three added the hand motion to symbolize the brandishing of a tomahawk. different helmets. The chant continued among the student body during the 1985 sea- Coach Bill Peterson’s son, and by the 1986 season, it was a stadium-wide phenomenon. Of course, the Marching three-team system Chiefs refined the chant, plus put their own special brand of accompaniment to the “war featured the two- chant,” for the sound we hear today. way Chiefs, the de- Atlanta Braves fans took up their version of the song and chant when former FSU star fensive Renegades Deion Sanders came to the plate as an outfielder. The Kansas City Chiefs first heard it when and the offensive the Northwest Missouri State band, directed by 1969 FSU graduate Al Sergel, performed Warriors. Each group the chant while the players were warming up for a game against San Diego. wore a different hel- 207

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