Media & University Information Seminole Tradition SEMINOLE QUARTERBACK PAJCIC GIVES TO THE WARRICK DUNN FOUNDATION DUNN NAMED 2005 NO. 1 GOOD GUY IN PRO SPORTS AND NFL MAN OF THE YEAR Florida State alumnus Former Seminole tailback Warrick Dunn of the Atlanta Falcons was and former quarter- named the 2005 No. 1 Good Guy in pro sports by The Sporting News. back Gary Pajcic It’s the second such award Dunn has received as last February he was made a sizable contri- recognized by the NFL with the Walter Payton 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 Bobby Bowden 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 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 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 Mickey Andrews 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 head coach 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), Mia Hamm (soccer), Lionel James (football), Buddy graduation rate while Boston College 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 College Football Hall Of Fame Big East and Big 12 with four. COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME Ron Sellers ........................................... 1988 Fred Biletnikoff .................................... 1991 Seminole Head Coach Darrell Mudra ...................................... 2000 FSU PRESIDENT Bobby Bowden and Bobby Bowden .................................... 2007 WAS A FOOTBALL STAR Heisman Trophy-win- Charlie Ward ....................................... 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. Florida State University 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 National Football League. 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-Virginia Tech) and Emmitt Smith (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 Derrick Brooks 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 Doak Campbell Stadium. 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.