Football: Three on Hall of Fame Ballot
March 11, 2005 10:54 AM | General
March 11, 2005
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Two West Virginia University football standouts and a record-setting coach are among those on the ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation Hall announced recently.
Long-time WVU grid aide Don Nehlen is one of 10 coaches under consideration. Nehlen compiled a career 202-128-8 record at both West Virginia University and Bowling Green during a 32-year coaching career. He was named the 1988 AFCA, Bobby Dodd and Walter Camp national coach of the year after leading his undefeated Mountaineer team to the national championship game to face Notre Dame.
Nehlen also led WVU to the Big East title in 1993 and was named conference coach of the year. He led WVU to 13 bowl games and 17 winning seasons and is one of just 17 coaches in Division I history to have won more than 200 career games.
West Virginia University has two players among 75 being considered for induction in quarterback Major Harris and linebacker Darryl Talley.
Harris earned All-America honors in 1989 as a junior and finished third in the Heisman Trophy balloting that year and fifth as a sophomore in 1988. The Pittsburgh native became the first player in NCAA history to pass for more than 5,000 yards and run for more than 2,000, and he led the Mountaineers to bowl game appearances against Oklahoma State in the 1987 Sun, Notre Dame in the 1988 Fiesta and Clemson in the 1989 Gator.
Talley earned consensus All-America honors as one of college football’s most dominant defensive players in 1982. The linebacker ranks among the school’s all-time top tacklers and went on to have a fabulous career in professional football, helping the Buffalo Bills to four Super Bowl appearances. Talley is a native of Cleveland, Ohio.
More than 12,000 members of the National Football Foundation are eligible to vote for this year’s class, which will be announced in late April and officially inducted into at the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame’s 48th Awards Dinner on Dec. 6, 2005, at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. They will be officially enshrined at the Hall in South Bend, Ind., in 2006.
