[NU Sports] FW: Lundquist and Musburger Named NFF Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award Co-Recipients

Tue Aug 16 12:20:09 CDT 2011

I had always heard Brent was an NU dropout? Have I misheard all these years?
Says below he is a Medill grad.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Roy S. Lamberton
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> Alum Brent gets an award.
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> Lundquist and Musburger Named NFF Outstanding Contribution to Amateur
> Football Award
> Co-Recipients
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> Legendary broadcasters Verne Lundquist and Brent Musburger to share the
> NFF's Outstanding
> Contributor to College Football Award in 2011.
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> DALLAS, August 16, 2011 - The National Football Foundation & College Hall
> of Fame (NFF)
> announced today that longtime voices of college football Verne Lundquist
> and Brent
> Musburger have been named co-recipients of the organization's 2011
> Outstanding
> Contribution to College Football Award.
>
> "We are thrilled to honor both Brent and Verne, two of the best announcers
> our sport has
> ever known," said NFF president and CEO Steve Hatchell. "Millions of fans
> have had their
> fall Saturdays enriched by their exceptional storytelling abilities, and
> they stand atop
> the broadcasting profession as true masters of capturing the drama of the
> gridiron. We are
> all truly fortunate to have been in their audience for so many years, and
> we look forward
> to honoring them at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner on December 6 in New York
> City."
>
> First presented in 1974, the award provides national recognition to those
> whose efforts to
> support the NFF and its goals have been local in nature or who have made
> significant
> contributions to the game of football either to the manner in which it is
> played and
> coached or to the manner in which it is enjoyed by spectators. Lundquist
> and Musburger
> become the 35th and 36th recipients of this prestigious award.
>
> Lundquist and Musburger are most recent individuals to be announced as
> recipients of an
> NFF Major Award in 2011, joining Dr. Archie Roberts (Distinguished American
> Award); Penn
> State Athletics Director Tim Curley (John L. Toner Award for superior
> abilities as an
> athletics administrator); and Ted Ruta (Outstanding Football Official
> Award). The Gold
> Medal recipient and Chris Schenkel Award recipient for excellence in
> broadcasting will be
> announced via national press releases in the near future.
>
> The NFF Major Award winners, along with the 2011 College Football Hall of
> Fame inductees
> and the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class, presented by Fidelity
> Investments, will be
> honored at the NFF 54th Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 6 at the
> Waldorf-Astoria in New York
> City. For ticket information, please contact NFF director of national
> events Will Rudd at
> 800.486.1865 or wrudd at footballfoundation.com.
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> VERNE LUNDQUIST'S BIO
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>
>
> Known throughout the sports broadcasting industry as the "Golden Throat,"
> Verne Lundquist
> has become an integral part of the sports broadcasting landscape during the
> past forty
> years with his memorable calls and a colorful approach that has made him a
> fan favorite.
> Currently, he serves as the lead play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports'
> coverage of
> college football, a post he has held since 1998 alongside analyst Gary
> Danielson.
> Together, they have become the voices on CBS for SEC football.
>
> The versatile Lundquist also handles announcing roles for CBS's coverage of
> college
> basketball, including the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship,
> the Masters, the
> PGA Championship, and other PGA TOUR events. During his first stint at CBS
> from 1983 to
> 1995, Lundquist called the NFL and NBA, and was the network's lead figure
> skating
> announcer for the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics.
>
> Prior to CBS, Lundquist spent eight years at ABC Sports and three years as
> a play-by-play
> announcer for TNT's coverage of the NFL, NBA, golf and figure skating
> coverage from 1995
> to 1997. In all, he has called 20 different sports, including track and
> field, swimming
> and diving, boxing, gymnastics and horse racing during his illustrious
> career.
>
> Lundquist began his career at KTBC-TV in Austin before becoming the sports
> director at
> WFAA-TV in Dallas, where he also worked as the radio voice of the Dallas
> Cowboys for 16
> seasons. He has been inducted into the National Sportscasters and
> Sportswriters Hall of
> Fame, the Texas Radio Hall of Fame and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.
> Lundquist claimed
> seven consecutive Texas Sportscaster of the Year awards from 1977 to 1983
> and was named a
> Legend of the Sun Bowl in 2005 by the Sun Bowl Association.
>
> Born in Duluth, Minn., Lundquist grew up in Everett, Wash. and Austin,
> Texas. He graduated
> from Texas Lutheran University in 1962 and received that school's
> Distinguished Alumnus
> Award. In 2009 Lundquist became a member of Texas Lutheran's Board of
> Regents.
>
> BRENT MUSBURGER'S BIO
>
>
>
> A multi-faceted talent with experience spanning decades and networks and
> nearly every
> sport imaginable, Brent Musburger has become one of the most-recognized
> voices and faces
> in all of sports broadcasting.
>
> Musburger currently serves as the lead voice of college football for ABC
> and ESPN, and he
> has called the action on ABC's Saturday Night Football since 2006. He has
> announced the
> past five Rose Bowl Games and four BCS Championship games, including
> Auburn's 22-19 win
> over Oregon this past season in the Tostitos BCS National Championship.
>
> Musburger joined ABC in May 1990 after 15 years as CBS Sports' primary host
> and
> play-by-play commentator. During his reign at CBS, his broadcast
> responsibilities included
> college football, The NFL Today, the NCAA Final Four, the U.S. Open Tennis
> Championships,
> the NBA and the Masters.
>
> During his celebrated 40-year career, he has worked nearly every major
> sporting event,
> including the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Finals, the Final Four,
> the World Cup,
> the Indianapolis 500, the Masters, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, and
> the Little
> League World Series, and he has done it across multiple media platforms for
> CBS, ABC,
> ESPN, CBS Radio Network and ESPN Radio. In 2011, he claimed a well-deserved
> spot in the
> National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame.
>
> A native of Billings, Mont., Musburger graduated from Northwestern
> University's Medill
> School of Journalism before beginning his career as a sportswriter for the
> Chicago
> American. He started his broadcast career in 1968 at WBBM-Radio in Chicago
> as the
> station's sports director, later assuming the same title for WBBM-TV. He
> then moved to
> KNXT-TV in Los Angeles as the co-anchor of the nightly news.
>
> Past recipients of the Outstanding Contributor to Amateur Football Award
> include:
>
> 1974 - Lathrop King Leishman
> 1975 - Joseph J. Tomlin
> 1976 - No honoree
> 1977 - No honoree
> 1978 - Jack Farcasin
> 1979 - No honoree
> 1980 - Field Scovell
> 1981 - Edward "Moose" Krause
> 1982 - Earnest E. Seiler
> 1983 - Gov. William Winter
> 1984 - No honoree
> 1985 - A.F. "Bud" Dudley
> 1986 - Rex Farrior
> 1987 - Chris Schenkel
> 1988 - Lindsey Nelson
> 1989 - Bob Woodruff
> 1990 - Bill Nichols
> 1991 - Don B. Canham
> 1992 - Eddie Robinson
> 1993 - John E. "Buddy" Leake
> 1994 - Mike Cleary
> 1995 - Fred Jacoby
> 1996 - Robert M. "Scotty" Whitelaw
> 1997 - Jack Lengyel
> 1998 - Marino H. Casem
> 1999 - Chuck Neinas
> 2000 - Tom Nugent
> 2001 - Thomas C. Hansen
> 2002 - Dal Shealy
> 2003 - Rudy J. Riska
> 2004 - Rick Dickson, Pat Harmon
> 2005 - Prentice Gautt
> 2006 - ESPN's College GameDay
> 2007 - The Collegiate Bowl Games
> 2008 - Bill Battle
> 2009 - Dan Jenkins
> 2010 - Dr. Joseph Kearney
>
>
>
>
> Known throughout the sports broadcasting industry as the "Golden Throat,"
> Verne Lundquist
> has been named a 2011 co-recipient of the 2011 NFF Outstanding Contribution
> to College
> Football Award.
>
>
>
>
>
> A multi-faceted talent with experience spanning decades and networks and
> nearly every
> sport imaginable, Brent Musburger has been named a 2011 co-recipient of the
> 2011 NFF
> Outstanding Contribution to College Football Award.
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