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COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
Procedure Guide and Criteria
PROCEDURE GUIDE:
1. Nominations may be made by any dues-paying
member of the National Football Foundation, or by athletic directors, coaches,
or CoSIDA members representing dues-paying colleges or universities.
2. Statistics and records, personal recommendations
by coaches, fellow players, and opponents are all considered.
3. The National Football Foundation staff will
screen each candidate. After ascertaining that nominations satisfy the requirements,
the nominees are submitted to the District Screening Committee [link to
DSC page] (DSC) nearest to which the nominee played. New nominees as well
as individuals who appeared on the previous year's ballot will be included
in this process.
4. The top vote getters from the DSC are forwarded
to The National Football Foundation staff for inclusion on the ballot. (The
ballot also carries names of candidates held over from the previous year.
These carryover names are decided upon by the Honors Court). [Link to Honors
Court page]
5. Candidates who do not make the ballot must
be re-nominated to be eligible for the following year's ballot. A re-nomination
simply takes a candidate off the inactive archive and places him in the
active file.
6. The ballot selection is approved by the Awards
Committee of The National Football Foundation.
7. The ballot of players and coaches is mailed
to all dues-paying members for a member vote, of which results are provided
to the Honors Court as part of the information for its meeting. The Honors
Court selects the Class.
CRITERIA:
1. FIRST AND FOREMOST, A PLAYER MUST HAVE RECEIVED
MAJOR FIRST TEAM ALL-AMERICA RECOGNITION.
2. A player becomes eligible for consideration
by the Foundation's Honors Court 10 years after his last year of intercollegiate
football played.
3. While each nominee's football achievements
are of prime consideration, his post-football record as a citizen is also
weighed. He must have proven himself worthy as a citizen, carrying the ideals
of football forward into his relations with his community and his fellow
man with love of his country. Consideration may also be given for academic
honors and whether or not the candidate earned a college degree.
4. In accordance with the 50-year rule,* players
must have played their last year of intercollegiate football within the
last 50 years. For example, to be eligible for the 2005 ballot, the player
must have played his last year in 1955 or thereafter. In addition, players
who are playing professionally and coaches who are coaching on the professional
level are not eligible until after they retire.
5. A coach becomes eligible three years after retirement or immediately following retirement provided he is at least 70 years of age. Active coaches become eligible at 75 years of age. He must have been a head coach for a minimum of 10 years and coached at least 100 games with a .600 winning percentage*.
*Those players that do not comply with the 50-year rule and coaches who
have not won 60% of their games may still be eligible for consideration
by the Division I-A and Divisional Honors Review Committees, which examine unique cases.