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Football
Tim Brown Named To College Football Hall of Fame
April 30, 2009
NOTRE DAME, Ind. - Tim Brown, 1987 Heisman Trophy winner and two-time All-American, today was named to the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame.
Brown was one of 16 former college players and two coaches named to the 2009 College Football Hall of Fame Class, as announced in New York by Archie Manning, chairman of the National Football Foundation. The '09 class will be inducted at the 52nd annual awards dinner on December 8, 2009, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The players and coaches will be enshrined at the Hall of Fame in South Bend in summer 2010. Brown becomes the 43rd former Notre Dame player inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The Irish have six former coaches in the Hall and the 49 total enshrines are the most of any NCAA institution, the most recent being Lou Holtz in 2008. The first wide receiver to be awarded the Heisman Trophy, Brown became the seventh Notre Dame player to be heralded as the most outstanding player in the nation in 1987. He set 19 school records during his Irish career and earned the nickname "Touchdown Timmy." Brown's head coach, Lou Holtz, called Brown the most intelligent football player he had ever been around and was later quoted as saying, "I can't imagine that there's anyone else who can have such a major effect on a football game in as many ways as Tim Brown can." For his career, Brown averaged 116.8 all-purpose yards per game and totaled 22 touchdowns. He totaled a then-school record 2,493 receiving yards with 12 receiving TDs and averaged 18.2 yards per catch. Brown averaged 23.4 yards on 69 career kickoff returns with three returned for TDs and averaged 13.2 yards on 36 punt returns and three TDs. The two-time All-American (1986, 1987-unanimous) set a single-season record with 1,937 all-purpose yards as a junior in 1986. As a senior, Brown ranked sixth nationally with 167.9 all-purpose yards per game and also was awarded the Walter Camp Award. Brown led all Irish receivers as a sophomore in 1985 with 25 catches for 397 yards and three TDs and started 10 games. As a freshman, he set the freshman record with 28 receptions (since broken by Duval Kamara in 2007 and Michael Floyd in 2008). Selected in the first round (sixth overall) in the 1988 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Raiders, Brown played 16 seasons with the franchise, earning him the title Mr. Raider. He holds the NFL rookie record for most combined yards gained (2,317) and became the oldest player to return a punt for a touchdown in 2001. A member of the NFL 1990s All-Decade team, he was named to nine Pro Bowls and hauled in an NFL record 75 receptions in 10 straight seasons. Born Timothy Donell Brown on July 22, 1966, Brown grew up in Dallas, Texas, and attended Woodrow Wilson High School where he played football, basketball and track as well as served as vice president of his senior class and sports editor of the school newspaper. Brown graduated from Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 1988. Brown is the national chairman of Athletes & Entertainers for Kids and currently resides in DeSoto, Texas.
All-Time Notre Dame College Football Hall of Fame Inductees: Year Player Position Years Played 1951 George Gipp HB 1917-20 1951 Elmer Layden FB 1922-24 1954 00.html" >Frank Carideo QB 1928-30 1958 Harry Stuhldreher QB 1922-24 1960 John Lujack QB 1943, 46-47 1963 George Connor OT 1946-47 1965 Jack Cannon G 1927-29 1966 Edgar (Rip) Miller OT 1922-24 1966 Jim Crowley HB 1922-24 1968 Adam Walsh C 1922-24 1970 Don Miller HB 1922-24 1971 Louis (Red) Salmon FB 1900-03 1972 Angelo Bertelli QB 1941-43 1972 Ray Eichenlaub FB 1911-14 1973 Leon Hart TE 1946-49 1974 Marchy Schwartz HB 1929-31 1974 Heartley (Hunk) Anderson OG 1918-21 1975 John (Clipper) Smith OG 1925-27 1976 Creighton Miller HB 1941-43 1977 Zygmont (Ziggy) Czarobski OT 1942-43, 46-47 1978 Frank (Nordy) Hoffmann OG 1930-31 1979 John Lattner HB 1951-53 1982 Bert Metzger OG 1928-30 1983 Bill (Moose) Fischer OG 1945-48 1983 Bill Shakespeare HB 1933-35 1984 Emil (Red) Sitko HB 1946-49 1985 Paul Hornung QB 1954-56 1985 Fred Miller T 1926-28 1987 Tommy Yarr C 1929-31 1988 Bob Williams QB 1948-50 1990 Wayne Millner E 1933-35 1992 Jim Lynch LB 1964-66 1993 Alan Page DE 1964-66 1994 Jerry Groom C / LB 1948-50 1995 Jim Martin E/T 1946-49 1997 Ken MacAfee TE 1974-77 1999 Ross Browner DE 1973, 1975-77 2000 Bob Dove E 1940-42 2001 Ralph Guglielmi QB 1951-54 2004 Joe Theismann QB 1968-70 2005 John Huarte QB 1962-64 2007 Chris Zorich DT 1987-90 2009 Tim Brown WR 1984-87
COACHES Year Coach Record Years Coached 1951 Knute Rockne 105-12-5 1918-30 1970 Frank Leahy 87-11-9 1941-43, 46-53 1971 Jesse Harper 34- 5-1 1913-17 1980 Ara Parseghian 95-17-4 1964-74 1985 Dan Devine 53-16-1 1975-80 2008 Lou Holtz 100-30-2 1986-96
2009 College Football Hall of Fame Class Coaches
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