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The National Football Foundation released this year’s ballot of candidates for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. Lone Star Dietz is on the ballot again. This year, he is joined by:
- Barry Alverez of Wisconsin
- Jim Carlen of South Carolina, Texas Tech and West Virginia
- Wayne Hardin of Temple and Navy
- Bill McCartney of Colorado
- Billy Jack Murphy of Memphis
- Darryl Rogers of Arizona State, Michigan State, San Jose State, Fresno State and Cal State-Hayward
It will be interesting to see if the injustice done to Lone Star will be corrected this year. It also remains to be seen if the Lone Star Curse over Washington State will ever be lifted. WSU’s last undefeated season was in 1917, Dietz’s last year in Pullman. Their last, and only, Rose Bowl victory was in 1916 when Dietz’s undefeated warriors upset Fritz Pollard and Brown to put West Coast football on the map and to establish the Rose Bowl and all the other bowl games that followed.
Tags: Brown University, College Football Hall of Fame, Fritz Pollard, National Football Foundation, Rose Bowl, Washington State
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