May 18, 2000
EAST LANSING, Mich. - College Football Hall of Famers Frank Kush and the late Biggie Munn will be honored with the eighth annual Duffy Daugherty Memorial Award at the Notre Dame-Michigan State game on Sept. 23.
Kush, an All-America guard on the Spartans' 1952 national championship team, ranks among the top 20 winningest coaches in collegiate history with a 176-54-1 mark at Arizona State from 1958-79. He was National Coach of the Year in 1975, when the undefeated Sun Devils finished second in the polls.
Munn, who brought Daugherty with him to Michigan State from Syracuse in 1947, led the Spartans to a 54-9-2 mark in seven seasons. That record included a 28-game winning streak and a Rose Bowl triumph in 1954, the school's first season of Big Ten play. Munn served as MSU's athletic director from 1954-71, with Daugherty his head coach.
Past winners of the award for outstanding contributions to college football were legendary coaches Bud Wilkinson, Bob Devaney, Eddie Robinson, Ara Parseghian, Joe Paterno, Bear Bryant, Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes and broadcaster Keith Jackson.
For more information, contact Pat Boog at (517) 333-2982.