Former UCLA QB Troy Aikman was one of 13 players named to the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) Class. The release is below:
2008 FBS College Football
Hall of Fame Class Announced
13 PLAYERS AND TWO COACHES TO ENTER COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S ULTIMATE SHRINE
NEW YORK, May 1, 2008 – From the national ballot of 75 candidates and a pool of hundreds of eligible nominees, Archie Manning, chairman of The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, announced the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) Class, which includes the names of 13 First Team All- America players and two legendary coaches.
2008 COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME CLASS
PLAYERS
TROY AIKMAN- QB, UCLA (1987- 88)
BILLY CANNON – HB, LSU (1957- 59)
JIM DOMBROWSKI- OT, Virginia (1982- 85
PAT FITZGERALD- LB, Northwestern (1994- 96)
WILBER MARSHALL- LB, Florida (1980- 83
RUEBEN MAYES- RB, Washington State (1982-85)
RANDALL McDANIEL- OG, Arizona State (1984-87)
DON McPHERSON- QB, Syracuse (1984- 87)
JAY NOVACEK – TE, Wyoming (1982- 84)
DAVE PARKS- SE, Texas Tech (1961- 63)
RON SIMMONS- NG, Florida State (1977- 80)
THURMAN THOMAS- RB, Oklahoma State (1984- 87)
ARNOLD TUCKER- QB, Army (1944- 46)
COACHES
JOHN COOPER- 192-84-6 (.691) — Tulsa (1977-84), Arizona State (1985-87), Ohio State (1988- 2000)
LOU HOLTZ- 249-132-7 (.651) — William & Mary (1969-71), North Carolina State (1972-75), Arkansas (1977-83), Minnesota (1984-85), Notre Dame (1986-96), South Carolina (1999-2004)
“I want to commend the NFF Honors Court and its Chairman Gene Corrigan for their hard work,” said Manning. “The 2008 class represents six decades of football’s finest athletes, and they are all exceptionally worthy of having their accomplishments preserved forever in the College Football Hall of Fame.”
The 2008 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Class will be inducted at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner on December 9, 2008, at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York City. They will be officially enshrined at the Hall in South Bend, Ind., during ceremonies in the summer of 2009.