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DeBerry on College Football Hall of Fame ballot
March 7th, 2011, 5:48 pm · 5 Comments · posted by Frank Schwab
Former Air Force coach Fisher DeBerry has to compete with 87 other names on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot, but DeBerry did make that ballot.
The National Football Foundation announced that 79 players and nine coaches were on the ballot. There will be a vote among 12,000 NFF members, and their votes will be brought to the NFF honors court, which will select the class. The class will be announced in May and will be inducted during a ceremony on Dec. 6.
This is DeBerry’s first time on the ballot.
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I'm Frank Schwab, Air Force beat reporter for The Gazette. I've been at the paper since 2003, and covered the Broncos for seven seasons. I covered the University of Wisconsin in the late 1990s, so I'm well versed in running football teams (Ron Dayne) and defensive basketball teams (Dick Bennett). I love to chat on www.twitter.com/GazetteAirForce, and will respond to comments and emails at frank.schwab@gazette.com.
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Truly , Coach DeBerry deserves a first ballot election. His contributions to college football were great. His AFA teams in the era of two platoon -post 1963 season-football are unmatched by any other service academy teams. Remember, Navy’s great teams with Staubuak and Bellino and Army’s teams of the 40′s and 1959 were all single platoon teams.
DeBerry’s teams in the 1980s and 1990s were end of year nationally
Ranked in the top twenty. He was a coach of the year. He had true consensus first team All Americans including Chat Hennings. His squads defeated top Ten Teams.
Even his early 21st. Century teams bowled.
Always a class act certainly not motivated by cash.
He has earned admission.
Frederic N. Halstrom
Boston attorney
You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who had more of an influence on service academy football than Fisher in the last 50 years. The fact that all three teams now run some variant of his offense, coupled with AF dominance over two decades, speaks to not only his coaching insight and flexibility, but to his ability to recruit and retain good players and coaches in a notoriously difficult environment.
I’m hoping he’s in South Bend soon.
Fisher DeBerry was a great coach, and more importantly, the type of man any parent would want to have influence their son. He should be in the college football hall of fame without a doubt.
College Football News ranked Deberry #2 of the nine coaches on the ballot. – ahead of Jimmy Johnson and Bill McCartney, but trailing Lloyd Carr.
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