BLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
ANNOUNCES CLASS OF 2014
October 23, 2013 (Atlanta, GA) – The Black College Football Hall of Fame announced its seven newest members today. The Class of 2014 includes six players and one coach. The inductees were selected from a list of 25 finalists who had been determined earlier by the Black College Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee.
The Selection Committee is comprised of black college football sports writers, analysts and commentators Roscoe Nance (Chairman), Donald Hunt, Ty Miller, Charlie Neal and Lloyd Vance former NFL General Managers Ernie Accorsi and Gil Brandt, long-time NFL scouts Charles Bailey and Charles Garcia, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Lonnie Bunch, and historian Michael Hurd.
The Class of 2014 includes Robert Brazile (Jackson State University), Leroy Kelly (Morgan State University), John Stallworth (Alabama A&M University), Michael Strahan (Texas Southern University), Willie Totten (Mississippi Valley State University), Doug Wilkerson (North Carolina Central University) as player inductees and
Marino Casem (Alcorn State University) as a coach inductee.
These men will be honored at the Fifth Annual Enshrinement Ceremony, presented by the Atlanta Falcons on March 1, 2014. The event will take place at the Loews Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia in conjunction with Black College Football weekend.
"The history of Black College Football is compelling and must be shared," said Atlanta Falcons Owner & Chairman Arthur Blank. "We are proud to support the Black College Football Hall of Fame and congratulate the Class of 2014."
MARINO "The Godfather" CASEM (COACH)
Coach … Alabama State University (1963-1964), Alcorn State University (1964-1985), Southern University (1987, 1988, 1992) … Won seven SWAC Championships at Alcorn State. Four time Black College National Champion (1968, 1969, 1974, 1984) … 1984 team finished as Number One team in all of Division I-AA football, the first ever for a HBCU … Resigned from Alcorn to become Athletic Director at Southern … Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (2003) … Career coaching record is 159 wins, against 93 losses with 8 ties … Born June 23, 1934 in Memphis, TN.
