Bowden To Receive Duffy Daugherty Memorial Award Today

The winningest coach in Division I-A football history will receive the Duffy Daugherty Memorial Awards for 2006.Florida State living legend Bobby Bowden, former East Lansing High teacher Jeff Smith and the late Don Canham of the University of Michigan will be saluted at a banquet at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, at Eagle Eye Golf Club, 15101 Chandler Road in Bath, Mich.

"It's another great group of honorees," Daugherty Award Committee President Patrick Boog said. "It's as strong a group as you could ever have. And it shows the kind of respect there is for Duffy as a person and as a coach."

The Daugherty Award was first presented in 1992 and honors the memory of the winningest coach in Michigan State football history, a sideline humorist and a pioneer in integration. It is given for lifetime achievement and outstanding contributions to amateur football.

With 359 victories, Bowden is still going strong at age 76. He was head coach at Samford, his alma mater, for four seasons and led West Virginia for six years before coming to Florida State in 1976. In 30 seasons with the Seminoles, Bowden's teams have won 286 games, earned two national titles and finished among the nation's top five teams a record 14 straight times.

Bowden will join college coaches like Schembechler, Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma, Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne of Nebraska, Eddie Robinson of Grambling, Ara Parseghian of Notre Dame, Joe Paterno of Penn State, Woody Hayes of Ohio State, Frank Kush of Arizona State, Biggie Munn of Michigan State and Hayden Fry of Iowa, plus ABC broadcaster Keith Jackson, as Daugherty Award wi