FAYETTEVILLE — Former Arkansas coach and athletics director Frank Broyles will posthumously be presented the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award on Jan. 9, 2018, in Charlotte, N.C.
The award is sponsored by the American Football Coaches Association and presented to those "whose services have been outstanding in the advancement of the best interests in football," according to a release. Broyles, who died in August, served as head coach at Arkansas for 19 seasons and as athletics director for 34 years until his retirement in 2007.
Broyles won 144 games and seven Southwest Conference championships during his time as coach of the Razorbacks from 1958-76. In 1964, he led Arkansas to its only national championship with an undefeated season that was capped with a win over Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl.
As athletics director in 1990, he helped broker a deal for Arkansas to join the Southeastern Conference. That move was at the forefront of a wave of conference expansion that lasted nearly a quarter-century.
Broyles is the 73rd recipient of the award, which has been presented most years since 1940 to some of the most notable figures in college football. Among the past recipients of the award have been two of Broyles' closest friends - former Texas coach Darrell Royal in 2010 and broadcaster Keith Jackson in 1993 - and former Broyles player Ken Hatfield in 2015. Hatfield served as Arkansas' head coach from 1984-89 while Broyles was athletics director.
Longtime Iowa coach Hayden Fry, who was an assistant for Broyles for one season at Arkansas, also was a recipient in 2005.
Broyles will be the second person to posthumously receive the award - a plaque that replicates one given to Stagg in 1939 in commemoration of his 50 years of service to college football. Stagg was a college coach for 57 years and won 314 games.
Past Amos Alonzo Stagg Award Winners
1940 Donald Herring, Jr.
1941 William H. Cowell (posthumously)
1946 Grantland Rice
1947 William A. Alexander
1948 Gilmour Dobie, Glenn S. “Pop” Warner and Robert C. Zuppke
1949 Richard C. Harlow
1951 DeOrmond “Tuss” McLaughry
1952 A.N. “Bo” McMillin
1953 Lou Little
1954 Dana X. Bible
1955 Joseph J. Tomlin
1957 Robert R. Neyland
1958 Bernie Bierman
1959 John W. Wilce
1960 Harvey J. Harman
1961 Ray Eliot
1962 E.E. “Tad” Wieman
1963 Andrew Kerr
1964 Don Faurot
1965 Harry Stuhldreher
1966 Bernie H. Moore
1967 Jess Neely
1968 Abe Martin
1969 Charles A. “Rip” Engle
1970 Lynn “Pappy” Waldorf
1971 Bill Murray, Delaware
1972 Jack Curtice
1973 Lloyd Jordan
1974 Alonzo S. “Jake” Gaither
1975 Gerald B. Zornow
1977 Floyd “Ben” Schwartzwalder
1978 Tom Hamilton
1979 H.O. “Fritz” Crisler
1981 Fred Russell
1982 Eddie Robinson
1983 Paul W. “Bear” Bryant
1984 Charles B. “Bud” Wilkinson
1985 Duffy Daugherty
1986 Woody Hayes
1987 Field Scovell
1988 G. Herbert McCracken
1989 David Nelson
1990 Len Casanova
1991 Bob Blackman
1992 Charles McClendon
1993 Keith Jackson
1994 Bob Devaney
1995 John Merritt
1996 Chuck Neinas
1997 Ara Parseghian
1998 Bob Reade
1999 Bo Schembechler
2000 Tom Osborne
2001 Vince Dooley
2002 Joe Paterno
2003 LaVell Edwards
2004 Ron Schipper
2005 Hayden Fry
2006 Grant Teaff
2007 Bill Curry
2008 Bill Walsh
2009 John Gagliardi
2010 Darrell Royal
2011 Bobby Bowden
2012 Fisher DeBerry
2013 Frosty Westering
2014 R.C. Slocum
2015 Ken Hatfield
2016 John Cooper
2017 Don Nehlen
2018 Frank Broyles (posthumously)