THE HELMET PROJECT
Take a trip down memory lane as we display various helmet designs worn by football teams from our region over the years. Some are obvious, some not as easy. See how many you can name and then click on the link at bottom to see how many you recall. All helmet designs and information courtesy The Helmet Project. CLICK HERE to test how many helmets you can name.
Touchdown Club Video Presentation
'Fight ‘em until Hell freezes over, and then fight ‘em on the ice.'
TCU’s Dutch Meyer
'Three things happen when you pass, and two of them are bad.'
Texas’ Darrell Royal
'I believe.'
Baylor’s Grant Teaff
'Never been licked.'
Movie about Texas A&M and its Corps of Cadets
'I didn’t think anything of it at first. Then I thought to myself, ‘My God, he’s coming out here to hit me.' ’
Rice’s Dick Maegle before Alabama’s Tommy Lewis came off the bench to tackle him in the 1954 Cotton Bowl.
'He could take his’n and beat yours’n, and then he could take yours’n and beat his’n.' Former Oilers head coach Bum Phillips on Don Shula.
If these phrases get you thinking about great football moments you have experienced, then maybe the
Touchdown Club of Houston
is for you.
Community-Service Projects
The TD Club assists area high schools through community-service projects. The Club has awarded more than $140,000 in scholarships to almost 200 high schoolers in Greater Houston in the past 10 years, and have given out about $150,000 in weights and weight equipment to 29 Greater Houston high schools in the past eight years. The high schools receiving weights are Booker T. Washington, Forest Brook, Reagan, Smiley and Houston Sterling in 2002; Kashmere, Madison, Scarborough, Wheatley and Worthing in 2003; Milby, Northbrook and Westbury in 2004; Furr, Sharpstown and Houston Austin in 2005; Willowridge, Jones, Sam Houston, Aldine and Yates in 2006; Eisenhower, Houston Lamar, Pasadena and Scarborough (again) in 2007; in 2008, Dulles, Furr (again) South Houston and Spring Woods; and in 2009, Booker T. Washington (again), Spring and Waltrip.
If you become a member of the TD Club, part of your dues will go to the National Football Foundation's Play It Smart program (www.playitsmart.org). Play It Smart puts academic counselors on high school campuses that are considered at-risk. Nationally, the program has allowed schools that had a graduation rate of under 33 percent jump to 95 percent. And of those 95 percent who graduated high school, about 80 percent have enrolled in college. We are taking kids off the streets and putting them in college. In 2008, Play It Smart counselors were put on all HISD campuses with athletic teams for both boys and girls athletes.
Sean's Shoes
The TD Club has teamed up with the Houston Texans' Sean Washington, the team's director of player development, to distribute excess cleats and tennis shoes to high schools in the area. The Texans players receive multiple shoes that they cannot use each season, and the TD Club funnels those shoes to needy high schools. So far, schools assisted are in HISD, Fort Bend ISD, Lamar Consolidated ISD, Anahuac, Goose Creek ISD, Bridge City and Spring Branch schools Northbrook and Spring Woods.
Atascocita player Cody Nicholson, left, accepts the 2009 Sterling Bank Sportsmanship Trophy, presented by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, on Jan. 14. Eagles assistant coach Bill Wilson beems with Nicholson and the trophy. Previous Sportsmanship winners are Klein (2006), Scarborough (2007) and Deer Park (2008).
Photo by Max Cottrell
BAYLOR DAY
Baylor coach Art Briles will discuss how the off-season training went, as well as what to expect this fall from the new players. The luncheon is at noon, Tues., July 14, at the JW Marriott, 5150 Westheimer.
Tickets are $40 each. Tables are $400 (regular table), $500 (bronze table sponsorship), $1,000 (silver table sponsorship), $1,500 (gold table sponsorship) and $5,000 (platinum table sponsorship). You do not have to be a member of the TD Club to attend.
For more information, or to order tickets, e-mail the TD Club Neal Farmer at houtdclub@comcast.net, or call 713-849-9860. The TD Club's website is www.touchdownclub.org.
LSU DAY, sponsored by HTK Consultants, Tomax and Woodrow's
LSU football coach Les Miles will speak at noon, Thurs., July 23, at the JW Marriott, 5150 Westheimer. Tickets are $50 each. Tables are $500 (bronze sponsorship), $1,000 (silver sponsorship), $1,500 (gold sponsorship), and $5,000 (platinum sponsorship). All premium table sponsors will get their name in the event's paper program.
NEXT EVENTS ------------
***Touchdowner of the Year, honoring Thurman Thomas, with All-Greater Houston preseason high school football team, 7 p.m., Wed., Aug. 12, JW Marriott
***TSU-PVAMU, presented by Frenchy's Chicken, A-Rocket Moving and Storage and Dixie Hardware and Electrical, noon, Wed., Sept. 2, The Power Center
About The National Football Foundation: The Touchdown Club is the Houston chapter of the NFF. Founded in 1947 with leadership from General Douglas MacArthur, legendary Army coach Earl "Red" Blaik and immortal journalist Grantland Rice, The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame -- a non-profit educational organization -- runs programs designed to use the power of amateur football in developing scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement in young people. With 121 chapters and 12,000 members nationwide, NFF programs include the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind.; the NFF Hampshire Honor Society; the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Alumni Association; the NFF Gridiron Clubs of New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas; Play It Smart; and scholarships of over $1 million for college and high school scholar-athletes. The NFF presents the MacArthur Trophy, the Draddy Trophy, presented by HealthSouth, and releases the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Standings.
For more information, please visit www.footballfoundation.org.
