Red Blaik

With 119 chapters and over 12,000 members nationwide, 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 today’s young people. NFF programs include the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., Play It Smart, the NFF Center for Youth Development Through Sport at Springfield College, the NFL/NFF Coaching Academy, and annual scholarships of nearly $1 million for college and high school scholar athletes. Each month American Football Monthly will profile a member of the College Football Hall of Fame – our February subject is a coach considered one of the most innovative minds in the history of the game and a founding father of the NFF: Earl ‘Red’ Blaik. Included is a synopsis of this legendary coach.