Rawlings Football College and High School Coaches of the Year

by David Purdum

American Football Monthly February 2014 Issue Online

It was a summer evening in the mid-1980’s. Volunteer workouts were revving up for the Salem University football team. Salem Quarterbacks Coach Terry Bowden pointed at his quarterback’s cleats and laughed.

“His football shoes were covered in cow manure and hay,” Bowden recalled with a chuckle.

Thirty years later, that quarterback with the stinky shoes is a national champion and Rawlings Football Coach of the Year, Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher.

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