2008 Woodie Awards
A pair of class acts
Deromedi to be honored Tuesday with Penn State's Paterno
Issue date: 12/3/07 Section: Sports
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Herb Deromedi will be honored as a Hall of Fame coach Tuesday in New York City.
Deromedi, CMU's football coach from 1978 to 1993, will be honored along with longtime Penn State coach Joe Paterno at the National Football Foundation's 50th Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. Deromedi will be enshrined at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., in July 2008.
"I've been humbled and proud to be associated with an elite group of coaches I've admired for so long because of their success," Deromedi told Central Michigan Life in May. "To be in this same group is something I can't fully comprehend."
Deromedi is one of 14 members in the 2007 induction class. He is the first representative from CMU to be elected for the College Football Hall of Fame and the second head coach to be recognized mainly for his work in the Mid-American Conference.
Deromedi, who also was Central's director of athletics for 10 years, is the winningest coach in both CMU and MAC history. He went 110-55-10 overall and won a MAC-record 90 games in the conference. Deromedi also won three MAC titles and was named MAC Coach of the Year twice.
His teams pulled off two of CMU's biggest upsets in school history. He coached the Chippewas past No. 18 Michigan State, 20-3, in 1991 and beat the Spartans again, 24-20, the next season in 1992.
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Deromedi, CMU's football coach from 1978 to 1993, will be honored along with longtime Penn State coach Joe Paterno at the National Football Foundation's 50th Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. Deromedi will be enshrined at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., in July 2008.
"I've been humbled and proud to be associated with an elite group of coaches I've admired for so long because of their success," Deromedi told Central Michigan Life in May. "To be in this same group is something I can't fully comprehend."
Deromedi is one of 14 members in the 2007 induction class. He is the first representative from CMU to be elected for the College Football Hall of Fame and the second head coach to be recognized mainly for his work in the Mid-American Conference.
Deromedi, who also was Central's director of athletics for 10 years, is the winningest coach in both CMU and MAC history. He went 110-55-10 overall and won a MAC-record 90 games in the conference. Deromedi also won three MAC titles and was named MAC Coach of the Year twice.
His teams pulled off two of CMU's biggest upsets in school history. He coached the Chippewas past No. 18 Michigan State, 20-3, in 1991 and beat the Spartans again, 24-20, the next season in 1992.
sports@cm-life.com
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