RICHMOND, Ky. -- Eastern Kentucky University head football coach Roy Kidd will be presented the Johnny Vaught Lifetime Achievement Award for Head Coaches Monday night at the Banquet of Champions XI hosted by the All-American Football Foundation at Sam's Town Casino Hotel in Robinsonville, MS.
Kidd, who will be beginning his 35th season in 1998 as the head football mentor for his alma mater, Eastern Kentucky, will be one of 12 coaches honored at the banquet.
Others receiving this award Monday, with the current or past schools in parentheses, are: Grant Teaff (Baylor); Gene Chadwick (Delta State); Billy Jack Murphy and Ralph Hatley (Memphis); Maxie Lambright (Louisiana Tech); Larry Lacewell (Arkansas State); Vince Gibson (Kansas State, Tulane); Hal Labar (Houston); General Bob Neyland (Tennessee); Rex Dockery (Texas Tech, Memphis); and Steve Ehrhart (Colorado College).
"I am certainly honored to be mentioned with such a distinguished list of coaches, " said Kidd. "I have been blessed to have had the opportunity to work with so many fine athletes and assistant coaches through all these years. This award is as much for them as myself."
Kidd, who is serving in 1998 as President of the American Football Coaches Association, has compiled a record of 280-103-8 in his 34 years at EKU. He has led his school to two NCAA Division I-AA national football championships (1979, 1982), two I-AA national runnersup titles (1980, 1981) and 16 Ohio Valley Conference football crowns.
He is the third winningest active Division I or I-AA head coach behind Penn State's Joe Paterno (298) and Florida State's Bobby Bowden (281).
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