Former Oregon running back Ahmad Rashad, then known as Bobby Moore, is one of 75 football players and eight coaches who are up for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame.
The National Football Foundation made the announcement Monday for the names making up the 2007 Football Bowl Subdivision Ballot.
The ballot was sent to 12,000 NFF members and honorees will be selected by that group. With more than 4.5 million people to have played college football, just 813 players have been inducted. On the coaching side, there have been 174 individuals inducted.
Rashad played running back and wide receiver at Oregon and was named First Team All-America in 1971. He was First Team All-Conference from 1969 to 1971. Rashad had the distinction of becoming the first player to lead the Pacific-10 Conference in scoring in consecutive years at two different positions. He broke 14 Oregon records.
He later went on to play in the NFL for 11 seasons before retiring and becoming a sportscaster for NBC.
First-time ballot participants include Tim Brown (Notre Dame), Randy Cross (UCLA), Doug Flutie (Boston College), Pat Fitzgerald (Northwestern) and Curt Warner (Penn State).
Penn State coach Joe Paterno is going to be automatically inducted after the sideline injury he suffered in 2006 prevented him from going to the formal induction ceremonies in 2006.
– Jeffrey Dransfeldt