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SPORTS
Brown to receive campus salute vs. WVU
Troy Brown is a past winner of the Lowell Cade Sportsperson of the Year Award.
Purchase this photoHUNTINGTON -- College Football Hall of Fame member Troy Brown will have a Marshall University campus salute Friday when the Thundering Herd plays West Virginia in Joan C. Edwards Stadium.
The Friends of Coal Bowl airs at 7 p.m., Friday, on ESPN.
"We are looking forward to a wonderful night as we recognize Troy for his tremendous contributions to football at Marshall University in front of a sell-out crowd and a national television audience," Marshall athletic director Mike Hamrick said.
Brown, a Huntington resident, played wide receiver at Marshall from 1991-92 and earned NCAA Division I-AA All-American honors in 1992.
He was enshrined July 17 in the College Football Hall of Fame in the 2010 divisional class.
Throughout the season each College Football Hall of Fame inductee returns to his school for the special on-field event, where a commemorative plaque is presented to the university for permanent display.
"I am glad that enough people on the committee and everywhere thought enough about my college career that I deserve to be here and voted me in. It's a great feeling," Brown said at the enshrinement ceremonies in South Bend, Ind. "It says a lot about Coach Jim Donnan and his staff to think enough of me to make me a part of their team after not having such a great junior college career.
"They still thought that they had a good football player in me, and they really took a chance on me."
Brown was a dual threat on the field whose elusive nature as a receiver and kick returner led the Thundering Herd to back-to-back trips to the Division I-AA (now FCS) National Championship game. Marshall won the championship in 1992.
He caught 139 receptions for 2,746 yards and 24 touchdowns in his career en route to earning First Team All-America honors his senior year. Additionally, he boasted 1,825 return yards and four touchdowns on special teams.
The South Carolina native went on to play 14 years in the NFL with the New England Patriots, where he became the franchise's all-time leading receiver and won three Super Bowls.
