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4/9/2013 8:00:00 AM | Football
Maryland's Football Hall of Fame Inductees
Bob Ward
National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame
Bob Ward weighed all of 165 pounds throughout his four-year playing career at
Maryland and, even in the early 1950s, that was no size for a lineman. Especially
a lineman who was a first team All-America middle guard on defense as a junior in
1950 and a first team offensive guard as a senior in 1951. The forte of the
Maryland teams of the early 1950s was consistency, a winning consistency. During
Ward's four years, the team was a combined 32-7-1, winning two bowl games (1949
Gator over Missouri, 1951 Sugar over Tennessee to complete a perfect 10-0
season). The awards and honors Ward earned as a Maryland player belie physical
stature, but speak volumes about the man. He was the MVP of the 1949 Gator Bowl,
Maryland's first bowl victory. He was the only player ever to earn All-America
honors as both an offensive and defensive position player. He earned Southern
Conference Player of the Year honors as a senior and was chosen Lineman of the
Year by the Washington Touchdown Club and the Philadelphia Sportswriters
Association in 1951. Bob Ward was inducted into the National Football Foundation
College Hall of Fame in 1980.
Jack Scarbath
National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame
Jack Scarbath is an integral part of Maryland football history. In his first
start, the All-America quarterback scored the first touchdown in the new Byrd
Stadium, a 21-yard run in the first game of the 1950 season. Scarbath was the
quarterback for Head Coach Jim Tatum's new Split T offense for three seasons
(1950-1952). Scarbath led the Terps to a 24-4-1 record, including a perfect 10-0
record and Sugar Bowl victory in 1951. In that time, he rewrote the Terrapin
record books. Scarbath completed 125 of 260 passes for 2,287 yards, an average of
18.3 yards for every reception. After his senior season, Scarbath finished
runnerup to Oklahoma's Billy Vessels in the voting for the Heisman Trophy, was a
first team All-America quarterback and a first-round draft choice of the
Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the National Football Foundation
College Hall of Fame in 1983.
Jim Tatum
National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame
In a brief time as a college football head coach, one season at North Carolina
(1942, 5-2-2), one at Oklahoma (1946, 8-3, Gator Bowl victory over North Carolina
State) and nine years at Maryland (1947-55, 73-15-4, 2-2-1 in bowl games), Jim
Tatum had become a coaching legend. Tatum's teams from 1950-1955 were 51-8-2,
with a perfect 10-0 record and Sugar Bowl victory in 1951. The squad marked 10-0
regular season records in 1953 and 1955 before both teams were upset by Oklahoma
in the Orange Bowl with the 1953 team the declared national champion. Maryland
enjoyed enormous success and has yet to regain the national heights of Jim
Tatum's teams of the early 1950s. Tatum left to return to his alma mater, North
Carolina, in 1956. He was inducted into the National Football Foundation College
Hall of Fame in 1984.
Stan Jones
National Football League Hall of Fame
Stan Jones was the starting right tackle on the Terp defense that allowed only 31
points during 10 regular season games in 1953. With Jones leading the way,
Maryland recorded six shutouts and allowed only one team, Georgia, to score more
than six points. He earned All-America honors that season and was chosen
"Outstanding College Lineman of 1953" by the College Football Coaching Board.
After his All-America career as a Terp, he served 13 years in the National
Football League. He played for the Chicago Bears for 12 seasons and finished his
career as a Washington Redskin. "I was very prepared for the NFL when I left
Maryland," Jones said. "From my coaches who taught me football to my professors
who taught me anatomy, physiology and weight training, I received a great
education. I couldn't have picked a better place to go -- they picked me and there
was not a better place to be." Stan Jones was inducted into the National Football
League Hall of Fame on July 27, 1991.
Dick Modzelewski
National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame
Outland Trophy Winner
Through three All-America years at Maryland and 14 All-Pro years in the National
Football League, Dick Modzelewski was always "Little Mo." At 6-0, 235 pounds
during his plays days at Maryland, he was one of the bigger collegiate linemen
during the early 1950s. He was the second Mo at Maryland, so he had to be
"Little" to his older brother Ed, "Big Mo." Dick Modzelewski played three years
as defensive back for the Terps on the great teams which were 24-4-1. He would
become Maryland's first winner of a major national honor when he received the
Outland Trophy as the nation's top lineman in 1952. Through his career at
Maryland, the Terps fashioned a 22-game unbeaten streak. The "Little Mo" led
defense allowed only 147 points with only four teams scoring better than a
touchdown while six were shutout. At the end of his senior season, Modzelewski
was named to every All-America team and was awarded the Outland Trophy. He was a
second-round draft choice of the Washington Redskins, while teammate Jack
Scarbath was the Redskins' first pick. He spent 14 seasons in the National
Football League, splitting time with the Redskins, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the
New York Giants and Cleveland Browns. Modzelewski was an All-Pro and on NFL
Championship teams with both the Giants (1956) and the Browns (1964). After
retirement, he became a defensive line coach for Cincinnati, helping the Bengals
to the 1982 Super Bowl. Dick Modzelewski was inducted into the National Football
Foundation College Hall of Fame in 1993.
Randy White
National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame
National Football League Hall of Fame
Lombardi and Outland Trophies Winner
Randy White changed the look of football's defensive lines. At Maryland, and
later in an all-pro National Football League career with the Dallas Cowboys, he
was regarded as the quickest defensive lineman to play the game. He could be in
an opponent's backfield before a quarterback could make a hand-off. In 1974,
Randy White cleaned up the college football awards plate. He was honored with the
Outland and Lombardi Trophies as the top collegiate lineman, was ACC Player of
the Year, was an unanimous first team All-America choice, named the Delaware (his
home state) Athlete of the Year and named the Amateur Athlete of the Year by the
Philadelphia Sportswriters Association. A first round draft choice of the Dallas
Cowboys (the second player selected overall), White was an All-Pro performer
throughout his career and shared Super Bowl MVP honors with Dallas teammate
Harvey Martin when the Cowboys defeated Denver in Super Bowl XII. No one else
will wear "94" at Maryland -- Randy White's number has been retired. He was inducted
into the National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame and the National
Football League Hall of Fame in 1994.
Bob Pellegrini
National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame
Bob Pellegrini was recruited to Maryland as a quarterback, but made his name as
one of college football's best linemen. In his first season, Pellegrini was a
6-2, 215 pound sophomore guard for the 1953 National Champion Terrapins. He would
play guard again in 1954 in an era when players went both ways, before being
switched to center for his senior year to fill a Terrapin void. As a senior,
Pellegrini led Maryland to its second 10-0 regular season and ACC Championship in
three years as the Terps defeated defending National Champion UCLA. He was
selected ACC Player of the Year, named consensus All-America and pictured as
Herman Hickman's cover boy for Linemen of the Year listing for 1955. Pellegrini
led the Terps to a 27-4-1 record over his career with rankings in the Top Ten
each season. He was the first pick in the National Football League draft by the
Philadelphia Eagles. Pellegrini became one of the building blocks of an Eagle
turnaround that took the team to the top of the football world. A losing team
when he joined, the Eagles defeated Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers for the
World Championship four years later with Bob Pellegrini at linebacker. Bob
Pellegrini will be inducted into the National Football Foundation College Hall of
Fame in December 1996.
