ALL-CENTURY TEAM OFFENSE. supplemental information packet QUARTERBACK / VOTE FOR ONE (1)

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1 ALL-CENTURY TEAM supplemental information packet OFFENSE QUARTERBACK / VOTE FOR ONE (1) Antone, Ralph / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... set school record for career completion percentage and ranked among the school s leaders in 3 total offense categories and 9 passing categories. Cesarone, Jeff / All-America Member, WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... NCAA 13th in total offense set school career passing and total offense records that stood for two-plus decades. Doughty, Brandon / All-America Sammy Baugh Award winner WKU s 1st Heisman Trophy candidate (7 points) United Golden Arm Award finalist Maxwell Award Davey O Brien Award semi-finalist C-USA Most Valuable Player Senior Class Award finalist All C-USA NFL Draft 2016 (7th round)... NCAA 21st in completion percentage and 22nd in completions per game NCAA 1st in passing yards, 1st in passing TDs, 1st in points responsible for per game, 2nd in points responsible for, 2nd for passing yards per game, 3rd in total offense, 3rd in pass efficiency, 3rd in completions per game, 6th in completions percentage and 10th in yards per pass attempt NCAA 1st in completion percentage, 1st in passing TDs, 1st in passing yards, 1st in points responsible for, 2nd in pass efficiency, 2nd in points responsible for per game, 3rd in passing yards per game, 3rd in passing completions per game, 4th in yards per pass attempt and 6th in total offense virtually re-built the school record books for passing and total offense... credited with 22 of the yard passing games in WKU history. Feix, Jimmy / WKU Retired Jersey... All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame (member, inaugural class)... OVC 40th Anniversary Team All-OVC NCAA 7th in passing & 25th in total offense NCAA 7th in passing & 16th in total offense set career passing and total offense school records that lasted 17 years. Hall, John / OVC Offensive Player of the Year All-OVC WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... NCAA 7th in passing and 8th in total offense NCAA 7th in pass efficiency and 8th in total offense set school career record for completion percentage. Miller, Sharon Lee / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC Tangerine Bowl MVP Peckenpaugh, Leo / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC quarterbacked his Hilltopper teams to a WKU-best winning percentage of 81.8 (27-8)... set school career record for total offense plays Pickens, Jim / All-OVC 1948 (the quarterback on the 1st All-OVC team)... WKU Athletic Hall of Fame. 1 All-Century Team Supplemental

2 Taggart, Willie * / WKU Retired Jersey... All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... Walter Payton Award finalist NCAA 11th in scoring and 13th in rushing NCAA 17th in rushing and 24th in scoring set school and NCAA records for career rushing yards by a quarterback... also holds school career record for TDs scored (now shared with Anthony Wales)... and, holds top career point total for a non-kicker. Vance, Johnny / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC NCAA 7th in total offense and 8th in passing set career passing and total offense school records that stood for 18 years. White, Mike / C-USA Newcomer of the Year Senior Bowl No. 2 in career touchdown passes, completion percentage, and passer rating...no. 3 in career passing yards and holds the school record for consecutive completions in a game and pass attempts without an interception...ncaa 2nd in yards per pass attempt, 3rd in pass efficiency and pass yards per completion, 5th in pass yards, 8th in completion percentage, pass TDs and passing yards per game, 15th in points responsible for and 17th in total offense and 25th in points responsible for per game NCAA 4th for passing yards, 7th for pass yards per game, 17th for total offense and 20th in points responsible RUNNING BACK / VOTE FOR TWO (2) Arnold, Joe * / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... NCAA 4th in rushing and 8th in all-purpose running broke Dickie Moore s 20-year-old career rushing record in Andrews, Antonio * / All-America SBC Player of the Year Senior Bowl SBC Offensive Player of the Year All-SBC Paul Hornung Award finalist Doak Walker Award semi-finalist NFL Active NCAA 5th in rushing NCAA 3rd in rush yards per game, 7th in total rush yards and 11th in rushing TDs Was one of two players in NCAA FBS history to have more than 3,000 All-Purpose Yards in a season (Barry Sanders) in 2012 Broderick, Carroll / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-Kentucky & All-SIAA led state in scoring Elrod, Turner * / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-Kentucky Jackson, Clarence / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC NFL Draft 1974 (16th round)... NFL Active ; NCAA 5th in scoring his career school record for rushing TDs stood for 25 years; Finished with 2nd best career rushing yardage total in school history. McFadden, Gene / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC set school season and career standards for rushing that stood for more than a decade. Moore, Dickie / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... OVC Offensive Player of the Year WKU s 1st 1,000-yard rusher in led the nation in rushing in All-OVC 1965, OVC Half Century Team CFL Active NCAA 13th in rushing NCAA 1st in rushing and 2nd in scoring his WKU career rushing yardage record stood for 20 years; and, his season record for rushing TDs stood for 49 years. WKUSports.com All-Century Team Supplemental Information 2

3 Moore, Lerron / All-GFC NCAA 17th in rushing in NCAA 22nd in rushing in finished his career as the first Hilltopper to rush for 4,000-plus yards. Rainey, Bobby * / All-America ; SBC Offensive Player of the Year All-SBC NCAA 3rd in rushing NCAA 2nd in rushing and 24th in scoring NFL Active 12-to date... set 11 rushing records plus career and season standards for all-purpose running. Smart, Rod / All-America All-OVC NCAA 25th in rushing NFL Active CFL active Stevens, Max / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC set school career and season records for points scored and TDs that stood until the late 1960s. Wales, Anthony / NCAA 5th in rush yards per carry NCAA 1st in rushing TDs, 1st in scoring average, 1st in total points scored, 1st in total TDs, 8th in rush yards, 10th in rush yards per game, 11th in rush yards per carry holds school records for season and single game (tied with Antonio Andrews) points scored plus TDs scored in a season and in a game; and, has tied Willie Taggart for school record for career TDs scored. WIDE RECEIVER (VOTE FOR 3) Davis, Jay / All-OVC set school career and season records for pass receiving (catches, yards, TDs)... his 15 catches in a single game still stands as the school record after 49 years and his record for reception yardage in a game lasted 26 years. Downing, Howard Tip / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-Kentucky 40. Hamilton, Curtis / NCAA 19th in receptions in finished his career with school records for season & career catches as well as career receiving yards. McNeal, Willie / 2010, Freshman All-America All-SBC set school record for career catches. Norris, Nicholas / All-America NCAA 9th in receiving TDs, 13th in receiving yards and 22nd in receiving yards per game Norris and teammate Taywan Taylor finished their 4 years together as the most productive 1-2 tandem receivers in school history, accounting for a combined 447 catches for 7,325 yards and 67 TDs...Finished career as No. 2 in career receptions, yards, and touchdown catches behind teammate Taylor Preston, Eddie / All-OVC NCAA 6th in catches per game finished career with a school record for TDs; also ranked #2 in career catches and receiving yards plus season TD receptions... still one of less than 10 with 3 TD catches in a game. Stansbury, Ed * / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-Kentucky 29. Stockton, Joey * / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... one of just eight Toppers with 2,000-plus receiving yards... NCAA 11th in receiving yards All-Century Team Supplemental

4 Taylor, Taywan / All-America Biletnikoff Award semi-finalist Senior Bowl All C-USA NFL Draft 2017 (3rd round)... NFL Active 2017-to date... NCAA 2nd in receiving TDs, 3rd in receiving yards and 10th in receiving yards per game NCAA 3rd in receiving TDs and receiving yards, 5th in receiving yards per game, 14th in receptions per game and 20th in total TDs Taylor and teammate Nicholas Norris finished their 4 years together as the most productive 1-2 tandem receivers in school history... holds school records for career & season catches, yards and TDs. Williams, Porter / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC set school records for catches, receiving yards and TDs receiving in a season that stood for more than 4 decades... also set a school standard career TD catches... his 4 receptions for TDs at Murray St (including a school record 96-yarder for a score) in 1973 remain a WKU best. TIGHT END (VOTE FOR 1) Biggins, Milton / All-America NFL Draft 1992 (12th round)... NFL active Doyle, Jack / All-SBC Senior Bowl holds school record for receptions and receiving yards by a tight end, receptions by a freshman...finished career No. 2 on career receptions list for all positions... NFL active 2013-to date. Higbee, Tyler / All-America All C-USA holds school records for catches in a game and TD receptions in a game, a season and a career by a tight end... NFL Draft 2016 (4th round)... NFL active 2016-to date Reed, Max * / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame (member, inaugural class)... All-Kentucky OFFENSIVE LINE (VOTE FOR 5) Ashley, Buster / Consensus All-America All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-GFC Bixler, Brian / All-America Academic All-America pick. Caple, Clarence / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-KIAC All-Kentucky Carpenter, Chip / All-America OVC Half Century Team OVC 40th Anniversary Team All-OVC Carter, David / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... OVC Half Century Team OVC 40th Anniversary Team All-OVC NFL Draft 1977 (6th round)... NFL active Cook, Joe * / All-KIAC All-Kentucky Cummings, Rupert * / All-Kentucky Goodman, Patrick / All-America All-OVC WKUSports.com All-Century Team Supplemental Information 4

5 Hape, Andy / All-America Hardin, Jim Yogi / All-America st WKU football athlete to earn All-America honors on multiple occasions (3 times , 57, 58)... WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC Lamp, Forrest / All-America Senior Bowl All C-USA anchored an offensive line ranked among the best in the nation in scored TD on a lateral pass in C-USA championship game in NFL Draft 2017 (2nd round -- earliest selection ever for a Topper football athlete). Losey, Eric / All-America All-GFC Nollner, David / All-America All-OVC Price, Chris / Consensus All-America All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC All-GFC Ray, Brandon / Freshman All-America All C-USA Owns school record for total and consecutive starts (54 games) Satterly, Marvin / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... OVC Half Century Team OVC 40th Anniversary Team All-OVC Tiebout, Dean / All-America Walsh, Steve / All-America Walters, Pete / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC NFL active Yeksigian, Leo * / All-State All-Century Team Supplemental

6 DEFENSE DEFENSIVE LINE (VOTE FOR 4) Brame, Lawrence / All-America 1968, WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... OVC Defensive Player of the Year OVC Half Century Team OVC 40th Anniversary Team All-OVC set school record for career solo tackles... NFL Draft 1971 (16th round)... CFL active , Bushong, John / All-America All-OVC NFL Draft 1975 (8th round). NFL active , Cook, Joe * / All-KIAC All-Kentucky Cummings, Rupert * / All-Kentucky Downing, Howard Tip / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-Kentucky Evans, Donnie / All-America All-OVC Ford, Tim / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC ranks among career leaders in assisted tackles. Reed, Max * / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame (member, inaugural class)... All-Kentucky Schuster, Lonnie / OVC Defensive Player of the Year All-OVC Smith, Quanterus / All-America SBC Defensive Player of the Year All-SBC owns the top 2 tackles-for-loss and sacks single game numbers in the WKU record books; also ranks 2nd in both season and career sacks... NCAA 5th in tackles for loss and 8th in sacks Stansbury, Ed * / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-Kentucky Tandy, Keith / OVC 40th Anniversary Team All-OVC held the school season record for tackles-for-loss for 22 years (now 5th on that list). Towns, Tony / OVC Blue-Gray All-Star Game held the tackles-for-loss career record for 20 years (now 3rd); ranks 5th in all-time solo tackles and is 7th in career total tackles Wittman, Ben / All-America All-OVC ranks in Top 10 on both the season and career leaders list for tackles-for-loss. Yeksigian, Leo * / All-State WKUSports.com All-Century Team Supplemental Information 6

7 LINEBACKER (VOTE FOR 4) Boyd, Xavius / SBC Defensive Player of the Year 2013; All-SBC 2013; NCAA 19th in solo tackles and 25th in tackles for loss Barber, Jimmy / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC WKU s 1st Academic All-America selection. Coates, Sherrod / All-America All-GFC NFL active CFL active holds school season and career records for season and career tackles for loss, season and career sacks, and career forced fumbles... NCAA 17th in tackles for loss NCAA 12th in tackles for loss and 16th in sacks, Dandy, Erik / All-America 2001, All-GFC ranks among the Top 6 all-time in season and career total tackles, season and career solo tackles and season and career tackles for loss; 6th in career assisted tackles... NCAA 5th in total tackles in Foster, Russell / All-America Gray, Paul / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC NFL Draft 1984 (10th round)... NFL active 1987; CFL active set school record for both season (he ranks 1-3 on that list) and career assisted tackles -- both still WKU standards... also set a record for career fumbles recoveries (still #2 on that list); and, still ranks #2 on the records lists for season and career total tackles. Green, Rick / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... OVC Half Century Team All-OVC set school records for total tackles (career and season) and solo stops (career and season) that still stand 42 years later... and, set the mark for career assisted tackles that stood for 8 years. Keys, Eagle Buddy / 1942, WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... CFL active Lindsey, Dale / WKU Retired Jersey...All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... OVC Half Century Team OVC 40th Anniversary Team All-OVC NFL Draft 1965 (7th round)... NFL active Madon, Biff / OVC Defensive Player of the Year All-OVC ,. among the Top 10 on season and career lists for both total tackles and solo stops. Mutchler, John / 1963 All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... OVC Defensive Player of the Year All-OVC Thompson, Charles / All-America All-GFC Buck Buchanan Award finalist among the Top 10 in season and career lists for total tackles, solo tackles and tackles for loss, along withj career assists... NCAA 24th in total tackles and 25th in solo tackles, Wisham, Melvin / All-America All-OVC Buck Buchanan Award finalist ranked among the Top 10 on season and career lists for total tackles and solo tackles... NCAA 3rd in total tackles and 20th in tackles for loss All-Century Team Supplemental

8 DEFENSIVE BACK (VOTE FOR 4) Brazley, Carl / All-OVC NFL active CFL active , Burt, Jim / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... OVC Half Century Team OVC 40th Anniversary Team All-OVC NFL Draft 1965 (10th round)... AFL Draft 1965 (15th round). Note: Burt s 1st team selection on the ABC Sports Radio Tom Harmon All-America Defensive Team in 1964, featuring him (from a college division school) along with 10 others who all played for major schools, including Dick Butkus of Illinois. Dowling, Jonathan / All-SBC in a 3-way tie for the school record for forced fumbles in a season; ranks in the top 8 among all Hilltoppers in career, season and game pass interceptions along with season yards and return average as well as career passes broken up and forced fumbles... NCAA 5th in interceptions 2012; NCAA 1st in forced fumbles NFL Draft (7th round) NFL active Edwards, James / Consensus All-America All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... set school records for season and career interceptions (still 3rd on both lists)... NCAA 9th in interceptions Elrod, Turner * / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-Kentucky Jefferson, Joseph / All-America All-GFC Senior Bowl ranks among the leaders in season and career interceptions, season interception return yards and average per return; is also on the list of the best Toppers in both season and career passes defended... NFL Draft 2002 (3rd round)... NFL active NCAA 21st in interceptions Livers, Virgil * / WKU Retired Jersey... All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... OVC Defensive Player of the Year OVC Half Century Team OVC 40th Anniversary Team All-OVC holds school records that still stand for average interception return in both a season and a career... also tied Mike MCoy for career interception return yards (that stood for 27 years)... NFL Draft 1975 (4th round)... NFL active McCoy, Mike / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC set career record for interception return yards (tied by Virgil Livers the following year) that stood for 27 years; his season record for interception returns yards also stood for 27 years; and, set mark for average return yards in a career (still 3rd on that list)... NFL Draft 1974 (8th round). Meacham, Lamont / All-OVC his 85-yard interception return for a score in 1981 was the 3rd longest on record on the Hill; his game, season and career numbers for interception return yardage rank among the best for a Topper... NFL Draft 1982 (11th round)... CFL Active Mitchell, Mel / Consensus All-America All-America All-GFC Buck Buchanan Award finalist still holds the school record for career blocked kicks... NFL Draft 2002 (5th round)... NFL active Mullen, Davlin * / NFL Draft 1983 (8th round)... tied school record for fumble recoveries in a season (still 3rd on that list) and still among leaders for a career as well... NFL active WKUSports.com All-Century Team Supplemental Information 8

9 Pickens, Jim / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... All-OVC 1948 (the inaugural season for that league)... still holds the oldest standard in the school record books -- for interceptions in a game (4 vs. EKU, 1948). Poland, Hugh / WKU Athletic Hall of Fame. Sippio, Bobby / Consensus All-America All-America All-OVC NFL active still holds school record for both career and season pass interceptions as well as game, season and career return yards; his average per return numbers ranks #2 on both the season and career lists; also holds WKU standards for both season and career passes defended... NCAA 1st in passes defended, 3rd in interceptions and 11th in fumble recoveries, Thomas, Antonio / All-America All-GFC ranks 2nd in season interceptions and is 4th on the career list... NCAA 9th in interceptions in All-Century Team Supplemental

10 SPECIAL TEAMS/ALL-PURPOSE KICKER (VOTE FOR 1) James, Chris / All-America All-GFC holds school record for consecutive PAT- Ks made and shares record for most made in a game; also set school records for career scoring, field goals made and consecutive FGs made (still #2 on those lists); booted 2 of the 5 longest FGs in school history... NCAA 11th in FGs and 22nd in scoring in 2005; NCAA 12th in FGs in Martinez, Peter / All-America All-OVC set record for career field goals made and stills holds a share of the record for PAT-Ks made in a game... NCAA 10th in FGs 2000; NCAA 14th on FGs Poisel, Jeff / All-America held record for both career and season PAT-Ks made; shares record for PAT-Ks made in a game; and, also held the record for consecutive PAT-Ks made (still among the leaders in all 3 categories)... NCAA 15th in FGs and 23rd in scoring Schwettman, Garrett / Lou Groza Award semi-finalist All C-USA NCAA 20th in scoring 2014; NCAA 1st in FG percentage holds school record for career and season points scored; also holds records for career field goals made, consecutive FGs made, PAT-Ks made for a season and for a career; shares standard for PAT-Ks made in a game. PUNTER (VOTE FOR 1) Brakefield, Hendrix / School record-holder for career punt average and ranks in the top 5 in career punts and punt yardage plus season punt average. Claybourn, Brian / All-America All-GFC CFL active NCAA 19th in punting average 2001; NCAA 19th in punting average 2003; NCAA 4th in punting in one of just 4 punters to kick for more than 9,000 yards... broke long-standing school records for game, season and career punting average... Johnson, Charlie / All-OVC NCAA 7th in punting average 1973; NCAA 6th in punting set school records for season and career punting average plus long punt (still the standard 45 years later); only punter in school history to record 2 punts of more than 75 yards. RETURNER (VOTE FOR 2) Andrews, Antonio * / All-America Senior Bowl SBC Player of the Year SBC Offensive Player of the Year All-SBC Paul Hornung Award finalist Doak Walker Award semi-finalist NFL active NCAA 15th in punt returns and 18 in KO returns, ranks 3rd in school history in both KO returns and KO return yardage... one of just 2 in school history to total 200-plus KO return yards in a game... Livers, Virgil * / WKU Retired Jersey... All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... OVC Defensive Player of the Year OVC Half Century Team OVC 40th Anniversary Team All- WKUSports.com All-Century Team Supplemental Information 10

11 OVC still (43 years later) holds school season records for punts returned and both game & season return yardage plus return TDs... NFL Draft 1975 (4th round)... NFL active Mullen, Davlin * / NFL Draft 1983 (8th round)... NFL active NCAA 1st in KO return average set school records for both career (still a WKU standard) and season KO return average... one of just three Hilltoppers to return two kicks for TDs in a season... one of just two Toppers to record a 100-yard return for a TD. Stockton, Joey * / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... still holds school records for career and game KO returns and was 1st Topper to total 2,000-plus yards in KO returns... remains the only Hilltopper to score two TDs on KO returns in a single game (1 for 100 yds and 1 for just 42 yards) and is one of only two to return one 100 yards for a score... NCAA 22nd in KO returns average 1995; NCAA 6th in KO return average Towner, Kylen / finished career with school records for KO return yards and TDs on returns... also set school standard for KO return average in a season... NCAA 12th in KO return TDs 2014; NCAA 1st in KO returns average and 16th in combined kick returns NCAA 3rd in combined kick returns ALL-PURPOSE (VOTE FOR 1) Arnold, Joe * / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... the 1st Hilltopper to amass 5,000-plus all-purpose yards (still one of just 4 on that elite list); and, the 1st to account for 2,000-plus in a season. Andrews, Antonio * / All-America SBC Player of the Year SBC Offensive Player of the Year All-SBC Paul Hornung Award finalist Doak Walker Award semifinalist NFL active one of just 2 Toppers to run up 6,000-plus yards in all-purpose yards; and is the only one to rack up more than 3,000 in a single season; also owns the school record for average all-purpose yards in a game for a season -- he ranks both #1 and #2 on that list... NCAA 1st in all-purpose yards and 1st in all-purpose yards per game 2012 and Rainey, Bobby * / All-America SBC Offensive Player of the Year All-SBC NFL active holds school record for career all-purpose yardage; ranks #3 and #4 on the season leaders list and is #4, #5, and #7 on the season per game average for all-purpose running. Stockton, Joey * / All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... NCAA 5th in allpurpose running 1995; NCAA 23rd in all-purpose running in set school and NCAA records for allpurpose yards in a game (467) at Austin Peay in Taggart, Willie * / WKU Retired Jersey... All-America WKU Athletic Hall of Fame... Walter Payton Award finalist the only quarterback on the WKU career leaders list for all-purpose running (ranking #7). * on ballot at more than one position Abbreviations CFL (Canadian Football League)... C-USA (Conference USA)... GFC (Gateway Football Conference)... KIAC (Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)... NFL (National Football League)... OVC (Ohio Valley Conference)... SIAA (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association)... SBC (Sun Belt Conference) 11 All-Century Team Supplemental