Glass, Joos Recognized by All-American Football Foundation
5/15/2007 12:00:00 AM | Football
May 15, 2007
WACO, Texas - Bill Glass, former Baylor football standout, and Nick Joos, associate athletic director of communications, will be recognized by the All-American Football Foundation at the 85th Banquet of Champions in Dallas on May 17, the organization announced recently.
The group is honoring Joos with the Scoop Hudgins Outstanding Sports Information Director award and Glass is receiving the All-American Football Legend award.
Glass was a unanimous consensus All-American guard on one of Baylor's greatest football teams. His senior season, 1956, he helped the Bears to a 9-2 record and a Sugar Bowl victory over previously undefeated Tennessee. He was voted the Houston Post's 1956 SWC Most Valuable Player.
Drafted in the first round of the 1957 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions with the 12th overall pick, Glass played with the Lions until 1961. He played for the Cleveland Browns from 1962 through 1968, earning four Pro Bowl invitations as a defensive end.
Glass became one of the nation's most noted evangelists following his pro football career, and today continues to run his Champions for Life ministry from his Dallas-area home. Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1985, Glass was voted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame in 1960.
Joos directs the media relations efforts for the department's 18 sport programs and is the primary contact for football. Joos oversees a staff of five full-time assistants, and intern and a secretary and handles all communications efforts for the athletics department outside of the sport programs. He is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), Football Writers Association of America and the Texas Sportswriters Association.
