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Touchdown Club to hear former UD coach Lude 10:43 a.m., Sept. 20, 2004--Mike Lude, who served as a University of Delaware assistant football coach under Dave Nelson from 1951-62, will address the Blue Hen Touchdown Club at noon, Friday, Oct. 1, at the Holiday Inn in Newark. Lude became a successful head coach at Colorado State University and director of athletics at Kent State University, the University of Washington and Auburn University after leaving UD. He is the co-author, along with Seattle sportswriter Bill Knight, of a new biography titled Walking the Line, which relates his humble beginnings as the son of a farmer in rural Michigan to his rise as one of the nation’s most prominent college athletics directors. The book’s foreword was written by ABC-TV sportscaster Keith Jackson. While at UD, Lude was instrumental in helping Nelson develop the famed Delaware Wing-T football formation. During his tenure at UD, Lude also served as an assistant professor of physical education and was an assistant to the director of admissions. In the book, Lude, the 1998 winner of the James Corbett Award presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, offers an insight into the narrow line an athletic director walks when trying to appease coaches, university administrators and fans. He credits those who helped him obtain success but also tells how boosters and administrators can make the job of director of college athletics both frustrating and cumbersome. The 272-page book is available at the University of Delaware Bookstore in the Perkins Student Center or online at [www.huskyfever.com] or [www.mikelude.com]. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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