Pitt's Hugh Green Added To 2014 Football Championship Game Legends Class
PITTSBURGH (93-7 The FAN) - The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced their 2014 Class of Legends for its 10th Annual Dr. Pepper Football Championship Game on Dec. 6, and Pitt's own Hugh Green is part of this year's class.
Along with Green, former Virginia and Navy head coach George Welsh, Florida State's two-time consensus All-American linebacker Derrick Brooks and Syracuse All-American wide receiver Art Mink make up the rest of the class.
Green is a 1996 inductee into the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.
In the announcement, the ACC listed the following write-up of Green's career achievements.
"Green (1977-80), one of the most honored defensive players in Pitt history, is a four-time All-American who earned consensus first-team All-America honors in each of his final three seasons as a defensive end. He led Pitt to a four-year 39-8-1 record. As a senior in 1980, he was named the Walter Camp Player of the Year, the Maxwell Award Player of the Year, the UPI National Player of the Year and The Sporting News Player of the Year. Additionally, he was also presented with the Lombardi Award as the nation's best lineman or interior linebacker. He was also voted the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy, at the time the highest finish be a defensive player in the history of the Heisman Trophy. He accumulated 460 tackles and 53 sacks in his collegiate career and Pitt retired his jersey, No. 99, at halftime of his final home game in 1980. Selected by Tampa Bay with the seventh overall pick in the 1981 NFL Draft, he played 11 seasons in the NFL, the first five with the Buccaneers and the last six with Miami. A two-time All-Pro and Pro Bowl selection as a linebacker (1982-83) he was named to the NFL's All-Rookie team in 1981. Inducted into the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame in 1996, he was named the fifth greatest college football player of all-time by the collegefootballnews.com. Named to the all-time All-American team by The Sporting News in 1983, Green was ranked No. 14 among ESPN's Top 25 College Football Players in history in 2007, and was also named to Sports Illustrated's College Football all-century team in 1999. Originally a native of Natchez, Miss., he is now retired and resides in Fayette, Miss."
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