Academy Footballer Gets College Hall of Fame Nod

March 21, 2006

Chad Hennings, a former Air Force Academy lineman, is on the ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. He is one of 77 players and seven coaches listed on the 2006 ballot. Hennings, an academic all-American as well as a former A-10 pilot during the 1991 Gulf War after his graduation from the academy, played nine years in the National Football League with the Dallas Cowboys.

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