Sports News: Winter 2005-06

Thursday, January 12, 2006

MORAVIAN HEAD FOOTBALL COACH SCOT DAPP TO SERVE AS
ASSISTANT COACH AT 2006 HULA BOWL

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Moravian College head football coach Scot Dapp, who has served as the president of the American Football Coaches Association for the past year, has one duty left as president of the organization even though he has already turned the gavel over to new president Mel Tjeerdsma of Northwest Missouri State University. Coach Dapp, a native of Boyertown Pennsylvania, will serve as one of the assistant coaches for the 2006 Hula Bowl on Saturday, January 21st at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Dapp, who helped Moravian to a 7-4 record this past fall and the 2005 Eastern College Athletic Conference Southwest Bowl Championship, will be an assistant coach on the East Squad. The head coach of the East team is Tommy Tuberville, the head coach of Auburn University and the 2004 AFCA Division I-A Coach of the Year. Also on the East sideline as assistants will be Skip Holtz, head coach at East Carolina University, and Jerry Moore, head coach at 2005 NCAA Division I-AA National Champion Appalachian State University and the 2005 AFCA Division I-AA Coach of the Year.

Heading the West Team will be University of Washington head coach Tyrone Willingham, who will be assisted by Dick Tomey of San Jose State University, Chuck Martin of NCAA Division II National Champion Grand Valley State University and Bob Berezowitz of NCAA Division III Runner-Up the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Martin and Berezowitz were the 2005 AFCA Division II and Division III Coaches of the Year.

Dapp, who just returned from the 2006 AFCA Convention in Dallas, Texas, will head to Honolulu on January 14th for a week of practices. The game will be aired on ESPN2 on Saturday, January 21st at 7:00 p.m. EST.

In January of 2005 at their annual convention held in Louisville, Kentucky, the AFCA elected Dapp as their president. The AFCA was founded in 1922 and now has over 10,000 members. Coach Dapp was the 81st President of the Association and only the fifth Division III coach to hold the position.

Former AFCA Presidents include people like Bear Bryant (Alabama), Bo Schembechler (Michigan), Vince Dooley (Georgia), Eddie Robinson (Grambling) and LaVell Edwards (Brigham Young).

Dapp was elected to the AFCA Board of Trustees in 1999 and is one of two Division III coaches that serve on the Board. His term as president ran until January of 2006 where he presided over the Association's convention in Dallas. The final duty for the out-going AFCA president is to be an assistant coach at the Hula Bowl, a tradition that started in 1997.