Texas Tech University Athletics
Dykes Named Touchdowner of the Year
May 11, 2001 | Football
May 11, 2001
LUBBOCK, Texas - The Touchdown Club of Houston will honor former Texas Tech University football coach Spike Dykes as its Touchdowner of the Year for 2001.
The award, which will be given for the 36th time, is given to the person who has helped further football in the state of Texas at either the high school, college or professional level -- or any combination of the three. Dykes has been well-received on both the college and high school levels.
Previous winners of the Touchdowner of the Year Award include Darrell Royal, Sammy Baugh, Dutch Meyer, John David Crow, Doak Walker, Bill Yeoman, Roger Staubach, Frank Broyles, Gordon Wood, Tom Landry, Grant Teaff, Dave Campbell, Earl Campbell and R.C. Slocum.
Speakers for the roast-and-toast gala will be Dave Campbell of Texas Football magazine, former Tech and Texas football coach David McWilliams, former Tech athletic director T. Jones, former BYU coach and close Dykes friend LaVell Edwards, Rice coach Ken Hatfield and former UT head coach Darrell Royal, who hired Dykes as an assistant in Austin.
Also presented at the event will be the All-Greater Houston preseason high school team.
The dinner will be at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 16, at the JW Marriott, 5150 Westheimer, which is in the Galleria area of Houston near West Loop 610. Tickets are $35 per seat, tables of 10 are $350 apiece. Front row tables, complete with signage, are available at $500 per table.
For more information, call the Touchdown Club's message line at 281-754-4867, or e-mail the club at HouTDclub@houston.rr.com. The club's mailing address is: Touchdown Club of Houston, 13280 Northwest Freeway, Suite F, PMB 367, Houston, Texas 77040-6003.
The Touchdown Club is a non-profit, civic organization that sponsors football-related events in the fall. Other events for 2001 include LSU Night with Nick Saban on July 30, the annual Rice-Houston Bayou Bucket luncheon on Aug. 30, the Texas A&M-Notre Dame Luncheon on Sept. 28 with Rudy Ruttiger, about whom the movie, Rudy, was filmed, NFL Night on Oct. 17 with new Houston Texans head coach Dom Capers, the annual Football Scholar-Athlete Luncheon on Nov. 7, the Humana Texas-Texas A&M Luncheon featuring Mack Brown and R.C. Slocum on Nov. 15, and the annual High School Awards Night on Dec. 12, which honors the top offensive and defensive high school players in Greater Houston as well as the area's coach of the year. It is the largest event of its kind in the nation.
The club also will have two golf tournaments to raise money for its Scholarship Fund and for its Inner-City Weight Room Refurbishing Fund. The first golf outing will be the Bayou Bucket Shootout between alumni of Rice and Houston, which will be Aug. 31 at the Sienna Plantation Golf Course in Sugar Land. The second will be the Texas-Texas A&M Shootout at Whispering Pines in Trinity, Texas, which will be between alumni of UT and A&M on Nov. 16.
All donations to the TD Club are tax-deductible.
