February 4, 2006

For Immediate Release Contact/by Fred Baer Phone: 650-345-4114

California Community College Football Coaches Association Public Relations
(Also College of San Mateo sports information, 1961-2006)

San Mateo Equals Record With Second Hall Selection:
Former California CC Players Madden & Moon Named to Pro Football Hall of Fame

John Madden from College of San Mateo and Warren Moon out of West Los Angeles College were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday (Feb. 4).

Madden, who coached the Oakland Raiders to a Super Bowl title, follows another former CSM player from the 1950’s into the Hall, Bill Walsh – who won three Super Bowls as coach of the 49ers.

San Mateo stands out over other colleges with a third NFL head coach with a Super Bowl ring, former CSM coach and recently retired Dick Vermeil (Chiefs), as a future Hall of Fame candidate. Vermeil was also a player and coach at Napa JC.

Madden started his coaching career at a California CC, Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria (as an assistant coach and then the head coach) in the early 1960’s.

Moon became the first black quarterback selected to the Hall. He was a record-setting quarterback at West LA in 1974-75

They will be inducted in Canton, Ohio, on the weekend of Aug. 5-6.

Notes: Sixteen former JC players, thirteen from California, are now in the Hall of Fame. San Mateo, Cerritos, and Compton share the record, each with two former players. (See chart.)

 Baer Facts:

-- Former California CC players have had great success as NFL coaches and administrators.
In addition to Madden, Walsh, current Washington coach Joe Gibbs, and former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, several 2005 NFL head coaches are former California Community College players: Herman Edwards (Monterey Peninsula), John Fox (Southwestern), Mike Martz (San Diego Mesa), and Vermeil.

CSM trivia notes: Former CSM coach Doug Scovil defeated then Allan Hancock assistant coach John Madden’s team in the 1961 Prune Bowl in San Jose. Dick Vermeil got his first college coaching position in 1963 when Scovil left CSM to become the backfield coach at Navy. There Scovil tutored Roger Staubach, out of New Mexico JC, to become the first JC transfer to win the Heisman trophy. (O.J. Simpson of CCSF was the second.)

--Three of the four current Pac-10 coaches in California are former California CC players: USC’s Pete Carroll (College of Marin), Cal’s Jeff Tedford (Cerritos), and Stanford’s Walt Harris (San Mateo). Harris and Walsh currently provide Stanford a head coach and athletic director with San Mateo roots.

New England QB Tom Brady often publicly credits another former CSM head coach, Tom Martinez, for off-season coaching help. Brady, a product of Serra High School (located a mile from the CSM campus) often worked out with Martinez at CSM during his high school, college, and post-collegiate time at home. Madden has made several mentions of this during his ABC telecasts of New England games.

6 former College of San Mateo players / coaches with 15 Super Bowl rings:

--Bill Walsh, CSM player: San Francisco 49ers Coach (3)

--John Madden, CSM player: Oakland Raiders Coach (1)

--Neal Dahlen, CSM player (MVP) and assistant coach: San Francisco 49ers Staff/Player Personnel (5), Denver Broncos General Manager (2)

--Dick Vermeil, CSM assistant coach: St. Louis Rams (1)

--Steve Shafer, CSM assistant and head coach: Baltimore Ravens Assistant Head Coach (1)

--Bill Ring, CSM player: San Francisco 49ers player 1981-86 (2)

(Three players from the 1950’s -- Walsh, Madden, and Dahlen -- account for 11 rings; Dahlen has a record 7 alone).

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