{"id":2123,"date":"2014-07-29T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/dev-mag\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:52:40","slug":"huddling-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2014\/07\/29\/huddling-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddling Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2188\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/huddlingup-508x600.jpg\" alt=\"huddlingup\" width=\"350\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/huddlingup-508x600.jpg 508w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/huddlingup-84x100.jpg 84w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/huddlingup-315x371.jpg 315w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/huddlingup.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Eagle great and College Football Hall of Fame member Tracy Ham has been named Associate Director of Athletics at Georgia Southern University. Ham will work on special projects related to Eagle Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel this is a great hire for Georgia Southern,\u201d said Director of Athletics Tom Kleinlein. \u201cSo much of where we are today as a university is because of what guys like Tracy Ham did in the past. He will help us teach new fans about Georgia Southern\u2019s football roots, while helping keep former players connected to what\u2019s going on in Statesboro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kleinlein said he knew of Ham\u2019s legacy and was impressed with his diverse skill set. \u201cTracy will bring a valuable perspective to the university,\u201d said Kleinlein. \u201cHe was a huge help in our recent football coaching search and has been big in helping the EFAA (Eagle Football Alumni Association) with projects around Georgia Southern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a quarterback at Georgia Southern, Ham guided the Eagles to two Division 1-AA national championships. Ham is just one of two football players in Georgia Southern history to have his number retired.<\/p>\n<p>Ham was named to the 1986 Associated Press and Kodak All-America teams and was chosen the \u2018College Player of the Year\u2019 for three consecutive years by the <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em> (1984-86). Ham remains the only player in college football history to run for 3,000 yards and pass or 5,000 in a career, and was the first Division I-AA player to both run and pass for 1,000 yards in a season.<\/p>\n<p>Ham would go on to play 13 years in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He earned the CFL Most Valuable Player Award in 1989, after becoming the first quarterback to rush for 1,000 yards and throw for 4,000 yards in the same season.<\/p>\n<p>The former All-American was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2007. He was also selected for induction into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2010, and the state of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsav.com\/story\/25971539\/a-visit-with-former-gsu-football-great-tracy-ham-now-associate-ad-for-the-eagles\" target=\"_blank\">For more on Ham\u2019s Georgia Southern legacy<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Fame Quarterback Named Associate AD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-summer-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}