Former Independence Bowl Chairman Pesky Hill
To Recieve All-American Football Foundation's Bud Dudley Award

March 20, 2007

Shreveport, La. – Pesky Hill, the 2000 Independence Bowl chairman, will receive the Bud Dudley Bowl Executive Award on Tuesday evening at the All-American Football Foundation’s 84th Banquet of Champions held at the Jackson Hilton.

Hill, a native of Shreveport and a 1972 graduate of Northwestern State University, is a longtime supporter of the PetroSun Independence Bowl, having chaired the 2000 game between Mississippi State and Texas A&M, which is one of the most memorable Independence Bowl contests in history. Mississippi State edged the Aggies by a score of 43-41 in overtime in the midst of a snowstorm on New Year’s Eve. The game is now famously known as the “Snow Bowl.”

Hill serves on the bowl’s team selection committee and has been since 1994. He is also a former executive committee member and is a Life Member on the bowl’s Board of Directors. Hill also helped lead the bowl’s title sponsor search committee prior to the bowl’s partnership with PetroSun.

“I am truly humbled to receive this award, especially when you see people such as Mike McCarthy, Jack Lee, Carl Mikovich, and Orvis Sigler that have been deeply involved with the Independence Bowl and have received it before me,” said Hill. “I am accepting it on behalf of all of the great volunteers of this organization as well.”

Hill served as the sports information director at his alma mater from 1972-76, Oklahoma State from 1976-78, and then at TCU from 1978-81. Hill also received the Elmore (Scoop) Hudgins Sports Information Director Award in 2001.

The Allstate Sugar Bowl’s James Landis will also receive the Bud Dudley Bowl Executive Award as more than 20 individual awards will be handed out at the banquet.
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