Woody Durham gets another Hall honor

North Carolina Woody Durham gets another Hall honor Woody Durham SHARE: Posted at 12:01 p.m. Dallas Woody Durham, the voice of University of North Carolina football as well as basketball for 40 years before stepping away this summer, has been named the 2011 recipient of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fames Chris Schenkel Award.According to the NFF, the Chris Schenkel Award recognizes a sports broadcaster who has enjoyed a long as well as distinguished career broadcasting college football with approach to ties to a specific university.Durham has called play-by-play on more than 1,800 football as well as mens basketball broadcasts on the Tar Heel Sports Network since 1971."Woody has been synonymous with Tar Heel football for four decades," said NFF President as well as CEO Steve Hatchell. "An unusually talented broadcaster, his long list of honors reflects his unique ability to make fans feel as they are standing on the sidelines."Durham retired in April, 2011. In 1981, Durham was named vice president as well as executive sports director at Tar Heel Sports Marketing as well as has been named North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year twelve times, most recently in 2006. He received the "Carolina Princess Gem" Award for his 1,000th play-by-play broadcast of a North Carolina event from the university in 1994. In 2000, Durham was given the William R. Davie Award, the highest honor given by UNC trustees.Durhan was given the Marvin "Skeeter" Francis Awar! d in 200 2 for service to the Atlantic Coast Conference, as well as was inducted into the North Carolina Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 2004. On May 19, 2005, he was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, commemorating North Carolinians who have made significant contributions to the sports world.Durham was born August 8, 1941, in Mebane as well as grew up in Albemarle. He began his broadcasting career at age 16 at WZKY radio, later graduating from UNC in 1963 with an AB degree in radio, television as well as motion picture.He was the sports director at WUNC-TV from 1961-62 as a student at UNC. After graduation, Durham worked one year at WBTW-TV in Florence, S.C., as well as then as sports director at WFMY-TV in Greensboro, where he remained until 1977. He served as the director of sports as well as sports development for WPTF-TV in Raleigh, from 1977 to 1981.Past recipients of the Chris Schenkel Award include:1996 - Chris Schenkel (ABC Sports)1997 - Jack Cristil (Mississippi State University) 1998 - Max Falkenstein (University of Kansas) 1999 - Jack Fleming (West Virginia University) 2000 - Ray Christensen (University of Minnesota) 2001 - Frank Fallon (Baylor University) 2002 - Bob Brooks (University of Iowa) 2003 - Larry Munson (University of Georgia) 2004 - Bob Robertson (Washington State University) 2005 - Tony Roberts (University of Notre Dame) 2006 - Johnny Holiday (University of Maryland) 2007 - Bill Hillgrove (University of Pittsburgh) 2008 - Bob Curtis (University of Idaho) & Dick Galiette (Yale University) 2009 - Larry Zimmer (University of Colorado) 2010 - Joe Starkey (University of California)