{"id":67817,"date":"2016-04-29T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67817"},"modified":"2016-05-18T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T22:59:32","slug":"andersen-edmond-honored-by-nff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67817","title":{"rendered":"Andersen, Edmond honored by NFF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ty Edmond (19)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ty Edmond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Defensive Lineman, Reserve Quarterback Selected to Hampshire Honor Society<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Colgate footballers Ben Andersen and Ty Edmond were named to the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame\u2019s Hampshire Honor Society.<\/p>\n

Andersen after the season was named to the 14-man Academic All-Patriot League team for the second straight year, and then added his name to the FCS Athletics Directors Academic All-Star Team.<\/p>\n

For the season, the defensive lineman posted 11 tackles. He batted down a pair of pass attempts, blocked a kick, contributed one quarterback hurry and shared a sack. Andersen started in the 2015 opener at Navy and played in all26 games over his last two seasons.<\/p>\n

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Ben Andersen (91)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ben Andersen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Edmond this week was a multiple winner during the 2016 Colgate Awards Convocation. He earned the Bernard and Sydell Citron Pre-Medical Scholastic Prize, the John T. (Jack) Mitchell Memorial Award and the William E. and Nellie K. Edmonston Neuroscience Award.<\/p>\n

The reserve quarterback also held for all Colgate field goals and extra-point kicks. He was a double 4.0 grade-point average honoree on the Colgate Raider Academic Honor Roll.<\/p>\n

Qualifications for membership in the NFF Hampshire Honor Society include:<\/p>\n

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  • Being a starter or a significant contributor in one’s last year of eligibility (or a senior who has declared for the NFL Draft)\u00a0 at an NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision, Division II, Division III or an NAIA college or university;<\/li>\n
  • Achieving a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average throughout entire course of undergraduate study; and<\/li>\n
  • Meeting all NCAA\/NAIA-mandated progress towards degree requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Andersen is graduating in May with a degree in economics, while Edmond is graduating with a neuroscience degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Defensive Lineman, Reserve Quarterback Selected to Hampshire Honor Society Colgate footballers Ben Andersen and Ty Edmond were named to the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame\u2019s Hampshire Honor Society. Andersen after the season was named to the 14-man Academic All-Patriot League team for the second straight year, and then added his name to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,94,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-sports","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hDP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Edmond_Ty.jpg?fit=3155%2C4611&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}