{"id":120,"date":"2010-08-03T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=120"},"modified":"2010-08-03T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T17:30:00","slug":"nc-states-ted-brown-one-of-12-acc-legends-to-be-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"NC State&#8217;s Ted Brown one of 12 ACC legends to be honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grfx.cstv.com\/photos\/schools\/ncst\/sports\/m-footbl\/auto_action\/5587651.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 227px;\" src=\"http:\/\/grfx.cstv.com\/photos\/schools\/ncst\/sports\/m-footbl\/auto_action\/5587651.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>ACC NEWS RELEASE &#8211; Led by the Atlantic Coast Conference\u2019s all-time career rushing leader in NC State\u2019s Ted Brown, Georgia Tech\u2019s only three-time first-team All-America in Randy Rhino, and one of only five players in ACC history to have been named ACC Player of the Year twice in Clemson\u2019s Steve Fuller, the ACC Tuesday announced its Class of 2010 Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game Legends.<\/p>\n<p>The Legends will be honored at this year\u2019s Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game weekend. They will be honored at the ACC Night of Legends event on Friday, Dec. 3, will also be recognized during ceremonies at Bank of America Stadium for the 6th Annual Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship, which has a 7:45 p.m. kickoff on Dec. 4 and will be nationally televised by ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the three mentioned above as 2010 ACC Legends this year are Boston College\u2019s Tony Thurman, one of the leading pass interceptors in college football history; Maryland\u2019s Darryl Hill, a standout wide receiver who was the first African-American football player in the Atlantic Coast Conference; and a trio of some of the best defensive linemen to ever play college football in Florida State defensive end Peter Boulware, the 1996 ACC Defensive Player of the Year; Miami defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy, an eight-time NFL Pro Bowl performer; and Virginia Tech defensive end Cornell Brown, who was named National Defensive Player of the Year in 1995 by The Football News.<\/p>\n<p>Completing this year\u2019s Legends Class is a quartet of running backs any coach would love to have on their team in Duke\u2019s Jay Wilkinson, the 1963 ACC Player of the Year; North Carolina\u2019s Ethan Horton, chosen by the Associated Press as the ACC\u2019s 1984 Player of the Year; Virginia\u2019s Barry Word, the 1985 ACC Player of the Year; and Wake Forest\u2019s Larry Hopkins, who led the Deacons to the 1970 ACC Football Championship and then led the ACC in rushing in 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACC NEWS RELEASE &#8211; Led by the Atlantic Coast Conference\u2019s all-time career rushing leader in NC State\u2019s Ted Brown, Georgia Tech\u2019s only three-time first-team All-America&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}