Hatfield voted president of coaching association by peers

Hatfield
voted president of coaching association by peers

Ken Hatfield,
head football coach at Rice, will lead the American Football
Coaches Association in 2004 as president of the organization.

Hatfield

Hatfield, who
moves up from first vice-president of the association, succeeds
outgoing president Phillip Fulmer of the University of Tennessee.
Hatfield was elected president by members attending the
AFCA’s 2004 convention in Orlando, Fla., in January.

The AFCA, founded
in 1922 by Amos Alonzo Stagg, John Heisman and others, has
more than 10,000 members from all levels of the profession.
According to its constitution, the AFCA was formed, in part,
to “maintain the highest possible standards in football
and the coaching profession” and to “provide a
forum for the discussion and study of all matters pertaining
to football and coaching.”

Hatfield is the
third coach from Rice to serve as president of the AFCA.
Hatfield joins Jess Neely (1956) and Heisman (1924) as the
Owls head coaches to lead the association.

Hatfield was
first elected to the AFCA’s board of trustees in 1997.