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The Flying Wedge Award is one of the NCAA’s highest honors. It is awarded to an individual who exemplifies outstanding leadership and service to the NCAA. The flying wedge was used in the early days of
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and became a symbol of the origin of the NCAA in 1906. There is a life-size sculpture of the flying wedge in the NCAA Hall of Champions in Indianapolis and a reproduction is awarded as The Flying Wedge Award. Ironically, the flying wedge formation was outlawed in college football in 1894 because it was highly dangerou

The award is given by the
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Leadership Advisory Board of Directors and there have been ten recipients: * Richard Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America * Thomas Curley, president and chief executive officer,
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*Stevie Eller and
Karl Eller Karl Eller (June 20, 1928 – March 10, 2019) was an American businessman and entrepreneur. Early life Eller grew up in Tucson, Arizona. He played football collegiately at the University of Arizona where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Del ...
, chairman and chief executive officer, The Eller Company *James T. Morris, executive director, United Nations World Food Program *Edwin A. Lupberger, president, Nesher Investments, LLC * Reverend Edward A. Malloy, president emeritus,
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*Marion B. Peavey, senior vice president for development and college relations,
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, and executive director emeritus, NCAA Foundation *
George M. Steinbrenner III George Michael Steinbrenner III (July 4, 1930July 13, 2010) was an American businessman who was the principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees from 1973 until his death in 2010. He was the longest-serving own ...
, principal owner,
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* Randall L. Tobias, ambassador and former chief executive officer of Eli Lilly and Company


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