Heisman Winner Mike Rozier to Participate in TCNJ Homecoming
10/17/2008
SCG Sales Manager Lee Defreitas (right) presents TCNJ Heach Coach Eric Hamilton with a commemorative Trophy Turf football
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Heisman Winner Mike Rozier will join The College of New Jersey football team as they host William Paterson University on Saturday, October 18 for the school’s homecoming game on Lions’ Stadium’s new TigerTurf field. Set for a 2:00 p.m. kickoff, Rozier along with college president, Dr. R. Barbara Gitenstein and the team’s captains will participate in a pre-game coin toss.
Nebraska’s second Heisman winner and a recent inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame, Rozier became a Heisman Trophy Winner in 1983, when he rushed for a school-record 2,148 yards and 29 touchdowns. His 4,780 rushing yards lead the Nebraska and Big Eight Conference career charts and his 52 touchdowns trail only Heisman winner Eric Crouch.
A Maxwell Award Winner, Rozier also won the Walter Camp Award and was one of six Huskers named to Sports Illustrated's 85-player All-Century Team. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2007.
In addition to participating in the pre-game ceremony, Rozier will be on hand to sign autographs and meet the fans in conjunction with the homecoming festivities.
The turf, known as Trophy Turf™, features specialty yarns engineered with TigerTurf’s new Springback and Capsulate profiles. The profiles were created to heighten performance, fiber recovery and system longevity, and to deliver a more realistic stadium quality look and feel, according to TigerTurf director Charles Fleishman.
Ohio-based Sports Construction Group installed the school’s new, advanced technology Trophy Turf™ this summer as a result of lead findings in some old synthetic field systems in the northeast, including TCNJ’s old AstroTurf.
TigerTurf is a global synthetic turf manufacturer of products for sport, landscape and play purposes at all levels, serving customers in 85+ countries. Sports Construction Group is a sport field contractor specializing in synthetic and natural turf installation.
The College of New Jersey is one of many schools in the northeast that have recently opted for TigerTurf systems to meet their high performance, multi-purpose athletic and recreational needs.
