Men's Awards
Below is a list of Cadet earned awards for the listed academic year. Special note is to be made for the Koehn and Murphy awards, named after, and in honor and memory of Danial Murphy (2003) and Kim Koehn (1973), both of whom exhibited such a love of our sport that so played a part in their lives that their families and teammates wished to preserved their memories when their lives were cut short.
Other than this award, as of this writing, there are three other ways we have honored rugby grads who have joined the spectators in the stands:
- Latorra Fund, A true Endowment Fund created in memory of . The Men's team is eligible to annually use the interest.
- Laura Ashley Piper (92) died in Iraq and whose family set up a women's rugby fund at the AOG (the fund was later transferred to the Endowment and folded into the women's Operational Fund)
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- Adrianna Maria Vorderbruggen, A graduate who lost her life in Afghanistan while serving in the AF OSI.
As sometimes happens with changing of coaches and administrations, these details get lost, so where the award was not given out by name, but another 'named' award was given, a 'best fit' for the honoree is place into the chart below. The details for each award that guided the 'best fit' are kept on this site for posterity: Murphy Award and Koehn Award
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| 1985 | Mike Murray | Wayne Miller | Eric Johnson | ||
| 1984 | John Savage | Bob Desantis | Mark Knofczyski | ||
| 1983 | <no one> | <no one> | Joe Barkate | ||
| 1982 | James Koehn | Dave Tachuk | Jim Taiclet, Joe Brennen | ||
| 1981 | <no one> | <no one> | Tom Robinson, Dane Marolt | ||
| 1980 | Tom Jones | Kevin Nagie | J Sirote, Steve Miller | ||
| 1979 | Tru Eyre | Schulz | John Golden, Tru Eyre | ||
| 1978 | Dave Winiger | Keith Wilkinson | Keith Wilkinson | ||
| 1977 | Ed Thomas | Barney Ballenger | Ed Thomas | ||
| 1976 | Jim Carter | Rich Carlson | Ed Thomas | ||
| 1975 | R. Sheppard | D Woock | |||
| 1974 | Bob Arnold | Gary Read | |||
| 1973 | Bill Diffly | Jim Yanigloss | |||
| 1972 | Bob Rice | Carl Stanberry | |||
| 1971 | Sean Edris | Dave McDougall | |||
| 1970 | Gary Schmidt | Dennis Leuthauser | |||
| 1969 | Bob Bennett | Les Dyer |
