The North Texas Lettermen’s Club is trying to put together a program where they will honor all former football players during one of the home football games this season. Matt Phillips’ vision is to make this a big part of the Fouts Field Finale. The goal is to remember former players who fought hard for North Texas on the gridiron in order to give present fans a sense of Fouts Field history.

Phillips is working on contacting former players to get them to participate in the event. There are so many memories former players can give to present North Texas Football Fans. He is hoping to hear from any football player to make this dream a reality. 

Tentative schedule looks like this; Sept 11^th against Out of Conference opponent Rice, North Texas will honor players from 2000-2009. 

Sunbelt Conference opponent Louisiana-Lafayette, Oct. 2^nd, will honor players from 1990-1999.

The next weekend against SBC opponent Arkansas State, Oct. 9^th,  players from the 1980-1989 will be honored. This will also be the Family Weekend game.

SBC opponent Florida International, Oct 16^th players from the 1970-1979 era will be honored. This is also the Homecoming Game.

SBC opponent Troy, Nov 6^th will feature players from 1960-1969.

The Fouts Field Finale will have Big 12 opponent Kansas State in on Nov 27^th with players from 1950-1959 getting center stage.

Any former player are asked to contact Phillips at 940-369-8609 or email him at Ntla@unt.edu to get further information about the planned project. 

To get a jump start on the Phillips’s idea, Eagletalk.net is also trying to locate former North Texas Football players to find out what they are doing and for them to share some of their memories of what it was like to play for North Texas during their era.They can email don@eagletalk.net in order to feature them on Eagletalk.net.

The first former player we talked with and who will be featured tomorrow was Kenneth (K.C.) McNeil, 69, 70, 71 and 72. The reason we will start out with McNeil was Eagletalk.net ran into him at the spring football game. He was at a Letterwinner’s meeting and he took time to talk about his memories of previous North Texas seasons, the change in the Denton area and his hope for the future of North Texas Football.