Great weather, good food and fundraising were the common themes at this year’s student-oriented Color Dodgeball Tournament April 13 at Purdue’s Intramural Fields and the Ryan Kerrigan/12th Boiler Golf Outing May 6 at Purdue’s Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex.
The dodgeball event was staged by a student organization, Purdue Gold Standard, which has also helped to provide personnel for other NFF-related events, including running the games for tonight’s reception.
Former Purdue All-American Ryan Kerrigan, now a defensive standout with the NFL’s Washington Redskins, appeared for the fifth straight year at the golf scramble bearing his name that was sponsored jointly by the Tiller
Chapter of the NFF and Purdue’s Trademarks Licensing Office. Many of the participants in the golf outing were vendors, retailers and licensees of Purdue University, along with several NFF chapter members.
Once all the bills are paid, it is expected that these two events (dodgeball and golf) will have cleared more than $7,500, with some of the proceeds going to the Purdue Center for Cancer Research and Kerrigan’s “Blitz for the Better” Foundation while most of the funds will go for scholarships — the 12th Boiler Fund in the John Purdue Club, helping to endow a Purdue football scholarship, and the NFF Scholarship Fund for high school seni
