NFF Chris Schenkel Award Recipients
Biography
Frank Fallon is a Baylor University icon after calling men’s basketball and football games for the Bears for 42 years from 1953-95. He was known as the “Voice of the Baylor Bears” and the “Voice of the NCAA Final Four,” along with 45 years calling Texas high school football games.
His great career also included television play-by-play of Southwest Conference basketball games on NBC and ESPN and he spent 29 years as the general manager of KWTX radio in Waco, Texas. Fallon was also the coordinator of broadcast activities at Baylor for a decade. He called greats such as College Football Hall of Famers Larry Elkins, Thomas Everett, Bill Glass, Mike Singletary, Jim Ray Smith, Don Trull and Coach Grant Teaff.
Fallon was a five-time Texas Association of Broadcasters Sportscaster of the Year and seven-time Associated Press Best Radio Play-by-Play Announcer. He is a member of the Baylor Athletics and the Texas High School Football Halls of Fame and an honorary member of the Texas High School Football Coaches Association. Fallon passed away at his home in 2004 at the age of 73.
