National Football Foundation

Seven high school scholar-athletes were honored in 1974 as members of the inaugural South Bend Chapter class. Since then, the chapter has honored more than 300 high school students for all-around excellence in the classroom, on the football field and in the communities. 

Today, the chapter annually honors approximately 20 scholar-athletes from throughout the South Bend area in addition to current and former coaches for their contributions to the game. 

In 1980, the chapter officially changed its name to the Moose Krause Chapter in honor of the long-time Notre Dame athletic director and coach. For more than 60 years, Krause was one of the great ambassadors of the game and of college athletics. He spurned a Chicago Bears contract in 1934 to continue in college athletics and until his dying breath was a great spokesman for all sports, particularly at Notre Dame.