Past Gold Medal Winners

1958 - Dwight D. Eisenhower
1959 - Douglas A. MacArthur
1960 - Herbert C. Hoover and Amos Alonzo Stagg
1961 - John F. Kennedy
1962 - Byron "Whizzer" White
1963 - Roger M. Blough
1964 - Donald B. Lourie
1965 - Juan T. Trippe
1966 - Earl H. "Red" Blaik
1967 - Frederick L. Hovde
1968 - Chester J. LaRoche
1969 - Richard M. Nixon
1970 - Thomas J. Hamilton
1971 - Ronald W. Reagan
1972 - Gerald R. Ford
1973 - John Wayne
1974 - Gerald B. Zornow
1975 - David Packard
1976 - Edgar B. Speer
1977 - Louis H. Wilson
1978 - Vincent dePaul Draddy
1979 - William P. Lawrence
1980 - Walter J. Zable
1981 - Justin W. Dart
1982 - Silver Anniversary - All Honored
1983 - Jack Kemp
1984 - John F. McGillicuddy
1985 - William I. Spencer
1986 - William H. Morton
1987 - Charles R. Meyer
1988 - Clinton E. Frank
1989 - Paul Brown
1990 - Thomas H. Moorer
1991 - George H. Bush
1992 - Donald R. Keough
1993 - Norman Schwarzkopf
1994 - Thomas S. Murphy
1995 - Harold Alfond
1996 - Gene Corrigan
1997 - Jackie Robinson
1998 - John H. McConnell
1999 - Keith Jackson
2000 - Fred M. Kirby II
2001 - Billy Joe "Red" McCombs
2002 - George M. Steinbrenner III
2003 - General Tommy R. Franks (Ret.)
2004 - William V. Campbell
2005 - Jon F. Hanson

President Richard Nixon squares off with Bob Hope during the 1969 NFF Awards Dinner festivities, which saw Nixon receive the Gold Medal.