Cape Cod, Mass. – ECAC Director of Marketing and Communications
Gordon Morton was honored with the 2009 Scoop Hudgins "Outstanding Sports Information Director Award" by the All-American Football Foundation during the 101st All-American Football Foundation Banquet of Champions on October 6. The event, sponsored by the ECAC and the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce Sports Advisory Panel, took place at the Resort & Conference Center in Hyannis.
The award is given by the Foundation to those who excel in their efforts to promote the game of football. Morton currently administers the historic Lambert Meadowlands Football Poll for the ECAC and also coordinates the Eastern College Football Award Banquet each year at the Meadowlands.
The award is named after Elmore “Scoop” Hudgins, who was the first SID at both Vanderbilt University and the Southeastern Conference.
Prior to joining the ECAC, Morton served as the Assistant Sports Information Director at Dartmouth College from 2003-2006. During his time in Hanover, he served as the secondary contact for the Big Green football team. His writing was honored with an award from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in the 2005-06 Fred Stabley Writing Contest.
Morton also spent seven years working at Brown University with positions in sports information and athletic development. His work there garnered him gold and silver medals from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and an Award of Excellence from the University and College Designers Association (UCDA).
A native of Barrington, R.I., Morton is a 1993 graduate of Brown University. He has also authored a book on the history of Brown athletics, entitled
Brown University Athletics: From the Bruins to the Bears, which was published in 2003.
To read the release online and see more information on the ECAC, please visit
http://www.ecac.org/news/09-10/morton_aaff_award.
About the ECAC®
The ECAC is the nation’s largest athletic and the only multi-divisional conference in the country with approximately 300 Division I, II, and III colleges and universities. The ECAC stretches from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Illinois. Established in 1938, the ECAC, a non-profit service organization, sponsors nearly 100 championships in 37 men’s and women’s sports and administers nine affiliate sports organizations and six playing leagues. Through the public relations arm of the conference, more than 2,000 student-athletes are recognized. Finally, the ECAC serves as the primary conference for select members in the sports of men’s ice hockey, women’s ice hockey, and men’s lacrosse.