2015 North Dakota | football | HONORED JERSEY
#14 Corey Colehour Quarterback 1964-66
Colehour helped lead UND to a 25-4 record and two North Central Conference championships during his three years as the Fighting Sioux starting quarterback. During Colehour’s years, North Dakota played in its first two postseason games, winning both, and achieved a No. 10 UPI national ranking in 1965 and a No. 7 Associated Press national ranking in 1966. The 1966 team averaged 34 points per game, a scoring average exceeded only one other time in UND history (38 points per game in 1972). Colehour still holds the NCC and UND record of six touchdown passes in a single game. A team tri-captain in 1966, Colehour was All-NCC in both 1965 and 1966 and was the NCC and UND most valuable back those same years. In 1966, he was named most valuable back in the Pecan Bowl after North Dakota beat Parson 42-24.
Colehour still ranks in the top 10 of virtually every UND passing category, and is tied for most career 250-yard passing games (eight) and most touchdown passes in a single season (19). Colehour became the first UND player to play in the postseason Senior Bowl all-star game (1967). He threw a touchdown pass in that game. Colehour was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the sixth round of the 1967 NFL draft and played with the Falcons in 1967 and 1968. He played with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League from 1968 through 1970. Colehour is a native of Minneapolis, Minn., where he graduated from Southwest High School in 1963. He graduated from UND in 1968 with a degree in education. Colehour was inducted into the UND Hall of Fame in 1983 and was named to the UND All-Century team in 1993.
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#2 Dwayne ‘Red’ Jarrett
Following his eventful playing career at UND, Red served as UND’s head football coach in 1942 and from 1946 to 1948. He also was the head basketball coach for UND in 1945-46 and from 1949-1951, and served as the Athletic Director and head track coach from 1946 to 1958. As the Athletic Director, Red Jarrett was instrumental in UND’s move to Division 1 collegiate hockey competition in 1947, leading to one of the finest programs in the NCAA. Jarrett was inducted into the UND Athletic Hall of Fame in 1975. He died at the age of 53 on April 26, 1962.
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A three-year starter for the Fighting Sioux, Fennell earned all-North Central Conference honors in 1973. After graduating from UND in 1974, Fennell played with the Edmonton Eskimos for 10 seasons. He helped guide North Dakota to conference titles in 1971 and 1972. The Fighting Sioux went 10-1 in 1972 and defeated Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo 3821 in the Camelia Bowl. During Fennell’s three seasons at UND, North Dakota went 22-8-1.
#77 Dave Fennell Defensive Tackle 1971-73
A native of Edmonton, Alberta, Fennell was named the Outstanding Canadian Player as well as the Outstanding Defensive Player in the 1982 Grey Cup. He helped lead the Eskimos to five straight Grey Cup titles from 1978-1982.
Fennell was inducted into the CFL Hall of Fame in 1990 and was named one of the CFL’s Top 50 players of the modern era by TSN in 2006.
Jarrett was selected as UND’s first AllAmerican football player in 1930, and was also named the “Back of the Year” in the same year by the New York Herald Tribune. He scored the only touchdown allowed by the great Army team of 1930, the eventual national championship team. Following that game, the New York press nicknamed Jarrett, the “Red Rabbit of the Prairie.”
Running Back 1928-30
Said former UND Head Coach Marv “Whitey” Hellling about Colehour, “Corey was an exceptional quarterback on a very good team, and he was a master of taking advantage of his teammates’ collective abilities.”
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Glenn “Red” Jarrett enrolled at UND in 1927 after an illustrious athletic career at Grand Forks Central High School. While at UND, he excelled in football, basketball and track, earning three letters in each sport while wearing the Green & White.
#54 Jim LeClair Linebacker 1970-71
A first-team AFCA and AP All-America selection and the North Central Conference Most Valuable Player in 1971, Jim LeClair was one of the best linebackers ever to play at the University of North Dakota. LeClair, who also earned All-NCC honors in 1970 and 1971, was drafted by the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the 1972 draft. He became a starting middle linebacker in 1974 and was named team captain in 1975, the same year he was named Bengals MVP. LeClair was named All-Pro in 1976 and also earned first alternate All-Pro states five other seasons. The Leclair-led Bengals played San Francisco in Super Bowl XVI, which is still considered one of the most exciting Super Bowls ever to be played.
The South St. Paul, Minn., native held the Bengals team captain moniker until 1983, when he began a two-year stint with the USFL’s N.J. Generals. He earned All-Pro honors in 1984 and retired from professional football in 1985. Jerry Olson, UND head coach from 1968-77, said in 1971, “Jim is a very complete football player: one of the best I’ve ever coached. He is a very intelligent and dedicated athlete.”
“The thing about David was that he wanted to excel,” said Jerry Olson, UND’s head coach from 1968-77. “He was big, strong, fast and very intelligent. He was a great player and a great competitor. I never saw him overmatched in any game we played.”
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