May 23rd marks 100 days until the 2018 season kickoff for the 100th season of WKU Football, and each day this summer, WKU Athletics will treat fans to unique and interesting history of Hilltopper Football, from never-before-seen photos to game tickets and programs and everything in between, all leading up to an August 31 season kick off.
| DAY 40 (July 22) |
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| Defensive back Carl Brazley was a nominee for WKU's All-Century team on the heels of a 1978 All-Ohio Valley Conference season. Brazley enjoyed a successful professional career as well, spending the 1980-86 seasons in the Canadian Football League, the 1987 season in the NFL, and then back to the CFL from 1988-92. |
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| DAY 39 (July 23) |
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| A three-year letterman from 1971-73, Lonnie Schuster was one of the most feated defensive players in the Ohio Valley Conference and earned OVC Defensive Player of the Year honors in 1973. Schuster, along with David Nollner, captained that 1973 which finished as Division II National Runner-Ups with a 12-1 overall record. |
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| DAY 38 (July 24) |
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| Before Brandon Doughty and Mike White were slinging it around the yard in the FBS years, quarterback Jeff Cesarone was the original gunslinger on The Hill. A letterman from 1984-97, the Geneva, Ill. native set passing records for career yards (8,566), season yards (2,737, 1985), single-game yards (494 vs. Akron, 1985), as well as career and season records for passing attempts, completions, and touchdowns. |
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| DAY 37 (July 25) |
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| Donnie Evans (#50) and Tim Ford (#80) combined for a ferocious defensive ends pairing, seen here in 1981 with defensive line coach Stumpy Baker. That season, Evans and Ford combined for 175 total tackles. |
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| DAY 36 (July 26) |
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| Defensive back James Edwards was WKU's first-ever consensus All-American, earning that honor in 1987 as a standout safety. Edwards earned first-team All-American honors by the Associated Press, American Football Coaches Association and Walter Camp Foundation, along with a host of others. That season, Edwards was No. 9 nationally in interceptions per game with seven overall and nine pass breakups. |
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| DAY 35 (July 27) |
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| Owner of one of the best heads of hair, Biff Madon was a standout linebacker for the Hilltoppers from 1974-77 and was named the Ohio Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 1976. Madon's 252 career solo tackles are still the second-most in school history while he's 148 and 143 total tackles in 1976 and 1977, respectively, still rank in the top 10 in program history. |
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| DAY 34 (July 28) |
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| An explosive return man, Davlin Mullen remains one of only two Hilltoppers to ever record a 100-yard return for a touchdown. His 32.0 yards per kick return still rank as the top mark for a career and he was the first Hilltopper to have three career kick return touchdowns. |
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| DAY 33 (July 29) |
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| In 1978, Eddie Preston (#42) and Darryl Drake (#16) were the one-two punch for Coach Jimmy Feix's offense. Preston and Drake combined for nearly 1,000 receiving yards - quite a mark in 1978 - as WKU posted an 8-2 overall record and a perfect 6-0 record in the Ohio Valley Conference. |
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| DAY 32 (July 30) |
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| Before there was Willie Taggart, there was Eddie Thompson. A quarterback in the option offense, Thompson set the standard for rushing by a quarterback on The Hill with 2,349 career rushing yards from 1991-93, including a then-NCAA record by a quarterback with 309 against Southern Illinois in 1992. That record was also the most by a player in a single game until Leon Allen broke the mark with 345 against Army in 2014. |
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| DAY 31 (July 31) |
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| We're officially one month from kickoff, and what better way to celebrate than with our last photo of our four retired jerseys, all together in the same room: Willie Taggart (#1), Jimmy Feix (#66), Virgil Livers (#24) and Dale Lindsey (#44). |
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