The Flying Wedge Award is one of the NCAA’s highest honors. It is awarded to an individual who exemplifies outstanding leadership and service to the NCAA. The flying wedge was used in the early days of American football

American football

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 and became a symbol of the origin of the NCAA in 1906. There is a life-size sculpture of the flying wedge in the NCAA Hall of Champions in Indianapolis and a reproduction is awarded as The Flying Wedge Award. Ironically, the flying wedge formation was outlawed in college football in 1894 because it was highly dangerous.http://www.footballencyclopedia.com/cfeintro.htm

The award is given by the NCAA Leadership Advisory Board of Directors and there have been ten recipients:

• Richard Cheney
  Dick Cheney
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  , Vice President of the United States of America
• Thomas Curley, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Associated Press
• Stevie Eller and Karl Eller
  Karl Eller
  Karl Eller is an Arizona business leader and nationally recognized entrepreneur.Eller grew up in Tucson, Arizona. He played football collegiately at the University of Arizona where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity....
  
  , Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Eller Company
• James T. Morris, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Program
• Edwin A. Lupberger, President, Nesher Investments, LLC
• Reverend Edward A. Malloy
  Edward Malloy
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  , President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
  University of Notre Dame
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• Marion B. Peavey, Senior Vice President for Development and College Relations, Wofford College
  Wofford College
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   and Executive Director Emeritus, NCAA Foundation
• George M. Steinbrenner III
  George Steinbrenner
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  , Principal Owner, New York Yankees
  New York Yankees
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• Randall L. Tobias
  Randall L. Tobias
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  , Ambassador and former Chief Executive Officer of Eli Lilly and Company
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Source

• The Flying Wedge Award. NCAA official website