Bob Cordle '63 named 2011 Hendrix Award winner
8/24/2011 9:24:00 AM | DAF
Hendrix Award video celebrating Bob Cordle '63
DAVIDSON, N.C. - Bob Cordle has been selected as the 2011 Hendrix Award winner. A graduate of the Class of 1963, Cordle was a team co-captain his senior season playing as a taiback, defensive back, and punter for the Wildcats. Named to the Southern Conference All-Academic Football Team, Cordle was also a Root-Tilden Scholar, Tommy Peters Award winner, Track Captain, and Kappa Sigma Vice-President while at Davidson.
In his career post-Davidson, Cordle has become a leading trial lawyer with a national firm, Mayer Brown LLP, in Charlotte. He has given his time and resources to Davidson as a trustee, Davidson Athletic Foundation board member, Annual Fund class chair and agent, 40th Reunion planning Chair, Wildcat Club President and board member, and Fast Break Club member. Last year he also organized a 50th reunion for the football team that defeated Viriginia Tech in what is widely considered the greatest upset in Davidson athletics history.
The Hendrix Award is presented annually to a Davidson football letterman who, by the use of lessons learned on the playing field, has gone on to achieve outstanding success in his chosen profession. This year's celebration will take place on November 19, 2011, with an on-field ceremony occurring between the first and second quarters of the football game against Valparaiso.
The Hendrix Award is named for Dr. James P. Hendrix '25, who starred on the football field at Davidson and served as the President of the Student Body. He was an all-state halfback on the 1924 team that finished 7-2-1, and was a member of the varsity track team. Later one of the nation's leading specialists in internal medicine, Hendrix served as a Trustee to the College for 13 years, and was an original member of the Davidson College Athletics Hall of Fame. Click here for a list of former Hendrix honorees.
The Davidson Athletic Foundation's primary purpose is to raise operating, scholarship and capital funds to support student athletes and the Division I athletic programs of Davidson College. A corollary purpose is to strengthen the broader academic-athletic community of alumni, athletes and coaches, faculty and staff, parents and neighbors through the hosting of events throughout the year and through communications that engage the DAF's external and internal constituencies and complement the DAF's development efforts.The Davidson Athletic Foundation's primary purpose is to raise operating, scholarship and capital funds to support student athletes and the Division I athletic programs of Davidson College. A corollary purpose is to strengthen the broader academic-athletic community of alumni, athletes and coaches, faculty and staff, parents and neighbors through the hosting of events throughout the year and through communications that engage the DAF's external and internal constituencies and complement the DAF's development efforts.
