NSU has set an April 2-3 date for the Delaney Bowl Crawfish Boil and Golf Tournament.

NSU SID News Release:

NATCHITOCHES – Golf entries and tickets are available to a crawfish boil, live auction and golf tournament April 2-3 supporting Northwestern State football, with the events following next Thursday’s NSU's 26th Annual Joe Delaney Bowl spring football game.

Entries and tickets can be obtained by contacting the Demon football office at 318-357-5252, football assistant coach Will Weaver at 357-5252 (weaverw@nsula.edu) or any Coaches Cabinet Association member.

The 26th Annual Joe Delaney Bowl at 5:30 on Thursday, April 2 wraps up NSU's spring practices under second-year coach Jay Thomas. Admission is free to the game in Turpin Stadium.

Tickets at $40 per person provide admission to a postgame crawfish boil starting at 7, at the south end zone of Turpin Stadium outside the Stroud Room. Another main course will be provided for those who don’t eat crawfish. A silent auction begins at 7 and a live auction of sports experiences, trips, goods and services, and memorabilia will follow around 8.

The Joe Delaney Golf Tournament on Friday, April 3 has a 9 a.m. shotgun start at the Demon Hills Golf Course. Four-person teams can enter for $500 with individual entries at $125, including a golf shirt and gift bag for each player. Sponsorship packages are also available.

The items up for auction on Thursday evening, April 2, include travel with the Demons on road trips to NSU games in 2015; several fishing trips to various hot spots in and out of state, sure to fill ice chests; hunting trips and college and pro sports experiences; vacation packages, merchandise and sporting goods; along with an impressive array of autographed helmets, balls and other items signed by some of the sports' world's biggest stars.

Money raised by the events will help support the Demon football program.

Delaney was a two-sport All-American at Northwestern, playing football and running track from 1977-81. He was a two-time football All-American at tailback who became the 1981 AFC Rookie of the Year for the Kansas City Chiefs, just months after capping his NSU career as a member of the 1981 NCAA champion 4x100 meter relay team.

A Pro Bowl running back for the Chiefs, Delaney drowned in a heroic June 1983 attempt to rescue three children, one who survived. Northwestern's football permanent team captains annually receive the Joe Delaney Memorial Leadership Awards, and since 1989, the spring football game has been called the Joe Delaney Bowl. A memorial shrine to Delaney sits underneath the home stands on the west side of Turpin Stadium.

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