Congratulations to our 2023 Football Season Nominees

61st Annual Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 6:30pm

Martin's West

6817 Dogwood Rd, Baltimore, MD 21244

Nominees are to arrive no later than 5:30pm

Coat and Tie for Nominees

Families may wait in their cars or in the lobby until the doors open at 6pm. There are few chairs so please plan accordingly.

Dinner begins at 6:30pm

Business cocktail attire for guests, coat and tie for nominees. 

An email with specific instructions will be sent to nominee and their families. Emails used will be the emails submitted on the nomination form. Please be in touch with the school regarding tickets. Each school has or will have purchased a table (6 tickets) and will receive paper tickets in the mail. The nominee does not need a ticket but each person MUST bring a ticket to the event.

Additional tickets for family and friends can be purchased here.

No tickets will be sold at the door.

Scholar Athlete Dinner

Primary among its efforts, the Baltimore Chapter sponsors the annual Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner, which recognizes a young man from each of the football-playing high schools in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, and Howard counties. The first dinner was held in 1964 at the Belvedere Hotel under the chairmanship of Dr. R.D. “Bo” Menton, Jr. That year, 380 people attended the affair honoring 31 Scholar-Athletes. Through the years, more than 3,300 Scholar-Athletes have been honored and over 50,000 people have attended the dinner.

Scholarships awarded have amounted to more than $300,000. Over 1,200 people attended the 2010 dinner where we honored 94 outstanding young men. The budget for this year's affair exceeded $70,000, in contrast to the original year's budget of $3,500. The Chapter takes great pride in its Scholar-Athlete Dinner, which is the largest of more than 100 similar dinners held by Football Foundation chapters and is the only one that honors a Scholar-Athlete nominee from each of the football-playing high schools in its chapter area.