As a senior co-captain, Ham earned All-America honors in 1970 after making 91 tackles and intercepting four passes. He still shares a pair of defensive records for blocked punts: four in his career, three in his final season. Ham had 251 career tackles (143 solo).

Hall of Fame linebacker and current Penn State football radio analyst honored
 
DALLAS; August 21, 2015 – The accomplishments of legendary Penn State football linebacker Jack Ham continue to standout in the annals of college football history, as the Football Writers’ Association of American (FWAA) named the Hall of Famer to its 75th Anniversary All-America Third Team.
 
The team celebrates the FWAA’s All-America teams from near the end of World War II through the 2014 season. The FWAA, which was founded in 1941, has picked an annual All-America team since the 1944 season, making it the second-longest continuously selected team in major college football.
 
A nomination ballot with selected players from all FWAA All-America teams was sent to the entire membership this spring. The popular vote was then taken into consideration by a Blue Ribbon Committee of FWAA past presidents, current board members and officers. That committee put the finishing touches on selecting the 75-man team. In order for a player to be considered for the FWAA’s 75th team, he had to be on a previous FWAA All-America team.
 
As a senior co-captain, Ham earned All-America honors in 1970 after making 91 tackles and intercepting four passes. He still shares a pair of defensive records for blocked punts: four in his career, three in his final season. Ham had 251 career tackles (143 solo).
 
The Johnstown, Pennsylvania, native became the 10th Nittany Lion to be enshrined in the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame when he was inducted in 1990. Ham is the only Penn State product in both the college and professional football halls of fame.
 
After graduating from Penn State with a business degree, Ham went on to be a nine-time All-Pro linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers and was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988.
 
A second-round draft choice of the Steelers in 1971, Ham developed into one of the NFL’s most outstanding linebackers. He starred on all four of the Steelers’ Super Bowl championship teams and was the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year in 1975.
 
Today, he is president of a drug testing services company and also works as a radio and television football analyst, including his role with the Penn State Sports Network. He is also a Penn State Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.
 
All eight decades in which the FWAA teams have been selected are represented on the 75-man team, starting in the 1940s with SMU’s Doak Walker all the way through Alabama’s two-time All-America Barrett Jones, the 2011 Outland winner. In all, there are 56 members of the National Football Foundation’s College Football Hall of Fame and 41 schools are represented on the three 25-man teams.
 
The FWAA has selected All-America Teams in different forms over the years. All the teams are online atallamericateam.com and footballwriters.com in the All-America section in the FWAA awards area.
 
Founded in 1941, the Football Writers Association of America consists of 1,400 men and women who cover college football. The membership includes journalists, broadcasters and publicists, as well as key executives in all the areas that involve the game. The FWAA works to govern areas that include game-day operations, major awards and its annual All-America team. For more information about the FWAA and its award programs, contact Steve Richardson.