{"id":5314,"date":"2012-08-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/index.php\/2012\/08\/21\/coach-surprises-walk-on-football-player-with-full-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2012-08-21T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T04:00:00","slug":"coach-surprises-walk-on-football-player-with-full-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/21\/coach-surprises-walk-on-football-player-with-full-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Surprises Walk-On Football Player with Full Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5313\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/b320775de3c297425b69dccc362220a9.jpg\" alt=\"Image Credit: bcdownload.gannett.edgesuite.net\" class=\"caption\" title=\"Leadership\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/>\n<p>Calling all &#8220;Rudy&#8221; fans. This one&#8217;s for you. Marc Panu is a fourth-year walk-on on Vanderbilt University&#8217;s football team. During the preseason camp, head coach James Franklin was showing the team a film of their plays when all of a sudden, to Panu&#8217;s surprise, the attention turned to him. Franklin started pointing out Panu&#8217;s skills and then segued into an announcement that he was awarding Panu a full scholarship. His teammates gave the emotional student a standing ovation.<br \/> Video of the surprise scholarship is warming the hearts of people on the Web. Since Vanderbilt&#8217;s athletic department posted it on YouTube on Friday, the video has gained more than 210,000 views. One viewer wrote, &#8220;This is what athletics and working hard is all about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vanderbilt Football Walk-On Marc Panu Awarded Scholarship\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JOJu5P7hBbo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; line-height: 23px; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-family: Arvo, Arial, sans-serif;\">Bernard, Sarah. &#8220;Coach Surprises Walk-On Football Player with Full Scholarship&#8221;. Yahoo. 14 August 2012. Web. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>View original good news story at yahoo.com:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; line-height: 23px; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-family: Arvo, Arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/trending-now\/coach-surprises-walk-football-player-full-scholarship-193255678.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/trending-now\/coach-surprises-walk-football-player-full-scholarship-193255678.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all &#8220;Rudy&#8221; fans. This one&#8217;s for you. Marc Panu is a fourth-year walk-on on Vanderbilt University&#8217;s football team. During the preseason camp, head coach James Franklin was showing the team a film of their plays when all of a sudden, to Panu&#8217;s surprise, the attention turned to him. Franklin<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/21\/coach-surprises-walk-on-football-player-with-full-scholarship\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":5313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2862],"tags":[2960,3127],"class_list":["entry","author-gwn_info","post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-football","tag-vanderbilt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coach Surprises Walk-On Football Player with Full Scholarship - Good World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/21\/coach-surprises-walk-on-football-player-with-full-scholarship\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coach Surprises Walk-On Football Player with Full Scholarship - Good World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Calling all &#8220;Rudy&#8221; fans. 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