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Agganis foundation will honor weekly football heroes again

Steve Krause

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The Agganis Foundation will sponsor weekly awards once again this fall for The Item’s football Players of the Week.The foundation, established upon the death of the legendary Harry Agganis in 1955, recognizes, and gives financial assistance to, deserving scholar athletes on the North Shore and in Boston. Over the course of its liftime, the foundation has awarded $1,258,525 to 798 male and female athletes.Five years ago, the foundation stepped in when the previous sponsor of the weekly Gold Helmet Awards discontinued its role.Offensive and Defensive player of the week recipients are chosen upon the recommendation of their coaches. Those coaches wishing to nominate a player should contact The Item sports department on Sunday evenings between 6 and 10 p.m., and should provide any relevant statistics as well.

  • Steve Krause

    Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

    Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

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