Ex-Redskin Mann will speak at banquet

By BILL WAGNER
Staff Writer
Former Washington Redskins star and current sportscaster Charles Mann will be guest speaker at the 46th annual Touchdown Club of Annapolis football awards banquet, being held next Thursday at the Annapolis Marriott Waterfront Hotel. Mann played 12 years in the National Football League, all but one with Washington. He ranks 15th on the Redskins all-time list for games played with 163. Mann, a 6-foot-6, 270·pound defensive end, was a member of three teams that captured Super Bowl championships — in 1988 and ’92 with Washington and in ‘94 with San Francisco. Mann, a third-round draft choice out of Nevada-Reno, was selected to the Pro Bowl four times, including three straight seasons from 1987-89. Mann, who notched 95 career sacks, was on the 1999 ballot for the NFL Hall of Fame. Mann worked as a sportscaster with WUSA—Channel 9 in Washington, D.C. for several years after retiring from professional football following the 1994 season. He has also worked as a color analyst on NFL broadcasts Mann, who is involved with dozens of charitable organizations, is highlysought
around the nation as a motivational speaker, Naval Academy center Terrence Anderson and Maryland tailback LaMont Jordan will receive the Touchdown Club’s prestigious collegiate awards. Anderson, a third-team All·America
selection by the Associated Press, will receive the Tony Rubino Memorial Silver Helmet Award as Navy’s Most Valuable Player. Jordan, a first-team All—Atlantic Coast Conference selection, will be awarded the Louis L. Goldstein Memorial Golden Helmet as Maryland MVP. Anderson, a 5-foot-11, 285-pound senior out of Stillwater, Okla., averaged 13.9 knockdowns and a blocking grade of 95 percent per game. He did not allow a sack all season and had three of his finest games against Navys toughest opponents. Anderson graded out at 98 percent with 28 knockdowns versus West Virginia and 98 percent with 14 knockdowns against Notre Dame. Anderson boasts a 3.5 grade point average as an economics major. He hopes to become a doctor and will be taking entrance