Melberger Award
The Melberger Award was given annually to an outstanding U.S. college football player in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.The Melberger had been one of two awards given to Division III football players, the other being the better-known Gagliardi Trophy.In recent years the Melberger has fallen into disfavor due to poor publicity and coordination by the firm which now sponsors the award.From the period 2002–2004, the award was given not to the nation's most outstanding Division III football players, but to the player in the local region who could attend (at their own cost) the awards ceremony in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.Prior to 2002, the Melberger Award was funded and supported by the Downtown Wilkes-Barre Touchdown Club.