The primary criteria for selection is determined by championships, awards, individual records, conference honours, and national recognition while competing for the Thunderbirds.

There is no official limit to the number of alumni honoured each year, however, a minimum period of five years following graduation will be observed prior to eligibility. The committee does recognize the football alumni who have been previously honoured by the UBC Sports Hall of Fame as exceptional.

Frank Theodore Gnup: Head Coach, 1955-1973

The former ORFU and Canadian Football League All-Star was the head coach at UBC for 18 years. One of UBC's most colourful, admired, and recognizable campus figures, Gnup was known and fondly remembered as a mentor, provider, and character-builder, as well as a promoter of UBC. Included among his 54 career victories are three Hardy Cups championships (1959, '61, '62), while sending 17 of his players to professional football. Since that time, Gnup's name has been remembered through the Frank Gnup Scholarship for first-year student-athletes, the Frank Gnup Golf Tournament, his induction into both the UBC Sports Hall of Fame and the BC Football Hall of Fame. The AAA provincial football championship is named after him, and the Frank Gnup Memorial Award is presented to the Canada West football Outstanding Player of the Year.

Frank Gnup Wall of Honour

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