John Madden from College of San Mateo and Warren Moon out of West Los Angeles College have been inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

Madden, who coached the Oakland Raiders to a Super Bowl title, follows another former CSM player from the 1950's into the Hall, Bill Walsh – who won three Super Bowls as coach of the 49ers.

San Mateo stands out over other colleges with a third NFL head coach with a Super Bowl ring, former CSM coach and recently retired Dick Vermeil (won with Chiefs), as a future Hall of Fame candidate. Vermeil played and also coached at Napa JC.

Madden started his coaching career at a California CC, Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria (as an assistant coach and then the head coach) in 1960.

Moon became the first African-American quarterback selected to the Hall. He was a record-setting quarterback at West LA in 1974-75.

Notes: 16 former JC/CC players, 13 from California , are now in the NFL Hall of Fame!

Three California CC's -- San Mateo , Cerritos , and Compton -- share the record for players, each with two.

Compton has the overall record with three HOF members, including contributor (SID) Pete Rozelle. (See chart.)

-- San Mateo also has a former player in Canada 's CFL Hall of Fame, Tom Scott, who was on the receiving end of Warren Moon's passes for five Grey Cup champion teams at Edmonton.

-- Former California CC players have had great success as NFL coaches and administrators. In addition to Madden, Walsh, current Washington coach Joe Gibbs, and former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, several 2005 NFL head coaches were former California Community College players: Herman Edwards (Monterey Peninsula), John Fox (Southwestern), Mike Martz (San Diego Mesa ), and Vermeil.

CSM trivia notes: CSM coach Doug Scovil defeated then Allan Hancock assistant coach John Madden's team in the 1961 Prune Bowl in San Jose . Dick Vermeil got his first college coaching position in 1963 when Scovil left CSM to become the backfield coach at Navy. There Scovil tutored Roger Staubach, out of New Mexico Military Academy (JC), to become the first JC transfer to win the Heisman trophy. (O.J. Simpson of CCSF was the second. He played against another notable CSM player, Walt Harris, in the Golden Gate Conference.)

--Three of the four current Pac-10 coaches in California are former California CC players: USC's Pete Carroll ( College of Marin ), Cal 's Jeff Tedford ( Cerritos ), and Stanford's Walt Harris ( San Mateo ). Harris and Walsh recently provided Stanford both a head coach and athletic director with CSM roots.

New England QB Tom Brady often publicly credits another former CSM head coach, Tom Martinez, for off-season coaching help. Brady, a product of Serra High School (located a mile from the CSM campus) often worked out with Martinez at CSM during his high school, college, and post-collegiate time at home (and still does). Madden has made several mentions of this relationship during his ABC telecasts of New England games.

6 former College of San Mateo players / coaches with 15 Super Bowl rings:
--Bill Walsh, CSM player: San Francisco 49ers Coach (3)
--John Madden, CSM player: Oakland Raiders Coach (1)
--Neal Dahlen, CSM player (MVP) and assistant coach: San Francisco 49ers Staff/Player Personnel (5), Denver Broncos General Manager (2)
--Dick Vermeil, CSM assistant coach: St. Louis Rams (1)
--Steve Shafer, CSM assistant and head coach: Baltimore Ravens Assistant Head Coach (1)
--Bill Ring, CSM player: San Francisco 49ers player 1981-86 (2)
(Three players from the 1950's -- Walsh, Madden, and Dahlen -- account for 11 rings; Dahlen alone has a record 7.)

The 13 Pro Football Hall of Fame Members from (9) Northern California Colleges:

Hall of Fame members who played for two NorCal colleges: Bill Walsh, College of San Mateo and San Jose State; Ollie Matson, CCSF and USF; Gino Marchetti, Modesto JC and USF.

Three of USF's four Half of Fame members were JC transfers: Marchetti, Matson, and Pete Rozelle (Compton).

Source: Pro Football Hall of Fame and JC Athletic Bureau research.

HERE IS A CSM FOOTBALL TRIVIA QUIZ, prepared by CSM SID Fred Baer:

1. Which former College of San Mateo player had a greater impact on the NFL?

1. John Madden
2. Bill Walsh

2. Which of the three Super Bowl winning coaches produced by College of San Mateo have had the most success as NFL head coaches?

1. Dick Vermeil (first college coaching position was at CSM
2. Bill Walsh
3. John Madden

3. Who is the top broadcaster to come out of College of San Mateo?

1. Bill Walsh
2. Jon Miller
3. Hal Ramey
4. John Madden
5. Dick Vermeil

4. Which former College of San Mateo player has earned the most Super Bowl rings?

1. John Madden
2. Bill Ring
3. Bill Walsh
4. Neal Dahlen

5. Which former College of San Mateo coach has the most Super Bowl rings?

a. Dick Vermeil

b. Steve Shafer

c. Neal Dahlen

6. Which former College of San Mateo player has won the most CFL Grey Cup titles?

1. Bill Walsh
2. John Madden
3. Neal Dahlen
4. Tom Scott
5. Bill Ring

7. Who is the most famous football player to practice regularly at College of San Mateo during his school career -- and also in the off season during his pro career?

1. Perry Parmelee
2. Tom Scott
3. Tom Brady
4. Lynn Swann

8. Which former CSM player competed against CCSF's O.J. Simpson at San Mateo in the 60's?

1. John Madden
2. Walt Harris
3. Bill Walsh
4. Perry Parmelee

ANSWER SHEET

1, 2, 3 Your choice.

4.d. A record SEVEN by former CSM player (MVP) and assistant coach Neal Dahlen: five with the 49ers (Staff and Player Personnel) and two with the Denver Broncos (General Manager). The three CSM players from the fifties have 11 rings!

5.c. Same answer. Former CSM assistant coach Dick Vermeil (St Louis Rams) and former CSM head coach Steve Shafer (Baltimore Ravens) each have one ring. Six former CSM players and coaches have a total of 15 Super Bowl rings.

6.c. With Edmonton , CSM's Tom Scott was part of the Eskimos' five-straight Grey Cup Championships teams – on the receiving end of Warren Moon's passes. He was an All-Canadian selection in 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, and 1983 and was elected into the CFL Hall of Fame on Feb. 24, 1998 . He was the CFL's most outstanding rookie in 1973 with Winnipeg .

7.c Tom Brady received personal training from former CSM head coach and offensive guru Tom Martinez during his high school and college days and still appears regularly at summer football camps conducted by Martinez .

8.b Stanford head coach Walt Harris was an All-Golden Gate Conference defensive selection for CSM.

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[The writer, having been affiliated with CSM since 1961, is honored to be one of five people from CSM (including Bill Walsh, John Madden, Dick Vermeil, and Perry Parmelee) to have been inducted into the California Community College Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame, which is housed at the Visalia , Calif. , Elks Lodge. That could almost be another trivia question, but not needed.]