WHEREAS, Babe Caccia will celebrate his 90th birthday on October 3rd; and

        WHEREAS, Babe is the winningest coach in Idaho State University’s history in both football and baseball; and

        WHEREAS, his career football record of 80-38-2, 67.8 percent, from 1952 to 1965, includes unbeaten seasons in 1952 and 1957 and the 1963 Big Sky Conference championship in the first year of the league’s existence; and

        WHEREAS, Babe was ISU athletic director seven years and assistant athletic director 14 years; and

        WHEREAS, he was an outstanding football player at ISU from 1936-38, and is a member of the ISU Sports Hall of Fame and the Ring of Honor; and

        WHEREAS, Babe Caccia’s legendary achievements at ISU have made him an inspiration to generations of Idaho young people;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim October 3, 2007, to be

BABE CACCIA DAY
 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at Boise, Idaho, on this 2nd day of October in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-second and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred eighteenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE