Big Ten to honor Sam Foltz and Mike Sadler on Saturday

A coin honoring Sam Foltz and Mike Sadler will be used at every Big Ten football game this weekend.

Big Ten play will kick into gear this weekend with seven games. For each of those games, a coin will be used for the pregame coin flip in memory of Nebraska punter Sam Foltz and Michigan State punter Mike Sadler. The two died in a single-car accident this past July.

The gold coin will feature Foltz on one side and Sadler on the other. Each side features a photo of the men and the team’s logo.

It was designed by members of the Sadler and Foltz families, the Big Ten and the two schools:

Mark Hollis, the Spartans athletic director, has said that Michigan State will use the coin throughout the 2016 season. Nebraska has announced that they plan to do the same. Numerous Big Ten teams have already tweeted out pictures of the coin that will be used on Saturday.

Sadler graduated from Michigan State in 2014 and was the school’s first four-time academic All-American in history. Last Thursday he was inducted into the Michigan State Hall of Fame. Usually, there is a 10-year waiting period before an athlete becomes eligible, but the committee waived it and inducted him a year after his graduation.

Foltz was entering his senior year with the Huskers and was named to the Ray Guy Award watch list (given annually to the nation’s top college punter.) He received the Nebraska Student-Athlete HERO Leadership Award in 2016 and was also a standout in the classroom making the Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll five times.

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In a tribute to Foltz, the Nebraska football team took a delay of game penalty during their game against Fresno State. The punting unit took the field for the first time in 2016, but they did so with just 10 players.