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Michigan State’s Allen and Burt Earn Big Ten Medal of Honor

Spartan duo joins elite company as part of 102nd Big Ten Medal of Honor class

ROSEMONT, Ill. – As the Big Ten continues its celebration for the 102nd class of the Big Ten Medal of Honor, Michigan State announced that Jack Allen of the football team and women’s gymnast Lisa Burt have been named the Spartans’ 2015-16 Big Ten Medal of Honor recipients.

The Big Ten, the nation’s oldest collegiate conference, commemorates the 102nd anniversary of a very unique tradition – the Big Ten Medal of Honor. The conference’s most exclusive award was the first of its kind in intercollegiate athletics to recognize academic and athletic excellence.