NATCHITOCHES – One of Northwestern State's top two-sport athletes will be honored during Saturday's home football game against Lamar.
 
Dick Reding, a football and track and field standout in the mid-1960s, will be honored as the Exchange Bank and Trust Demon Great of the Game during the first quarter of the Demons' 6:30 p.m. Southland Conference contest against the Cardinals.
 
Reding was a versatile end whose 187-yard receiving performance against Southeastern Louisiana in 1966 stood as NSU's single-game record for 16 seasons and remains the ninth-best single-game performance in school history. That was part of a 1966 season in which Reding was a team co-captain and earned his second consecutive All-Gulf States Conference honor. Later that season, he became the first Demon football player to be selected to play in a postseason all-star game.
 
He made the moment count, scoring a touchdown in the Senior Bowl.
 
Reding was an equally decorated shot putter on the NSU track and field team. A two-time Gulf States Conference champion, he also established the conference's shot put record as part of a career that saw him enshrined in the N-Club Hall of Fame in 1982.
 
A Demon Great of the Game is spotlighted at each home football game. In its first six seasons, the Great of the Game presented by Exchange Bank and Trust has honored 32 outstanding figures in the 111-year history of NSU athletics. Reding, joins former NSU track and field All-American javelin thrower Latrell Frederick, All-American tight end Justin Aldredge and Pro Bowl return specialist Terrance McGee as this season's Demon Great of the Game honorees.
 
Exchange Bank and Trust has been a key supporter of NSU Athletics throughout its long history as the oldest financial institution in Louisiana.