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Weddle Named to Walter Camp Watch List
8/21/2006 12:00 AM | Football
Aug. 21, 2006
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the names of 35 "players to watch" for its prestigious Player of the Year award, the nation's fourth-oldest individual college football accolade.
University of Utah senior defensive back Eric Weddle has been named to this watch list. Weddle's inclusion on the Walter Camp Player of the Year list leaves him as a candidate on five different national watch lists. He was already named as a candidate for the Bronko Nagurski Award, the Lott Trophy, the Chuck Bednarik Award and the Jim Thorpe Award.
The Walter Camp Player of the Year watch list will be narrowed to 10 semifinalists in early November. The 2006 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 119 Division I-A head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced on the ESPN/Home Depot College Football Awards Show in December. The winner will then receive his trophy at the Foundation's annual national awards banquet on January 13, 2007 at the Yale University Commons in New Haven.
Last year's recipient was USC running back Reggie Bush.
Walter Camp, "The Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp - a former Yale University athlete and football coach - is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football Foundation (www.waltercamp.org) - a New Haven-based all-volunteer group - was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.
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