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Max Hall enters his senior season after passing for 3,957 yards and 35 touchdowns in 2008.   (BYU Photo/Mark Philbrick)

Walter Camp Football Foundation Announces its 2009 Player of the Year “Watch List”

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – BYU senior quarterback Max Hall is one of 30 players the Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced as “players to watch” for its prestigious Player of the Year award, the nation’s fourth-oldest individual college football accolade.

“We are proud to continue the great work of Walter Camp and recognize the best college football players in the nation,” Foundation president Alphonse Paolillo, Jr. said. “This watch list is a great start to what is shaping up to be another exciting year of college football.”

Hall is a two-time All-Mountain West Conference honoree who passed for league-highs of 3,957 yards and 35 touchdowns last fall, leading the MWC in both categories for the second straight season. His passing and total yardage (4,072) numbers ranked among the top 10 nationally while setting MWC records for a junior signal-caller.

Six players on the 2009 watch list, including the 2008 Walter Camp Player of the Year Colt McCoy (quarterback, Texas), were named to last year’s Walter Camp All-America First Team. The watch list will be narrowed to 10 semi-finalists in early November. The 2009 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 119 NCAA Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced live on the ESPN SportsCenter on December 10. The winner will then receive his trophy at the Foundation’s annual national awards banquet on January 18, 2010 at the Yale University Commons in New Haven.

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.

The Walter Camp Football Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game’s predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients. For more information, visit the association’s website, www.ncfaa.org

						
2009 Walter Camp Player of the Year “Watch List”

Jahvid Best, RB, Junior, California
Arrelious Benn, WR, Junior, Illinois
Eric Berry, DB, Junior, Tennessee*
Sam Bradford, QB, Junior, Oklahoma@
LaGarrette Blount, RB, Senior, Oregon
Dez Bryant, WR, Junior, Oklahoma State*
Daryll Clark, QB, Senior, Penn State
Jonathan Dwyer, RB, Junior, Georgia Tech 
Mardy Gilyard, WR, Senior, Cincinnati 
Jermaine Gresham, TE, Senior, Oklahoma@ 
Max Hall, QB, Senior, Brigham Young 
Tim Hiller, QB, Senior, Western Michigan 
Jerry Hughes, DE, Senior, TCU* 
Kendell Hunter, RB, Junior, Oklahoma State 
MiQuale Lewis, RB, Senior, Ball State 
Taylor Mays, DB, Senior, USC* 
Colt McCoy, QB, Senior, Texas* 
Kellen Moore, QB, Sophomore, Boise State 
Todd Reesing, QB, Senior, Kansas 
Jacquizz Rodgers, RB, Sophomore, Oregon State 
Evan Royster, RB, Senior, Penn State 
George Selvie, DE, Senior, South Florida#@ 
Jordan Shipley, WR, Senior, Texas 
Rusty Smith, QB, Senior, Florida Atlantic 
Jevan Snead, QB, Junior, Mississippi 
Brandon Spikes, LB, Senior, Florida* 
C.J. Spiller, RB, Senior, Clemson 
Golden Tate, WR, Junior, Notre Dame 
Tim Tebow, QB, Senior, Florida# 
Sean Weatherspoon, LB, Senior, Missouri@

@ - 2008 Walter Camp Second Team All-American
* - 2008 Walter Camp First Team All-American 
# – 2007 Walter Camp First Team All-American