ESPN3 to Carry Live Saturday’s Walter Camp National Awards Dinner
The sold-out dinner will be seen at 6:45 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 12 on ESPN3
New Haven, Conn. – ESPN3 will carry live Saturday’s sold-out Walter Camp National Awards Dinner starting at 6:45 p.m. from the Yale University Commons. The dinner can be viewed at http://waltercamp.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b810683e15b74e3bcc163850e&id=540ef5991b&e=c3ec3cea77.
ESPN3 is ESPN’s live multi-screen sports network, giving fans a destination that delivers thousands of live sports events annually, accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app and through ESPN on Xbox LIVE to Gold members. It is available at no additional cost to fans who receive their high-speed internet connection or video connection from an affiliated service provider. ESPN3 is currently available in 83 million homes. It is also available at no cost to approximately 21 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers connected to on-campus educational networks and on-base military networks.
The 46th Walter Camp National Awards Dinner will honor the members of the 2012 Walter Camp All-America Team. Player of the Year Manti Te’o (Notre Dame), Coach of the Year Brian Kelly (Notre Dame), and Connecticut Player of the Year Bjoern Werner (Florida State/Salisbury School) will also be recognized. In addition, the Foundation will honor three individuals – former Nebraska head coach and Athletic director Tom Osborne, former NFL player and coach Herm Edwards and NFL All-Pro Derrick Brooks – with major awards. The master of ceremonies is ESPN SportsCenter anchor John Anderson.
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 – 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. Visit http://waltercamp.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b810683e15b74e3bcc163850e&id=5a71e2aa25&e=c3ec3cea77.
The Walter Camp 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.
