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WCFF Names National Players of the Week for Week Ending Oct. 13

Houston WR Donnie Avery and Oregon DE Nick Reed honored

New Haven, Conn. – The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced its Bowl Subdivision National Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week for games ending October 13.

About the Award: It is the fourth consecutive year that the Walter Camp Football Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its national “Bowl Subdivision Player of the Week.” Selections are made each week during the regular season by a panel of national media members and publicized by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK DONNIE AVERY, HOUSTON, Senior, Wide Receiver, Houston, TX/Hastings HS Senior wide receiver Donnie Avery set school and Conference USA records for receiving yards (346) and all-purpose yards (427) as Houston came from behind to defeat Rice University, 56-48. Avery caught 13 passes for 346 yards and two touchdowns (67 and 77 yards) as the Cougars – who racked up 748 yards of total offense scored the final 21 points of the contest to improve to 33-21 in Conference USA.

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK NICK REED, OREGON, Junior, Defensive End, Trabuco Canyon, CA/Mission Viejo HS Junior defensive end Nick Reed had 3.5 quarterback sacks and a team-high 11 tackles (6 solo) as ninth-ranked Oregon rolled to a 53-7 victory over Pac-10 rival Washington State. For the game, Reed registered 5.0 tackles for a total loss of 46 yards as the Ducks recorded their fifth win of the season (5-1, 2-1 in Pac-10).

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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.