The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the Football Bowl Subdivision National Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week for games ending September 6. About the Award: This is the 22nd year that the Walter Camp Football Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its national Football Bowl Subdivision player of the […]
Walter Camp FBS Player of Week Facts Background The Walter Camp National FBS Player of Week award began in 2004. It is the longest- running Player of Week award in college football. 116 different schools have had either an Offensive or Defensive Player of the Week during that time. All-time Recipients (2004 to 2024) – […]
The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the Football Bowl Subdivision National Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week for games ending September 1. About the Award: This is the 22nd year that the Walter Camp Football Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its national Football Bowl Subdivision player of the […]
The Walter Camp Football Foundation, caretaker of the nation’s oldest college football All-America team, along with the newly formed Gridiron 1880 Network announced a partnership with Wild Society Nutrition, the next-generation performance fuel company founded by two-time UFC Champion TJ Dillashaw, to power the weekly Walter Camp College Football Game Changer award. The Game Changer […]
The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the names of forty-six “players to watch” for its 2025 Player of the Year award, the nation’s fourth-oldest individual college football accolade, and presented by Crabtree Lexus of New Haven. The 2025 watch list includes 38 offensive players (22 quarterbacks, 11 running backs, four receivers/tight ends and one […]
The Walter Camp Football Foundation will recognize host several individuals at its “Ring of Honor” dinner and awards ceremony on Sunday, July 13 at 5 p.m. at Race Brook Country Club in Orange. Tickets to the July 13 event are $200 each and a table of nine is $1700. Visit https://waltercamp.org/roh-2025-dinner/#get-tickets or contact Ernie Williams […]
Veteran athletics administrator at Boston College Jamie DiLoreto will be recognized as a Walter Camp Football Foundation Honorary Member at the organization’s Ring of Honor dinner on Sunday, July 13 in Orange, Conn. Honorary Member designation is bestowed to an individual who has been a supporter of the Walter Camp Foundation and its various activities, […]
A Little History Walter Camp is the nation’s oldest college football All-America team. Considered the “Father of American Football,” Walter Camp introduced the play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side in 1880. Nine years later in 1889, Mr. Camp, then […]
Former TCU associate athletic director Mark Cohen will be honored with the Walter Camp Sports Communicator Award. The Walter Camp Sports Communicator award is named in memory of Bill Keish, who was a longtime Foundation member and chairman of the public relations committee. The award originated as the Foundation’s “Media Appreciation” award. It was awarded […]
Long-time Walter Camp Foundation member and Past President William (Bill) O’Brien will be honored as the first recipient of the Walter Camp “Champion of Community” award. O’Brien, resident of Branford and member of the Foundation since 1973, will be honored on Sunday, July 13 at 5 p.m. at Race Brook Country Club in Orange as […]
