Kent State QB Dustin Crum and Tulsa LB Zaven Collins Named Walter Camp FBS Players of the Week, presented by Generation UCAN
The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the Football Bowl Subdivision National Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, presented by Generation UCAN, for games ending November 21.
About the Award: This is the 17th year that the Walter Camp Football Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its national Football Bowl Subdivision player of the week during the regular season. Recipients are selected by a panel of national media members and administered by the Foundation.
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
DUSTIN CRUM, KENT STATE
Senior, Quarterback, Grafton,OH/Midview
Dustin Crum became the first player in Kent State history to throw for three touchdowns and rush for two scores in a game as the Golden Flashes defeated Akron, 69-35. Crum passed for 348 yards (22-of-25) and three scores, while rushing for 104 for two touchdowns. The Golden Flashes are 3-0 for the first time since 1958.
Notes: Dustin Crum is the first Kent State player to earn Walter Camp National Player of the Week honors since 2004.
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
ZAVEN COLLINS, TULSA
Redshirt Junior, Linebacker, Hominy, OK/Hominy
Zaven Collins had a game-high 15 tackles (8 solo) and 0.5 tackles for loss, and recorded one interception which he returned 96 yards for a game-winning touchdown in overtime as 25th-ranked Tulsa (5-1) defeated Tulane, 30-24. Tulsa scored 21 points in the 4th quarter and nine more in overtime for the win that moved the Golden Hurricane to 5-0 in American Athletic Conference play.
Notes: Zaven Collins is the first Tulsa player to earn Walter Camp National Player of the Week honors since 2004.
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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 (www.waltercamp.org,@WalterCampFF) – 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 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
