The nation’s oldest All-America Team will be announced on ESPN College Football Awards Show – Friday, Dec. 12 – 7 to 9 p.m.
The 2025 Walter Camp Football Bowl Subdivision All-America First and Second Teams, the nation’s oldest All-America Team, will be announced on the ESPN College Football Awards Show on Friday, Dec. 12 – 7 to 9 p.m.
It is the 136th edition of the nation’s oldest college football All-America team!
A Little History
This is the 136th edition of the Walter Camp All-America team, the nation’s oldest college football All-America team. Twenty-five players were selected to the first team by the 136 Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors. In addition, 27 players were selected to the Second Team. The team was certified by the New Haven-based accounting firm of CBIZ.
- From 1889 to 1964, eleven players were selected.
- In 1965, both offensive and defensive teams were picked.
- In 1972, the first punter (Ray Guy, Southern Mississippi) was honored.
- In 1975, the first placekicker (Chris Bahr, Penn State) was selected.
- In 1998, the first-ever Second Team All-America team was recognized.
- In 2001, the first kick returner (Herb Haygood, Michigan State) was picked.
- In 2024, the first player (Travis Hunter, Colorado) earned First Team honors on both offense and defense.
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, Mr. Camp, then the Yale University head coach, selected the first-ever college football All-America team.
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 www.waltercamp.org for more information. The Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). Founded in 1997, the NCFAA includes college football’s most prestigious awards and its 25 awards have honored more than 950 recipients dating back to 1935.
