Dumervil Named As Player of the Year Candidate
November 14, 2005 | Football
Nov. 14, 2005
New Haven, Conn. - - Senior defensive end Elvis Dumervil of the University of Louisville was named as one of the Walter Camp Football Foundation 10 "Players to Watch" for its 2005 Player of the Year award, the fourth-oldest individual college football award in the nation.
Dumervil leads the nation in sacks with 20 and forced fumbles with 10, a new NCAA record. The 6-0 senior from Miami, Fla., leads the Cardinals in tackles with 56 and tackles for loss with 22.5. He broke the single-season NCAA record for forced fumbles in a season with 10 and sacks in consecutive games with nine. He also broke the NCAA single-game record for sacks with six versus Kentucky.
The 2005 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, who is voted on by the 119 Division I-A head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced live on the 6:00 p.m. edition of ESPN SportsCenter on Thursday, December 8. The winner will then receive his trophy at the Foundation's annual national awards banquet on Saturday, February 11, 2006 at the Yale University Commons in New Haven. Tickets ($250) are available by calling (203) 288-CAMP.
Last year's recipient USC quarterback Matt Leinart is on the Watch List for the third consecutive season.
In fact, five Pac-10 players - Leinart and USC teammate Reggie Bush, UCLA's Drew Olson and Maurice Drew as well as Washington State's Jerome Harrison - made the Watch List. Three defensive players - Louisville's Elvis Dumervil and linebackers Paul Posluszny (Penn State) and A.J. Hawk (Ohio State) - were also recognized.
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.
