Spitz Named to Rimington List
March 08, 2005 | Football
March 8, 2005
LOUISVILLE - Senior Jason Spitz of the University of Louisville was named to the Dave Rimington spring watch list of top collegiate centers.
Spitz, who has started the last two seasons at guard, will move to center this spring. The senior from Jacksonville, Fla. earned second team All-Conference honors last season and has a string of 25 straight starts.
Awarded annually to the most outstanding center in the country, the Dave Rimington Trophy enters the 2005 season with a strong field of potential stand-out centers.
The six-year old trophy (Nebraska's Dominic Raiola, Ohio State's LeCharles Bentley, Miami's Brett Romberg, Virginia Tech's Jake Grove, Michigan's David Baas and LSU's Ben Wilkerson are past recipients) is presented by Canon USA and Black & Decker. The award is hosted by the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Esiason, created his foundation in 1993 to support research and treatment of cystic fibrosis.
Esiason and Dave Rimington were teammates on the Cincinnati Bengals from 1984-87. Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first team All-America center at Nebraska in 1981 and '82 - years in which he became the John Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's premiere college interior lineman.
