Keenum A Finalist For Another Award
12/2/2009 12:00:00 AM | Football
HOUSTON - University of Houston junior quarterback Case Keenum's spectacular 2009 campaign received yet more national attention, as he was named on Wednesday as a finalist for the Walter Camp Football Foundation 2009 Player of the Year award. Keenum is also a finalist for the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award and the Manning Award.
Keenum is joined on this list by last year's recipient Colt McCoy of Texas, as well as Florida's Tim Tebow, Alabama's Mark Ingram and Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh.
Keenum currently leads the nation in total offense (420.17 ypg.), passing (410.17 ypg.) and touchdown passes (38). He has led the No. 18 Cougars to a 10-2 overall record and a spot in Saturday's Conference USA Championship game versus East Carolina.
Keenum has thrown a touchdown pass in 28 consecutive games and also leads the nation in touchdowns per game at 2.53. He has posted the nation's top three passing performances this season, throwing for 559 versus Southern Miss, 544 at UTEP and 522 at Tulsa. He has been named the C-USA Offensive Player of the Week six times this season.
The 2009 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, who is voted on by the Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be presented live on Thursday, Dec. 10 during the 6 p.m. edition of ESPN SportsCenter. The winner will receive his trophy at the Foundation's annual national awards banquet on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010 at the Yale University Commons in New Haven.
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 continue the tradition of selecting an annual All-America team.
The Walter Camp Football 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.
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