Walter Camp Award
The Walter Camp Award ( Walter Camp Player of the Year Award) is an honor that is awarded annually to the player of the year in U.S. college football.
Entitled to vote
Entitled to vote, each member of the Walter Camp Football Foundation ( WCFF ). To help guide this is the choice for All-American team, which by the college football coaches in the College Football teams that are located in the NCAA Division 1A, as well as the directors of these sports teams, done annually. The selection to the All- American team is organized by the WCFF that sends the appropriate ballot papers and analyzes.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation has, among others, the task of maintaining the memory of the former football coach and promoter of American football Sports Walter Camp. Camp has been crucial in the development and emergence percentage rule in the early years of this sport. He had in 1889 compiled the first nationwide all-American team.
The WCFF award more prizes, so the Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award, to the best college football coach of the year. The WCFF can join in interest of any football fan. The cooperation is voluntary.
The Walter Camp Award has been awarded since 1967. In addition to the WCFF other organizations award annual prizes for the best college football player of the year, such as the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award, which no matter what the position they play from all players can be won or prizes for players who at certain positions be used, such as the Doak Walker Award, which is designed for running backs or the Dick Butkus Award, which is awarded to the best linebacker.