Peterson on Walter Camp Watch List

NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma running back Adrian Peterson is one of 40 players on the Walter Camp Watch List that was announced today.

The award is presented each year to the outstanding player in college football. It is the nation's fourth-oldest individual accolade.

Peterson rushed for a school record 1,925 yards last season. It was the best mark ever posted by a freshman. He finished as the runner-up in the Heisman Trophy balloting and also was a finalist for the Maxwell and Doak Walker Awards.

The Camp watch list will be narrowed to ten semi-finalists in early November. The 2005 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 119 Division I-A head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced on the ESPN/Home Depot College Football Awards Show in December.

The winner will then receive his trophy at the Foundation's annual national awards banquet on February 11, 2006 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 to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.

University of Oklahoma Athletics

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