Walter Camp Distinguished American Award
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The Walter Camp Distinguished American Award recipient is an individual who has utilized his or her talents to attain great success in business, private life or public service and who may have accomplished that which no other has done.
The recipient does not have to have participated in football but must understand its lesson of self-denial, cooperation and teamwork and who is a person of honesty, integrity and dedication. He or she must be a leader, an innovator, even a pioneer, who has reached a degree of excellence which distinguished him or her from contemporaries and who lives within the principles of Walter Camp.
[edit] Walter Camp Distinguished American Award Honorees
2007—Frank Broyles, Georgia Tech
2006—Dick Vermeil, San Jose State
2005—Arthur Blank, Babson
2004—Pat Summerall, Arkansas
2003—Bill Walsh, San Jose State
2002—Regis Philbin, Notre Dame
2001—New York City Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Service Personnel
2000—Gene Upshaw, Texas A&I
1999—Bo Schembechler, Miami (Ohio)
1998—Steve Young, Brigham Young
1997—Steve Largent, Tulsa
1996—Dick Ebersol, Yale
1995—Keith Jackson, Washington State
1994—Paul Tagliabue, Georgetown
1993—Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C.
1992—Cami Cozza, Miami (Ohio)/Yale
1991—Alexander Kroll, Rutgers
1990—Tex Schramm, Texas
1989—Richard Kazmaier, Princeton
1989—Burt Reynolds, Florida State
1988—Sid Luckman/Y.A. Tittle, Columbia/Louisiana State
1987—Weeb Ewbank, Miami (Ohio)
1986—Tom Landry, Texas
1985—Bob Hope
1984— Maj. Gen. Bill Carpenter, Army
1983—Tom Harmon, Michigan
1982— Eddie Robinson, Grambling State
1981—Harold "Red" Grange, Illinois
1980—Alexander Haig, Army
1980 —George Halas, Illinois
1979— David "Sonny” Werblin, Rutgers
1978—James Crowley; Notre Dame
[edit] References
Walter Camp Football Foundation Awards - List of recipients
[edit] See also
- Walter Camp Man of the Year
- Walter Camp Distinguished American Award
- Walter Camp Alumni of the Year
- Amos Alonzo Stagg Award
- National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award
- National Football Foundation Gold Medal Winners
- Theodore Roosevelt Award (NCAA)
