Walter Camp names Trotter and Johnson named Players of the Week
This is the 20th year that the Walter Camp Football Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its national Football Bowl Subdivision player of the week during the regular season. Recipients are selected by a panel of national media members and administered by the Foundation. It is the nation’s longest running Player of Week award.
By Earl Heath
Contributing Sports Writer
Jerimiah Trotter and Dillion Johnson were this weeks Walter Camp Players of the Week.
Trotter had 11 tackles including two sacks. He also returned an interception for a touchdown in the Tigers 31-23 win over #12 Notre Dame.
The Hainsport , New jersey native is the 12th Clemson player to win the award since 2004. He has 40 tackles this season for the TIGERS (5-4, 2-4 ACC).
Jerimiah Trotter (54) returns interception for score vs Notre Dame. Clemson Athletics
The win also was the 166th for Tiger head coach Dabo Sweeney making him the all -time leader in school history.
Dillon Johnson had a career high in attempts (26), yards (256) and touchdowns (four) in helping the Huskies tom a 52-42 win over USC at thew L.A. Coliseum. The Mississippi State transfer never had a 100-yard rushing game in four years.
“It was a special game, man,” said Johnson. “We just wanted to be the most physical team. The last two weeks, we haven’t played up to our standards.”
This is the 20th year that the Walter Camp Football Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its national Football Bowl Subdivision player of the week during the regular season. Recipients are selected by a panel of national media members and administered by the Foundation. It is the nation’s longest running Player of Week award.
Walter Camp is “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 (www.waltercamp.org) – 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.
