Walter Camp Man of the Year


The Walter Camp Man of the Year is one of seven awards given annually by the Walter Camp Football Foundation. The award is given to the "Man of the Year" in the world of college football. The criteria for the award are stated to include success, leadership, public service, integrity, and commitment to American heritage and Walter Camp's philosophy.

Yearly honorees

2016 — Warrick Dunn, Florida State

2015 — Fred Biletnikoff, Florida State and Joe Andruzzi, Southern Connecticut State University

2014 — Jerome Bettis, Notre Dame

2013 — Matt Millen, Penn State

2012 — Herm Edwards, San Diego State

2011 — Harry Carson, South Carolina State

2010 — Will Shields, Nebraska

2009 — John Elway, Stanford

2008 — Morten Andersen, Michigan State

2007 — Dick Butkus, Illinois

2006 — Mike Utley, Washington State

2005 — Dwight Stephenson, Alabama

2004 — Anthony Muñoz, Southern California

2003 — Ozzie Newsome, Alabama

2002 — Jim Kelly, Miami

2001 — Mike Singletary, Baylor

2000 — Howie Long, Villanova

1999 — Gil Brandt, Dallas Cowboys

1998 — Lou Holtz, Kent State University

1997 — Calvin Hill, Yale

1996 — Lynn Swann, Southern California

1995 — Reggie Williams, Dartmouth

1994 — Dick Anderson, Colorado

1993 — Warren Moon, Washington

1992 — Bob Griese, Purdue

1991 — Mel Blount, Southern

1990 — Nick Buoniconti, Notre Dame

1989 — Paul Brown, Miami

1988 — Andy Robustelli, Arnold

1987 — Levi Jackson, Yale

1986 — Willie Davis, Grambling

1985 — Rocky Bleier, Notre Dame

1984 — Don Shula, John Carroll

1983 — Roger Staubach, Navy

1982 — Merlin Olsen, Utah State

1981 — Otto Graham, Northwestern

1980 — Gale Sayers, Kansas

1979 — Jack Kemp, Occidental

1978 — Floyd Little, Syracuse

1977 — Frederick Dunlap, Colgate

1976 — Edward Krause, Notre Dame

1975 — Pete Dawkins, Army

1974 — Jake Gaither, Knoxville College/Florida A&M

1973 — Duffy Daugherty, Syracuse/Michigan State

1972 — Clinton Frank, Yale

1971 — Doc Blanchard, Army

1970 — Harry Kipke, Michigan

1969 — Pete Rozelle, San Francisco

1968 — Ted Blair, Yale

1967 — Hamilton Fish, Harvard