Three C-USA Football Players Named to Rimington Trophy Watch List
May 7, 2008
The Rimington Trophy committee has released its 2008 Spring Watch List and Conference USA has three players in the grouping. Houston junior Carl Barnett, Memphis senior Philip Beliles and UTEP senior Robby Felix represent C-USA on the 42-person list for the award that is given to the nation's top collegiate center. While more than a dozen All-America football teams are selected annually, the Rimington Trophy committee uses these four prestigious teams to determine a winner: American Football Coaches Association
Walter Camp Foundation The Sporting News Football Writers Association of America Because the selectors of these four All-America teams can place Centers in a "mix" of offensive linemen that includes guards and tackles, their 11-man first teams can often have two Centers. Our policy is to count all players that play primarily the Center position for their respective teams as Centers, even though they may be listed as guards or tackles on the four All-American teams. The Center with the most first team votes will be determined the winner. If there is a tie with first team votes, then the Center with the most second team votes will win. If there is still a tie, the winner will be determined by the Rimington Trophy committee. The winner will be honored at the Rimington Trophy Presentation banquet at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln, Nebraska on January 17, 2009. The Boomer Esiason Foundation presents the nine-year old trophy. Past recipients include Nebraska's Dominic Raiola, Ohio State's LeCharles Bentley, Miami's Brett Romberg, Virginia Tech's Jake Grove, co-winners Michigan's David Baas and LSU's Ben Wilkerson, Minnesota's Greg Eslinger, West Virginia's Dan Mozes and Arkansas' Jonathan Luigs. Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy has raised over $1.3 million for the award's benefactor, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which is hosted by the Boomer Esiason Foundation that to date has raised over $65 million for CF research. Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first team All-America Center at Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman. The Rimington Trophy is a fully accredited member of the National College Football Awards Association.
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