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08-19-2005, 07:54 AM
Aug. 18, 2005
FORT WORTH, Texas -- TCU quarterback Tye Gunn is included on the preseason watch list for the 2005 Davey O'Brien Award, presented annually to the nation's best college quarterback.
The O'Brien Award is the oldest and most prestigious award in the country for college quarterbacks and is named in honor of the late Davey O'Brien. O'Brien led TCU to the 1938 national championship and was the first player to win the Heisman, Walter Camp and Maxwell Awards in the same season.
A senior from LaGrange, Texas, Gunn is TCU's career leader in completion percentage (58.3). He has a 10-2 record as a starter with the Frogs averaging 34.3 points per game.
Gunn's .833 winning percentage as a starter ranks second at TCU, behind only Howard Grubbs (17-2-1, .875, 1928-29). Gunn's 10-game winning streak as a starter is third all-time for the Frogs. Sammy Baugh (1934-36) and O'Brien (1936-38) are the leaders at 12 and 11 games, respectively.
Semifinalists will be announced in early November as voted on by the O'Brien Selection Committee, a nationwide panel of sportswriters and commentators as well as former O'Brien Award winners. The committee will narrow the field to three finalists and then the winner, which will be announced on the Home Depot College Football Awards Show on Dec. 8. The winner will also be honored Feb. 20 at the 29th annual Davey O'Brien Awards Dinner at The Fort Worth Club in downtown Fort Worth.
The Davey O'Brien Foundation was established in 1977 to present the O'Brien Memorial Trophy, recognizing annually the outstanding college football player in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. In 1981, the award was redirected to be national in scope but limited to quarterback, the favorite position of the award's namesake. The award carries with it a $10,000 grant to the scholarship program of the university in which the winner is enrolled. A high school scholarship program began in 1986, awarding annually a $20,000 college scholarship to an outstanding senior student-athlete in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
Since 1977, the Davey O'Brien Foundation has awarded over $248,000 to the various O'Brien winners' universities and more than $380,000 to deserving high school students.
FORT WORTH, Texas -- TCU quarterback Tye Gunn is included on the preseason watch list for the 2005 Davey O'Brien Award, presented annually to the nation's best college quarterback.
The O'Brien Award is the oldest and most prestigious award in the country for college quarterbacks and is named in honor of the late Davey O'Brien. O'Brien led TCU to the 1938 national championship and was the first player to win the Heisman, Walter Camp and Maxwell Awards in the same season.
A senior from LaGrange, Texas, Gunn is TCU's career leader in completion percentage (58.3). He has a 10-2 record as a starter with the Frogs averaging 34.3 points per game.
Gunn's .833 winning percentage as a starter ranks second at TCU, behind only Howard Grubbs (17-2-1, .875, 1928-29). Gunn's 10-game winning streak as a starter is third all-time for the Frogs. Sammy Baugh (1934-36) and O'Brien (1936-38) are the leaders at 12 and 11 games, respectively.
Semifinalists will be announced in early November as voted on by the O'Brien Selection Committee, a nationwide panel of sportswriters and commentators as well as former O'Brien Award winners. The committee will narrow the field to three finalists and then the winner, which will be announced on the Home Depot College Football Awards Show on Dec. 8. The winner will also be honored Feb. 20 at the 29th annual Davey O'Brien Awards Dinner at The Fort Worth Club in downtown Fort Worth.
The Davey O'Brien Foundation was established in 1977 to present the O'Brien Memorial Trophy, recognizing annually the outstanding college football player in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. In 1981, the award was redirected to be national in scope but limited to quarterback, the favorite position of the award's namesake. The award carries with it a $10,000 grant to the scholarship program of the university in which the winner is enrolled. A high school scholarship program began in 1986, awarding annually a $20,000 college scholarship to an outstanding senior student-athlete in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
Since 1977, the Davey O'Brien Foundation has awarded over $248,000 to the various O'Brien winners' universities and more than $380,000 to deserving high school students.