Stanford’s Toby Gerhart and Ohio State’s Cameron Heyward earn weekly

honors

New Haven, Conn. – The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced

its Bowl Championship Subdivision National Offensive and Defensive

Players of the Week for games ending November 7.

About the Award: This is the sixth year that the Walter Camp Football

Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its

national Bowl Subdivision player of the week during the regular season.

Recipients are selected by a panel of national media members and

administered by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

TOBY GERHART, STANFORD

Senior, Running Back, Norco, CA/Norco

Stanford running back Toby Gerhart set a school single-game record with

223 rushing yards (on 38 carries) as the Cardinal defeated 7th-ranked

Oregon, 51-42. For the game, Gerhart scored three touchdowns as

Stanford (6-3, 5-2 in Pac 10) became bowl eligible for the first time

since 2001.

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

CAMERON HEYWARD, OHIO STATE

Junior, Defensive Tackle, Suwanee, GA/Peachtree Ridge

Ohio State defensive tackle Cameron Heyward recorded a game-high 11

tackles, including three for losses, and two quarterback sacks as the

Buckeyes defeated Big Ten-rival and 11th-ranked Penn State, 24-7.

Heyward led an Ohio State (8-2, 5-1 in Big Ten) defensive unit that

allowed just 201 yards of total offense.

Walter Camp, “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 – 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.