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Message: [QUOTE="CuseLegacy, post: 2415622, member: 469"] [SIZE=6][B][URL='https://waltercamp.org/syracuse-university-wr-and-west-haven-resident-ervin-philips-named-walter-camp-connecticut-player-of-the-year/']Syracuse University WR and West Haven resident Ervin Philips Named Walter Camp Connecticut Player of the Year [/URL][/B][/SIZE] December 11, 2017/in [URL='https://waltercamp.org/category/wcf-news/']News[/URL] /by [URL='https://waltercamp.org/author/al-carbone/']Al Carbone[/URL] Syracuse University senior wide receiver [B]Ervin Philips (West Haven, CT)[/B] has been selected the Walter Camp 2017 Connecticut Player of the Year. The award is presented to the top college football player who is a resident and/or played scholastically in the state of Connecticut. The award is voted on by the Walter Camp Football Foundation membership. [URL='https://waltercamp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Philips_ErvinCCSU2017_2-WEB.jpg'][IMG]https://waltercamp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Philips_ErvinCCSU2017_2-WEB-231x300.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='https://waltercamp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-Walter-Camp-Connecticut-Player-of-Year-Ervin-Philips.pdf']2017 Walter Camp Connecticut Player of Year – Ervin Philips[/URL] Philips is the fifth Syracuse player to earn the honor, joining former Orange standouts Dwight Freeney (2001), Kyle McIntosh (1997), Rob Thomson (1990) and Terry Wooden (1989). A Second Team Atlantic Coast Conference honoree in 2017, Philips recorded 89 receptions for 904 yards and four touchdowns. His 89 receptions were second only to SU teammate Steve Ishmael, a Walter Camp Second Team All-America honoree, in the ACC. Philips also ranks sixth in the country in receptions per game (7.7) and 38th in receiving yards. Philips had two 100-yard receiving performances, including a career-best 188 on a school-record 17 receptions on Sept. 30 versus North Carolina State. Philips also posted four receptions for 94 yards and one touchdown in an upset victory over top-ranked Clemson on Oct. 13. In 2016, Philips recorded 90 receptions for 822 yards and six touchdowns and earned All-ACC Honorable Mention. For his collegiate career, Philips had 223 receptions, which ranks second in school history, for 2,069 yards, which is the seventh-best total. A native of West Haven, Philips played scholastically for head coach Ed McCarthy at West Haven High School. In his senior year, Philips led the Blue Devils to the Southern Connecticut Conference Division I East title and a berth to the Class LL state semifinals. A consensus All-State honoree, Philips was named the SCC Division I Player of the Year and also earned Walter Camp All-Connecticut honors. Philips set school career records for rushing yards (4,596), touchdowns (88) and total offensive yards (6,182). Philips is the second former Walter Camp All-Connecticut Team scholastic honoree to go on to earn Connecticut Player of the Year collegiate honors, joining former St. Joseph HS and Temple University linebacker (and current Pittsburgh Steeler) Tyler Matakevich. Philips, along with the members of the 2017 Walter Camp All-America team and Player of the Year Baker Mayfield (Oklahoma), Coach of the Year Mark Richt (Miami), along with other major award winners (Alumni Award-Eddie George; Man of the Year-Calvin Johnson; Distinguished American-Lee Corso), will be honored at the organization’s national awards banquet, presented by David McDermott Lexus of New Haven, on Saturday, January 13, 2018 at the Yale University’s Lanman Center. [I]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. Visit [URL="http://www.waltercamp.org"]www.waltercamp.org[/URL] for more information.[/I] [B][U]Connecticut Player of the Year[/U][/B] [I]Presented to the top college football player who is a resident and/or played scholastically in the state of Connecticut. The award is voted on by the Walter Camp Football Foundation membership.[/I] 2017 – Ervin Philips, WR, Syracuse 2016 – Noel Thomas, WR, Connecticut 2015 – Tyler Matakevich, LB, Temple 2014 – Tyler Murphy, QB, Boston College 2013 – Kevin Pierre-Louis, LB, Boston College 2012 – Bjoern Werner, DE, Florida State 2011 – Silas Redd, RB, Penn State 2010 – John Moffitt, OL, Wisconsin 2009 – Aaron Hernandez, TE, Florida 2008 – Kory Sheets, RB, Purdue 2007 – Mike McLeod, RB, Yale 2006 – Kory Sheets, RB, Purdue 2005 – John Sullivan, C, Notre Dame 2004 – Anttaj Hawthorne, DT, Wisconsin; Dan Orlovsky, QB, Connecticut 2003 – Dan Orlovsky, QB, Connecticut 2002 – Niko Koutouvides, LB, Purdue 2001 – Dwight Freeney, DE, Syracuse 2000 – Peter Mazza, LB, Yale 1999 – Bobby Myers, DB, Wisconsin 1998 – Carl Bond, RB, Connecticut 1997 – Kyle McIntosh, RB, Syracuse 1996 – Tarek Salah, LB, Wisconsin 1995 – Tarek Salah, LB, Wisconsin 1994 – Jason Miska, LB, Auburn 1993 – Chris Zingo, LB, Cornell 1992 – Curtis Eller, LB, Villanova 1991 – Corey Vincent, DL, Holy Cross 1990 – Rob Thomson, DB, Syracuse 1989 – Terry Wooden, LB, Syracuse 1988 – Glenn Antrum, WR, Connecticut 1987 – Bill Romanowski, LB, Boston College 1986 – Richard Comizio, RB, Pennsylvania 1985 – Tom Patton, DE, Holy Cross 1984 – No recipient 1983 – Steve Young, QB, Brigham Young 1982 – Mike Marshall, DB, Southern Conn. 1981 – Richard Diana, RB, Yale [/QUOTE]

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