Reggie Bush Carries the Heisman
The fleet-footed USC tailback, who was fifth in the voting last year, was named college football’s best player Saturday night, doing an end run around teammate Matt Leinart – last year’s Heisman winner – and Texas quarterback Vince Young.
The junior is USC’s seventh Heisman winner, tying the Trojans with Notre Dame for the most.
Completing a wondrous week, Bush picked up two other postseason honors Thursday by winning the Walter Camp Football Foundation Player of the Year award and the Doak Walker award, which goes each year to the country’s top running back. Bush is the first Trojan to win the Walker award.
Bush, the 39th recipient of the Camp award, is the fifth USC player to capture the honor voted on by Division I-A coaches and sports information directors. O.J. Simpson (1967 and 1968), Charles White (1979), Marcus Allen (1981) and Matt Leinart (2004) were the others.
Other finalists for the Camp award included Leinart, Young, Notre Dame QB Brady Quinn and Ohio State linebacker A.J. Hawk.
Bush has rushed for 1,658 yards and 15 touchdowns this season, averaging 8.9 yards a carry.
He is averaging 217.6 all-purpose yards per game this season for the undefeated and top-ranked Trojans, who have won 34 straight games. USC (12-0) will play No. 2-ranked Texas in the Rose Bowl Jan. 4 for the national championship.
The member of a Trojan offensive unit that averages 50 points a game, Bush was named the PAC-10’s Offensive Player of the Year. In his final two games of the regular season, he had 554 rushing yards, including a career-best 294-yard effort in a win over Fresno State Nov. 19. In that game, Bush totaled a Pac-10 record 513 all-purpose yards.
Bush and the members of the 2005 Walter Camp All-America team will be honored at the organization's national awards banquet Feb. 11 at the Yale University Commons in New Haven, Conn.
Bush also was named the team's Most Valuable Player Dec. 13 at the annual awards banquet in Beverly Hills.
It was his second consecutive team MVP honor. He also won USC's Jack Oakie "Rise and Shine" Award for the longest play (84-yard punt return versus Washington) and was USC's Player of the Game versus Notre Dame (265 all-purpose yards) and Co-Player of the Game versus UCLA (260 rushing yards).
All-American offensive guard Taitusi Lutui and All-Pac-10 first team defensive end Frostee Rucker, both seniors, shared USC's Most Inspirational Player Award. Lutui also received the Offensive Lineman of the Year and Co-Lifter Awards.
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