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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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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