That's when the Walter Camp Football Foundation announced that White, along with 34 other players was on its watch list for the Player of the Year
award, the nation’s fourth-oldest individual college football accolade.
Five players on the 2008 watch list – Ohio State LB James Laurinaitis,
Florida QB Tim Tebow, Texas Tech WR Michael Crabtree, Wisconsin TE Travis Beckum and South Florida DE George Selvie – were named to last year’s
Walter Camp All-America First Team.
White is joined by Selvie, Pitt running back LeSean McCoy and Pitt linebacker Scott McKillop on the list.
The watch list will be narrowed to 15 semi-finalists in early November.
The 2008 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by
the 119 NCAA Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information
directors, will be announced on the ESPN/Home Depot College Football
Awards Show in December. The winner will then receive his trophy at the
Foundation’s annual national awards banquet on January 10, 2009 at the
Yale University Commons in New Haven.
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.