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Show The Salt Lake Tribune COLLEGE FOOTBALL Staley WALKER AWARD FINALISTS Caries Yeats Luke Staley, BYU 11 19% 1582 Travis Stephens, Tennessee 1 2771427 Bruce Perry, Maryland 11 219 1242 Ag 81 «52 «57 TDs 24 «(10 10 Friday, December7, 2001 THE SCOOP ON STALEY ‘Opponent Feat ‘Statey'sPerformance Tulane Nevada Cal UNLV the award at the beginning of the McDonald-Ashford was lost for Utah State Season, because school officials the season with a knee injury. The New Mexico @ Continued from C-1 did not know how much to expect lone exception came Oct.13 at Air Force from a player whose freshman New Mexico, when administraSan Diego State and eesseasons were limWilliam Greene led the nation in ited by injuries. Asane ‘season Colorado State rushing but was suspended for progressed, e organizbreaking team rules and nearly Wyoming vddeasaieniwes BYUto quit his team. Led Nation In Scoring — didn't mind, though. ‘The easygoing junior even joked that he should be sure to thank Foster and Greeneforhelping him win. The award “says a lot about our team and what we'vedonethis season,” Staley said. The lead thenation in offense and have won 14 straight games dating to last season. The turnaround after going only 66 last season can be traced in large part to Staley, who was healthy entering this season for the first year said that allowed Staley to conditionhis entire body — Staley is 6 foot-1, 228 pounds — rather than just rehabilitate its injured parts. Staley was not promoted for ask why such agood player hadn't been nominated.Staley was made an instantsemifinalist. “Tm excited for Luke,” Crowton said. “He deserves it.. . I'm very appreciative of that ouage tee for recognizing him, cially when he wasn’t an oy candidate. That meanta lot to me. That showed me they want the best players outthere.” Andit would be hard to argue that Staley wasn’tthe best of the bunch. Starting with a dazzling per- formance against Tulane in the season opener, when he ran for 142 yards and three touchdowns onjust 10 carries, Staley has been a major weaponin all but one of BYU’s games, particularly after fellow running back Brian the next week to continue his torTid season. ° Utah Mississippi State W,70-35 W, 52-7 W, 44-16 W, 35-31 W, 54-34 W, 24:20° W, 63-33 W,59-21 W, 56-34 W,41-34 Ran for 143yards and 3 touchdowns on just 10 caries. Ran for 124 yards and 2 touchdowns — all in first half. Scored Cougs’ first touchdown, but held to 47 rush yards. Scored only touchdown on a pass, and ran for 77 yards. Gained a career-high 207 yards and scored five touchdowns. Missed game due to uncertainty about academic eligibility. Gained 134 yards and 2 touchdowns on only 14 carries. Had 165 yards and 3 TDs,including season-high 63-yarder. Only game in which he ran for five TDs; also had 196 yards. Ran for 172 yards and 4 touchdowns — including game-winner. W, 24-21 Scored last two touchdowns to win,after running for 169 yards. W, 41-38 Gained 149 yards but did not score before breaking leg at the end. Staley ran for 100 yards or more nine times this season and led the nation in scoring at 15.5 — per game. Hehas said = virtually demands the on the Cougars get within ct of the goal line, and he already has 48 career touchdowns, eight more than Jamal Willis’ old career record at BYU. “It’s bad to say this, but I don’t want anyoneelse to doit,” he said. “If I have the opportunity,I'm going to do mybestto get in there.” Andthe best news for Cougar fans? Notonly has Staleysaid he’s coming back forhis senior season, but Crowtonsaid he might be back for the Liberty Bowlagainst Lou- isville on Dec. 31. Dorsey Awarded Maxwell, Crouch Gets O’Brien ¢ ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKE BUENAVISTA, Fla. — Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey won the Maxwell Award and Nebraska’s Eric Crouch took the Davey O’Brien quarterback trophy Thursday night during the college football awards show. Dorsey and Crouch are two of the four Heisman Trophyfinal- ists, along with Florida's Rex lege football’'s top individual award, will be presented Satirdaynightin New York. Dorsey, who led No. 1 Miami toa perfect season and spot ina national title game in the Rose Bowl, was chosen over Grossman and 5 The Maxwell, voted on by Di- vision I-A coaches, the Football Writers Association of America and members of the Philadelphia-based Maxwell Football Club, goes to the best all-around player. Dorsey completed 184 of 318 passesfor 2,652 yards with 23 TDs and nineinterceptions. Crouch won the O’Brien aie tees award over Grossand Harrington. 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