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Grigsby
garners first all-America honor of 2004
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[DEC.
11, 2004]
NEW
HAVEN, Conn. -- Illinois State's Boomer Grigsby received the 11th
postseason all-America honor of his career and the first this season
on Friday, when he was one of the 25 players named to the 2004
Walter Camp I-AA All-America Team.
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Grigsby, from Canton, Ill., was one of three Gateway Football
Conference selections, joining Western Kentucky's Buster Ashley and
Southern Illinois' Elmer McDaniel. The only three-time defensive
player of the year in the league, Grigsby finished his career with
Gateway, NCAA and Illinois State career tackle records with 580
stops. The team of honorees is selected by the head coaches and
sports information directors of the Division I-AA football schools
and certified by UHY Advisors, a New Haven-based accounting firm.
With the selection, Grigsby became the first Redbird to be named a
Walter Camp All-American since punter Mike McCabe was honored in
1988.
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Walter Camp, "the father of American football," first selected an
all-America team in 1889. A former Yale athlete and football coach,
he is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays,
the numerical assessment of goals and tries, and the restriction of
play to 11 men per side.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation, a New Haven-based
all-volunteer group, was founded in 1967 to perpetuate Camp's ideals
by continuing the tradition of selecting all-America teams for I-A
and I-AA.
[Todd Kober,
assistant athletics director, media relations,
Illinois
State University]
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