Editor's Note: Scott Reiss is traveling to the East Coast this weekend for complete coverage of Andrew Luck's award tour that culminates in New York for the Heisman Trophy announcement this Saturday night.
Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck had a pretty good Thursday; he took home the Walter Camp Award for college football's player of the year, the Maxwell Award for the NCAA most outstanding player, and the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award for the most outstanding senior quarterback. It wasn't a clean sweep, though, as Luck failed to win the Davey O'Brien Award for the nation's best quarterback, which was given to Baylor quarterback Robert Robert Griffin III.
TOMPKINS: Luck, best player in college football, won't win HeismanLuck threw for 3,170 yards and a school-record 35 touchdowns as a senior, leading No. 4 Stanford to an 11-1 record and a bid to play No. 3 Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl.For the Walter Camp, he beat out Griffin III, Houston quarterback Case Keenum, Alabama running back Trent Richardson and LSU defensive back Tyrann Mathieu.
Luck joins former Cardinal quarterback Jim Plunkett as the only Stanford players to win the Walter Camp and Maxwell awards.Luck is 31-6 as a starter at Stanford and holds school career records with 80 touchdowns passing, a 66.4 percent completion percentage and 10,043 yards of total offense. He has a 3.48 grade-point average as an architectural design major.
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The Walter Camp award is not always a bellwether for the Heisman. Since 2000, only five players - Cam Newton (2010), Troy Smith (2006), Reggie Bush (2005), Matt Leinart (2004) and Eric Crouch (2001) - have won both awards in the same season.Bush later had his Heisman stripped from him.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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