News release from Texas A&M Athletics:
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Texas A&M football’s Nic Scourton was named to the Walter Camp All-America Second Team, announced Thursday evening at the Home Depot College Football Awards Show.
Scourton is third in the SEC and ranks 19th nationally with 14.0 tackles for loss, while his 10.0 tackles for loss in conference play ranked second in the league. The Lott IMPACT Trophy finalist and All-SEC First Team honoree registered at least 1.0 tackle for loss in eight games this season. The junior lands at 19th in the SEC with 5.0 sacks on the season. Scourton filled the stat sheet in the win over Arkansas with a pass breakup and a quarterback hurry, while all four of his tackles were for a total of 16 yards lost and one of his 2.0 sacks was a strip sack late in the fourth quarter to seal the victory.
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.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game’s predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients.