Walter Camp Distinguished American Award
The Walter Camp Distinguished American Award is presented by the Walter Camp Football Foundation to an individual who has used his or her talents to attain great success in business, private life or public service and who may have accomplished that which no other has done. The recipient does not have to have participated in football but must understand its lesson of self-denial, cooperation and teamwork and who is a person of honesty, integrity and dedication. He or she must be a leader, an innovator, even a pioneer, who has reached a degree of  excellence which distinguished him or her from contemporaries and who lives within the principles of Walter Camp. Honorees. 1978—Jim Crowley, "Notre Dame" 1979—Sonny Werblin, "Rutgers" 1980—George Halas, "Illinois" 1980—Alexander Haig, "United States Military Academy" 1981—Red Grange, "Illinois" 1982—Eddie Robinson, "Grambling State" 1983—Tom Harmon, "Michigan" 1984—Bill Carpenter, "United States Military Academy" 1985—Bob Hope 1986—Tom Landry, "Texas" 1987—Weeb Ewbank, "Miami (OH)" 1988—Sid Luckman, "Columbia" / Y. A. Tittle, "Louisiana State" 1989—Dick Kazmaier, "Princeton" / Burt Reynolds, "Florida State" 1990—Tex Schramm, "Texas" 1991—Alex Kroll, "Rutgers" / Susan Saint James, "Connecticut College  1992—Carmen Cozza, Miami (OH) / Yale" 1993—Theodore Hesburgh 1994—Paul Tagliabue, "Georgetown" 1995—Keith Jackson, "Washington State" 1996—Dick Ebersol, "Yale" 1997—Steve Largent, "Tulsa" 1998—Steve Young, "Brigham Young" 1999—Bo Schembechler, "Miami (OH)" 2000—Gene Upshaw, "Texas A&I" 2001—New York City Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Service Personnel and Port Authority Police 2002—Regis Philbin, "Notre Dame" 2003—Bill Walsh, "San Jose State" 2004—Pat Summerall, "Arkansas" 2005—Arthur Blank, "Babson" 2006—Dick Vermeil, "San Jose State" 2007—Frank Broyles, "Georgia Tech" 2008—Len Dawson, "Purdue" 2009—Robin Roberts, "Southeastern Louisiana" 2010—Chuck Bednarik, "Pennsylvania" 2011 —Floyd Little, "Syracuse" 2012—Tom Osborne, "Hastings" 2013—Joe Theismann, "Notre Dame" 2014—Verne Lundquist, "Texas Lutheran" 2015—Timothy Shriver, "Yale" 2016—Mike Ditka, "Pitt" 2017—Lee Corso, "Florida State" 2018—Archie Manning, "Ole Miss" 2019—Chris Berman, "Brown"