http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-footbl/...14aaa.html

Well deserved!

I can't ever remember this happening. I may have to go to Trevor Cobb being the most likely last one to have received a national player of the week type award. Apologies if I've missed someone.

If I remember correctly, Pringle got national special teams player of the week at least once back in the mid-1970s.

http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-footbl/...08aaa.html

Chase Clement and Jarett Dillard shared a national offensive player of the week award after we beat UNT 77-20 and they connected on four TDs passes alone, setting some NCAA career records in the process. I thought Boswell might have gotten a special teams award but I didn't see it in the news archive at riceowls.com

That's awesome, way to go Zack "Sack" Patt!

[Unfortunately, the Football Writers Association of America has persistently repeated an error in their press release since Week 2, when Kyshoen Jarrett won the award. Look in the 5th paragraph: "Jarrett will be added to the 2014 Bronko Nagurski Watch List. " They've been editing the first three paragraphs with details on the winning player & team, but didn't notice they had Jarrett's name in the boilerplate text later on. I've sent them a polite email.]

(11-04-2014 03:17 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  If I remember correctly, Pringle got national special teams player of the week at least once back in the mid-1970s.

Maybe, but you're probably thinking of punter Goofy Landrum, who won it for a win over either Arkansas or the aggies in the 70s.

(11-04-2014 06:05 PM)wrysal Wrote:  

(11-04-2014 03:17 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  If I remember correctly, Pringle got national special teams player of the week at least once back in the mid-1970s.

Maybe, but you're probably thinking of punter Goofy Landrum, who won it for a win over either Arkansas or the aggies in the 70s.

Arkansas.

(11-04-2014 06:20 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(11-04-2014 06:05 PM)wrysal Wrote:  

(11-04-2014 03:17 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  If I remember correctly, Pringle got national special teams player of the week at least once back in the mid-1970s.

Maybe, but you're probably thinking of punter Goofy Landrum, who won it for a win over either Arkansas or the aggies in the 70s.

Arkansas.

Nov. 10, 1973 ... a Rice 17-7 win over Arkansas.

I didn't see any mention of national player of the week honors, but Landrum and linebacker Richard Hollas were the Associated Press Offensive and Defensive "Player of the Week" honorees, respectively.

Mike Lutz's Associated Press story on Landrum began: "Rice punter Mike Landrum -- his friends call him Goofy -- revived the lost art of kicking for the "coffin corner" last week and put the Arkansas Razorbacks in one."

He punted nine times for a 40.3-yard average and pinned the Hogs inside their 11 yard line five times in the second half. Arkansas outgained the freshman-Tommy-Kramer-led Owls, 404-138.

"Landrum's pinpoint accuracy earned him the Associated Press Offensive Player of the Week honor, the first time the award ever has bean presented to a punter," Lutz wrote.

In his story describing the game (on page 5 of the Nov. 15, 1973 Thresher: http://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/ha...sequence=1), T.G. ("The Great") Kahuna said Landrum "provided the only consistent offensive threat" for the Owls.

Richard Hollas earned that week's AP SWC Defensive Player of the Week nod with a late 29-yard Pick 6 that sealed the win -- ending a Rice 5-game losing streak -- and making 11 tackles, including six unassisted.

Hollas' TD was so stirring, Lutz wrote, that "the entire Rice team had gone bananas. Coaches, players, and trainers all mobbed Hollas in the endzone in an emotional outpouring that had been bottled up for five weeks. Freshman player (name not clear: Billy Heal?), taking note of Coach Al Conover's antics, did about 10 yards of cartwheels."

I found a highlight reel video of the game, which shows Conover's antics -- a victorious somersault "turnover" -- but not the freshman's cartwheels ... or any of Landrum's punts: http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/1973-a...6-67aylvkA

nice. That's an Arkansas team that's about 2-3 years removed from losing to Texas for the national championship, right?

(11-05-2014 01:49 PM)I45owl Wrote:  nice. That's an Arkansas team that's about 2-3 years removed from losing to Texas for the national championship, right?

That was 1969.

Billy BB Neal was the cartwheeler.

OUTSTANDING, young man!