The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Hall named Rimington Trophy finalist
12.04.2009 | Football
Dec. 4, 2009
Senior C Chris Hall has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 Rimington Trophy, honoring the nation's top center, the Boomer Esiason Foundation has announced.
Hall is fifth-year lineman who has played in 43 games, starting 35, during his career. This season, he has been named to the American Football Coaches Association All-America Team and has started every game at center, helping lead the Longhorns to a 12-0 record and the nation's third-ranked scoring offense. After starting at all five offensive line positions during his sophomore year, he took over at center following an injury to starter Dallas Griffin late in the season. He started all 11 games in which he played during his junior year, missing two due to injury and was a second-team All-Big 12 selection.
A four-time Academic All-Big 12 selection, he graduated this spring with a degree in communication studies/human relations. He is a four-time member of UT's Athletics Director's Honor Roll and is very active in UT's community service program. He is part of a group of Longhorns that regularly visits patients at the Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin.
The winner of the Rimington Trophy will be announced during the ESPNU/Home Depot College Football Awards show, broadcast live from Orlando, Fla., on ESPN on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. The winner is selected by determining the consensus All-American center pick from four existing All-America teams - American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp Foundation, Sporting News and Football Writers Association of America.
The winner will be recognized at the Rimington Trophy Presentation at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln, Neb., on Sat., January 16, 2010. The five other finalists include John Estes of Hawaii, Jake Kirkpatrick of TCU, Maurkice Pouncey of Florida, Matthew Tennant of Boston College and J.D. Walton of Baylor.
The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the Most Outstanding Center in NCAA Division I-A College Football. Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy has raised over $1.3 million for its benefactor, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The ten-year old award is overseen by the Boomer Esiason Foundation, which is committed to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis and has raised over $73 million for CF Research.
Dave Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman.
