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Ray Guy Award ...122 Lou Groza Award ...123 Ray Guy Award ..................... 122 All-Time Lettermen ...... 143-147 Lou Groza Award .................. 123 Tigers in the Pros ......... 148-149 Honored Tigers ............. 124-130 All-Time Series Record . 150-153 All-Star Games .................... 131 Year-by-Year Results ... 154-159 Retired Jerseys ................... 132 Tiger Milestones ................. 160 Bowl History ................ 133-139 Tiger Timeline ............... 161-168 Undefeated Teams ................ 140 Home of the Tigers ............... 164 All-Time Coaches .......... 141-142 Conference Affiliations ....167-168 Ray Guy Award Former University of Memphis punter Tom Horn- sey was named the 2013 Ray Guy Award winner. The award is annually presented to the nation’s best punter. Hornsey received the award on December 12, 2013, at The Home Depot College Football Awards broadcasted by ESPN. Ray Guy, the College Hall of Fame punter who played at Southern Miss and went on to have a 14-year career in the NFL with the Oak- land and Los Angeles Raiders, presented the award. Hornsey received one of nine National College Media Football Awards Association (NCFAA) awards during the evening. During the evening he was also named a member of the Walter Camp All-America Second Team. He is only the second player from the U of M to be named a Walter Camp All-American with the other being DeAngelo Williams in 2005. Hornsey was included on the 2013 NCAA FBS Consensus College Football Team. The recognition is determined by a point system computed from All-America teams named by the American Football Coaches Association and select media sources. Coaching Staff Coaching Hornsey was named to the American Football Coaches Association’s All-America Team. He was a First-Team All-America selection by the Associated Tom Hornsey is congratulated by Ray Guy after being named the Ray Guy Award winner as the nation’s best punter in 2013. Press, the Football Writers Association of America, Athlon Sports and USA Today. under 40 yards, he placed a total of eight of 13 punts Player of the Week honor, becoming just the second During his senior season Hornsey ranked eighth inside opponents’ 20-yard line. punter to receive the honor twice during the year. nationally with a 45.2 punting average while helping During his career, Hornsey had 34 games in Hornsey averaged a season-best 51.7 yards the Tigers post a 41.02 net punting average which which he averaged 40+ yards, three shy of an NCAA against Houston, which ranked seventh in school his- Players ranked fourth in the country. During the year he had record. tory, and also averaged 50.5 yards against Temple on three of the 15 highest game punting averages in Hornsey was the inaugural winner of the Ray Senior Day. Memphis history. Guy Award Player of the Week award when he aver- In addition to his statistical numbers, Hornsey Hornsey placed 29 of 62 punts inside opponents’ aged 49.6 yards per punt against Middle Tennessee. was a member of Justin Fuente’s second Leadership 20-yard line (.468). The .468 percentage ranked fifth He placed two of his five punts inside the Blue Raid- Council at the University of Memphis. He was a game nationally while the 29 punts downed inside the 20 ers’ 20 and had a 68-yarder in the game. Coupled captained all 12 contests during the year. tied for third among FBS punters through the regular with a career-long, 79-yard punt the previous week season. He only had four of his punts go into the end against Duke, he had two of the 10 longest punts in zone for touchbacks while opponents managed just FBS football through the first three weeks of the col- 19 returns for 136 yards. lege season. A two-time Ray Guy Award Player of the Week, Hornsey would also have a 70-yard punt against 2013 Review Hornsey averaged 40+ yards 10 times during the UT Martin en route to a 46.8 yard average in the Ti- season. In the two games in which he averaged just gers’ win against UT Martin. He was recognized for his efforts against UTM with a second Ray Guy Award Records RAY GUY AWARD WINNERS 2000: Kevin Stemke, Wisconsin 2001: Travis Dorsch, Purdue 2002: Mark Mariscal, Colorado History 2003: B.J. Sander, Ohio State 2004: Daniel Sepulveda, Baylor 2005: Ryan Plackemeier, Wake Forest 2006: Daniel Sepulveda, Baylor 2007: Durant Brooks, Georgia Tech 2008: Matt Fodge, Oklahoma State 2009: Drew Butler, Georgia 2010: Chas Henry, Florida 2011: Ryan Allen, Louisiana Tech 2012: Ryan Allen, Louisiana Tech 2013: Tom Hornsey, Memphis 122 GO TigersGO . COM The University of Memphis Lou Groza Award Former University of Memphis place-kicker Joe Allison enjoyed a record-setting career and a brilliant season in 1992, but he never dreamed that, in doing so, he would receive the Lou Groza Award, which is presented to the nation’s top college kicker. Allison, a native of Atlanta, Ga., led the nation in field goals per game, average field goals made per game, and kick-scoring for the final nine weeks of the 1992 season. His 23-of-25 field goals made were the Media most in the nation, according to the NCAA, and his 92.0 percent made rated best among all kickers for the year. “I did not know about the Lou Groza Award until we played Tulsa in late October,” said Allison. “After the game, Bob Winn (Assistant Athletic Director/ Communications) came up to me in the locker room and said that I was a candidate for the award. I didn’t Staff Coaching even know who Lou Groza was at the time. “As soon as we returned to campus, I looked up Mr. Groza’s statistics in the NFL record book, and I talked to Coach Armstrong (UM kicking coach) about his career with the Cleveland Browns.” Allison continued on his torrid streak of field goals made throughout the remainder of the ‘92 sea- son. Week after week, his name appeared at the top of the NCAA statistics for kickers and a campaign was started to let sports writers and voters throughout the country know about Allison’s feats. Players For his accomplishments, Allison was named first team All-America by The Football News, The Football Writers Association, the Associated Press, United Press International, College and Pro Football Week- ly and The Sporting News. He is Memphis’ first-ev- Joe Allison is the third-leading scorer in school history with 263 points. He holds the school record for field goals in a season er first team All-American on the Associated Press with 23 in 1992. squad and was named to more first team All-America squads in one year than any other Memphis football the hospital recovering from his surgery that Allison Allison held the Memphis record for 50-yard field Tiger in the school’s history. learned that he had won the Lou Groza Award. goals in a season with three in 1990 before Stephen 2013 Review Following the Thanksgiving holiday, Allison suf- “Mr. Winn called and told me that I had won the Gostkowski booted three in 2005. He has; howev- fered an attack of appendicitis and had an emer- award and it made me feel a whole lot better,” Allison er, hit more 50-plus yard field goals than any other gency appendectomy. The surgery kept Allison from stated. “I was determined that I was going to get well player in Tiger history with five. Allison ranks third traveling to Hollywood, Calif., to appear on the Bob and travel to Florida for the awards ceremony.” all-time in scoring with 262 points and in PATs made Hope Christmas Special, and it was while he was in Allison did indeed recover from his surgery and, with 109, and ranks second in field goals made with with the assistance of former head coach Chuck 51. He held the No. 1 spots until Gostkowski complet- Stobart and kicking coach Murray Armstrong, trav- ed his four-year career in 2005 and claimed the top eled to West Palm Beach, Fla., to receive the first na- spot in those categories. tional award ever won by a Memphis player. The December 10th program was emceed by Records ABC sportscaster Curt Gowdy, and Baylor University LOU GROZA AWARD WINNERS head coach Grant Teaff was the guest speaker. 1992: Joe Allison, Memphis In accepting the Lou Groza Award from “The 1993: Judd Davis, Florida Toe” himself, Allison credited his snapper and holder 1994: Steve McLaughlin, Arizona and the entire Tiger special teams unit. 1995: Michael Reeder, TCU “Out of the 57 snaps during the season,” Allison 1996: Marc Primanti, N.C. State said, “I was the only one who made a mistake. Chad 1997: Martin Gramatica, Kansas State (Williams) did not have a bad snap, Andy (McWil- 1998: Sebastian Janikowski, Florida State liams) did not have a bad hold, but I missed two field 1999: Sebastian Janikowski, Florida State goals. I couldn’t have done it without their help.” History 2000: Jonathan Ruffin, Cincinnati The cousin of the late NASCAR driver Davey Al- 2001: Seth Marler, Tulane lison, Joe booted 32-of-32 PATs in 1992 and finished 2002: Nate Kaeding, Iowa with a then-school-record 90 consecutive PATs made 2003: Jonathan Nichols, Ole Miss for his career. 2004: Mike Nugent, Ohio State He set the Memphis record for field goals made 2005: Alexis Serna, Oregon State in a single season when he kicked his 17th of the year 2006: Arthur Carmody, Louisville in the Tigers’ win over Tulsa in 1992, and ended the 2007: Thomas Weber, Arizona State year with 23.
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