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FINAL RESULTS / STANDINGS 2005 STANFORD FOOTBALL Final Results The Final Report 9/10 at Navy (CSTV) W, 41-38 9/17 UC Davis L, 17-20 Overall: 5-6, Pac-10: 4-4 10/1 Oregon L, 20-44 10/8 at Washington State W, 24-21 Cardinal Finishes 2005 Season with 5-6 Overall Mark; 4-4 in Pac-10 10/15 at Arizona W, 20-16 Stanford chalked up an overall record of 5-6 in 2005 and placed tied for fourth 10/22 Arizona State W, 45-35 in the Pacific-10 Conference with a 4-4 mark … The Cardinal did improve upon 10/29 UCLA (FSN) *L, 27-30 its 4-7 records of the past two seasons, but still fell one victory shy of advancing to a bowl game … Stanford lost three games in the final minute, two by a field 11/5 at USC (TBS) L, 21-51 goal and one by a touchdown, while four of the Cardinal's victories had a win- 11/12 at OSU (FSN Bay Area) W, 20-17 ning margin of four points or less … Stanford's four conference wins were the 11/19 California (ABC) L, 3-27 most by the Cardinal since it went 6-2 in the Pac-10 in 2001. 11/26 Notre Dame (ABC) L, 31-38 *overtime Wusu, Rushing, Jenkins, Alston Earn All-Pac-10 Recognition Stanford had four players selected to the All-Pacific-10 Conference team in 2005 Pacific-10 Conference Standings … Earning First-Team honors was senior Timi Wusu as a special teams player Pac-10 Overall … Second-Team honors went to senior kickoff return specialist T.J. Rushing USC 8-0 12-1 and honorable mention recognition went to seniors Julian Jenkins and Jon Oregon 7-1 10-2 Alston. UCLA 6-2 10-2 California 4-4 8-4 Stanford Places Pac-10 Best 18 Players on All-Academic Team Arizona State 4-4 7-5 Once again, the Cardinal led the conference with 18 players named to the 2005 Stanford 4-4 5-6 Pacific-10 Conference All-Academic Team … Stanford has six players chosen to Oregon State 3-5 5-6 the First-Team, including Kevin Schimmelmann for the fourth straight season Arizona 2-6 3-8 and Babatunde Oshinowo for the third consecutive year, five were selected to Washington State 1-7 4-7 the Second-Team and seven earned honorable mention recognition … Players Washington 1-7 2-9 must have a minimum 3.0 grade point average to qualify for the team … Along with Schimmelmann and Oshinowo, First-Team honors went to snapper Brent 2006 Schedule Newhouse, OL Josiah Vinson, DL Chris Horn and DL Matt McClernan … Second-team honors went to WR Gerren Crochet, OL Tim Mattran, DL September 2 at Oregon Gustav Rydstedt, LB Mike Silva and LIB Timi Wusu … Honorable mention September 9 San Jose State selections included: FB Kris Bonifas, TE Patrick Danahy, FB Nick Frank, September 16 Navy TE Michael Horgan, RB Anthony Kimble, RB J.R. Lemon and PK Michael September 23 Washington State Sgroi. September 30 at UCLA October 7 at Notre Dame Trent Edwards Named Team MVP for 2005 October 14 Arizona Quarterback Trent Edwards was named the Irving S. Zeimer Memorial Award October 21 at Arizona State winner as the team's Most Valuable Player in 2005 … Edwards, who spear- November 4 USC headed the Cardinal offense in '05, was also named Offensive Team Captain and November 11 at Washington the team's Most Valuable Junior player … Senior Julian Jenkins also won three November 18 Oregon State team awards, including the Jack Huston Award as the player exemplifying ag- December 2 at California gressiveness, exceptional performance and unheralded efforts; the Jim Reynolds 2005 Stanford Cardinal Football FINAL STAT RANKINGS Award (along with Kevin Schimmelmann) as the senior player whose courage on the field and devotion are an inspiration to all; and the Frank Rehm Award Team Rankings winner as the Most Outstanding Lineman In The Big Game … Below is a com- Category Avg Pac-10/NCAA plete list of team award winners in 2005: Rush Off 92.27 10 / 110 Pass Off 223.91 8 / 56 • Trent Edwards (Irving S. Zeimer Memorial Award - Most Valuable Player) Scoring Off 24.45 8 / 71 • Jon Alston (Al Masters Award - Player displaying the highest degree of lead- Total Off 316.18 10 / 99 ership and respect of his teammates) Rush Def 156.0 7 / 70 • Julian Jenkins (Jack Huston Award - Player exemplifying aggressiveness, Pass Def 285.91 7 / 110 Scoring Def 30.64 6 / 89 exceptional performance and unheralded efforts) Total Def 441.91 7 / 105 • Julian Jenkins and Kevin Schimmelmann (Jim Reynolds Award - Senior Pass Eff. Def 140.56 6 / 99 player whose courage on the field and devotion are an inspiration to all) Pass Eff. Off 135.67 6 / 34 • Babatunde Oshinowo (The Vardell Award - Junior or senior player who best Kickoff Ret 22.10 4 / 29 epitomizes excellence in both academics and athletics) Punt Ret 6.59 9 / 91 • Trent Edwards (Gundelach Award - Most Outstanding Junior) Net Punting 36.57 2 / 21 • Nick Sanchez (Deswarte-Eller Award - Most Outstanding Sophomore) Turnover Marg. +.41 5 / 41 • Alex Fletcher (Menlo-Atherton Trophy Award - Most Outstanding Freshman) • Timi Wusu (Phil Moffat Award-Most Outstanding Def. Special Teams Player) Individual Rankings • T.J. Rushing (Phil Moffat Award-Most Outstanding Off. Special Teams Player) (NCAA Top 100) • Julian Jenkins (Frank Rehm Award - Most Outstanding Lineman In The Big Game) Trent Edwards, Pass Effic. (139.01) • Jon Alston (Frank Rehm Award - Most Outstanding Back In The Big Game) 5th Pac-10 / 28th NCAA • Ray Jones (Greg Piers Award - Most Outstanding Offensive Service Team Player) • Tom McAndrew (Greg Piers Award - Most Outstanding Def. Service Team Player) Trent Edwards, Total Offense (189.73) • Trent Edwards - Offensive Team Captain 7th Pac-10 / 76th NCAA • Kevin Schimmelmann - Defensive Team Captain • Timi Wusu - Special Teams Team Captain Mark Bradford, Rec. Yds/gm (60.90) 9th Pac-10 / 79th NCAA 17 Players Conclude Their Cardinal Careers in 2005 Justin McCullum Rec. Yds/gm (59.89) Stanford said goodbye to 17 seniors who concluded their Cardinal careers in 10th Pac-10 / 87th NCAA 2005, including 10 on defense, six on offense and one special teams player … The list includes: OLB Jon Alston, CB Calvin Armstrong, FB Kris Bonifas, Jay Ottovegio, Punting (40.64) DE Casey Carroll, OLB Michael Craven, WR Gerren Crochet, C Brian 4th Pac-10 / 53rd NCAA Head, DE Julian Jenkins, RB J.R. Lemon, QB/WR Kyle Matter, WR Justin McCullum, NT Babatunde Oshinowo, CB T.J. Rushing, ILB Kevin T.J. Rushing, Punt Returns (9.14) Schimmelmann, PK Michael Sgroi, CB Nick Silvas and OLB Timi Wusu. 7th Pac-10 / 48th NCAA Cardinal Returns 16 Starters in 2006, Including 10 on Offense T.J. Rushing, Kickoff Returns (26.68) Stanford will return 16 starters and one kicker in 2006, including 10 returning 3rd Pac-10 / 20th NCAA starters on offense … Only wide receiver Gerren Crochet will not be back for Michael Sgroi, Field Goals (1.36 fgpg) the Cardinal on offense in '06 … Stanford returns its entire offensive line (LT 3rd Pac-10 / 28th NCAA Allen Smith, LG Josiah Vinson, C Tim Mattran, RG Alex Fletcher, RT Jon Cochran/Jeff Edwards), TE Matt Traverso, QB Trent Edwards, RB An- Michael Sgroi, Scoring (7.0 ppg) thony Kimble, WR Mark Bradford and FB Nick Frank … In addition, WR 13th Pac-10 / 68th NCAA Evan Moore, who began the 2005 season in the starting lineup but suffered a season-ending injury in the opening game, will be back in 2006 … Returning Brandon Harrison, INT (0.27 ipg) starters on defense include DE Gustav Rydstedt, OLB Udeme Udofia, ILB 7th Pac-10 / tie 68th NCAA Mike Silva (as well as Michael Okwo, who was one of the team's starters at ILB before and injury limited his play over the final eight games of the year), SS Brandon Harrison, FS Trevor Hooper and CB Nick Sanchez … The Car- dinal will all return punter Jay Ottovegio. 2005 Stanford Cardinal Football 2005 Stanford Cardinal Football Edwards in the Cardinal Record Book THE RECORD BOOK Trent Edwards concluded his third season on The Farm with his name firmly placed in the Cardinal record book … Edwards, who has started 24 games and Career Total Offense played in 28 the past three seasons, has completed 393-of-709 (.554) for 4,402 1. Steve Strenstom, 1991-94 9,825 yards and 30 touchdowns … He is No. 8 all-time at Stanford in career passing 7. Jason Palumbis, 1988-91 4,701 8. Trent Edwards, 2003-05 4,564 yards, career pass attempts, career pass completions and career total offense (4,564 yards) … He is also No. 9 in career touchdown passes with 30 and No. Career Passing 10 in career pass completion percentage and season pass completion percentage 1. Steve Stenstrom, 1991-94 10,531 (.627 in 2005). 7. Jason Palumbis, 1988-91 4,954 8. Trent Edwards, 2003-05 4,402 Return Specialist Rushing in Cardinal Record Book Senior T.J. Rushing, a First-Team All-Pac-10 selection as a kickoff return Career Touchdown Passes specialist in 2004 and a Second-Team selection in 2005, concluded his career 1. John Elway, 1979-82 77 as one of the school's all-time greats … He wound up with 53 kickoff returns 8. Mike Boryla, 1970-73 31 9. Trent Edwards, 2003-05 30 for 1,421 yards, 26.8 average and three touchdowns … Rushing is No. 2 in the Cardinal record book in both kickoff return average and No.