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For Immediate Release: December 18, 2014 Contact: Al Carbone (203) 671-4421 Follow us on @WalterCampFF

TCU’s Named 2014 Coach of the Year

NEW HAVEN, CT – Gary Patterson, of the TCU Horned Frogs, has been named the Walter Camp 2014 Coach of the Year. The Walter Camp Coach of the Year is selected by the nation’s 125 Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors. Patterson, who also won the award in 2009, joins (Penn State: 1972, 1994 and 2005) and (Oklahoma: 2000 and 2003) as multiple winners of the Walter Camp Coach of the Year honor. Under Patterson’s direction, the Horned Frogs (11-1) captured their first Big 12 championship in just their third season in the conference. TCU was picked seventh in the preseason Big 12 poll after winning just four games in 2013. TCU (11-1) will meet Ole Miss (9- 3) on Dec. 31 in the Chick-fil-A in . Hired in 2000, Patterson is TCU’s all-time winningest coach with 131 victories. Under Patterson’s tutelage, TCU has now won six conference championships in three different leagues during his 14 seasons as head coach. Patterson has led TCU to the 11-win mark for the eighth time in the last 12 seasons. His .744 winning percentage (131-45) ranked fourth among active coaches nationally. He is one of just five active coaches with at least 100 victories at their current school. A native of Rozel, KS, Patterson graduated from Kansas State in 1981, and played safety for the Wildcats. He had served as an assistant coach at Kansas State, Tennessee Tech, UC Davis, Cal Lutheran, Pittsburg State, Sonoma State, Utah State, Navy and New Mexico before joining the TCU staff as its in 1998. Coach Patterson, along with members of the 2014 Walter Camp All-America team and Player of the Year Marcus Mariota (Oregon), will be honored at the organization’s national awards banquet, presented by First Niagara Bank, on Saturday, January 17, 2015 at the Commons in New Haven. In addition, the Foundation will recognize three individuals – broadcasting legend Verne Lundquist (Distinguished American), former Notre Dame and Steeler standout Jerome Bettis (Man of the Year) and former Air Force All-American and Dallas Cowboy Chad Hennings (Alumnus of the Year) – with major awards. The Foundation is offering a "Holiday Ticket Promotion" for the National Awards Dinner. Buy two tickets for $450 (you save $150) before December 31. Please call (203) 288- CAMP (288-2267) for more information. Walter Camp, “The Father of ,” first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was

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founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team. The Walter Camp Football Foundation is a member of the National Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game’s predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients.

Walter Camp Coaches of the Year

2014 – Gary Patterson, TCU 1990 – , Tech 2013 – , Duke 1989 – Bill McCartney, Colorado 2012 – Brian Kelly, Notre Dame 1988 – , West Virginia 2011 – , LSU 1987 – Dick MacPherson, Syracuse 2010 – , Oregon 1986 – Jimmy Johnson, Miami 2009 – Gary Patterson, TCU 1985 – Fisher DeBerry, Air Force 2008 – , Alabama 1984 – , South Carolina 2007 – , Kansas 1983 – Mike White, Illinois 2006 – , Rutgers 1982 – , Louisiana State 2005 – Joe Paterno, Penn State 1981 – , Pittsburgh 2004 – , Auburn 1980 – , Georgia 2003 – Bob Stoops, Oklahoma 1979 – , Wake Forest 2002 – , Iowa 1978 – , Missouri 2001 – , Maryland 1977 – , Arkansas 2000 – Bob Stoops, Oklahoma 1976 – Frank R. Burns, Rutgers 1999 – , 1975 – , Arizona State 1998 – Bill Synder, Kansas State 1974 – , Oklahoma 1997 – , Michigan 1973 – , Pittsburgh 1996 – , Arizona State 1972 – Joe Paterno, Penn State 1995 – , Northwestern 1971 – , Nebraska 1994 – Joe Paterno, Penn State 1970 – Bob Blackman, Dartmouth 1993 – , Auburn 1969 – , Michigan 1992 – , Alabama 1968 – , State 1991 – , Florida State 1967 – , Indiana

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