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...doesn't, that'll be okay, too, Payton says. "Ultimately, I decided that if I lose because I'm doing something that I believe in, then so be it. There are worse things in life than that...
Sure, junior running back Clifton Dawson was a Payton Award candidate this past season, and likely will be again this year. And he is a transfer from a Division I-A program, Northwestern, that is from a BCS conference and was bowl-eligible last season, but that will hardly change my mind...
There was the closest race in Walter Payton Award history, and then there was Brown running back Nick Hartigan. The 2005 Payton Award, which is given to the best player in all of I-AA, went to Eastern Washington quarterback Erik Meyer. Meyer edged out New Hampshire sophomore quarterback Ricky Santos by five points to take home the award. Hartigan, the other member of the final three, came in 123 points behind Santos and just eight points ahead of Grambling quarterback Bruce Eugene, who finished fourth in the voting. The third-place finish was the best-ever...
With two weeks remaining in the season, the only real source of intrigue is whether Brown running back Nick Hartigan will be the first Ivy League player to take home the Payton Award, given to Division I-AA’s top player...
...yards and two touchdowns. About halfway through the third quarter, Dawson kept slamming downfield. After a couple passes moved him into range, Dawson scraped four yards out of an impossible line of scrimmage. On second-and-six from the Princeton 29-yard line, Dawson demonstrated what keeps him on Payton Award watchlists, blowing through a series of tackles, dragging a defensive back along, and shrugging off the last vestiges of the defense he had just shredded before rolling into the endzone to tie the game 17-17. “You hit him, and you think he?...