University of Richmond Athletics
Dave Clawson Listed As A Finalist For The Eddie Robinson Award
11/21/2005 | Football
Nov. 21, 2005
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Richmond head coach Dave Clawson was among a list of 16 finalists for the 2005 Eddie Robinson Award, released Monday by The Sports Network. Clawson is in his second season at Richmond and has directed one of the biggest turnarounds in 2005 I-AA football, going from a 3-8 mark in 2004 to an 8-3 record and an at-large bid to the NCAA I-AA Playoffs in 2005.
Award ballots, which were sent to media and I-AA sports information directors selected for the voting process, will be due via fax by Wednesday, Nov. 23. The Eddie Robinson Award recipient will be honored at the 19th-annual I-AA College Football Awards, Dec. 15, in Chattanooga, Tenn. -- the eve of the NCAA I-AA National Championship game.
Under Clawson's direction, the Spiders have turned in a season which began by losing their first two and three of their first four, to ending the season on a seven-game win streak. No football coach in Richmond's 123-year history has engineered a five-win turnaround in his first two seasons on the job until Clawson did it in 2004-05.
Clawson, a native of Youngstown, N.Y., is a combined 40-40 in his seven-year head coaching career. He is no stranger to program turnarounds, after helping a Fordham squad go from 0-11 in his first season to 10-3 and a 1-1 mark in the I-AA Playoffs in his fourth season with the Rams.
Richmond, now ranked 12th in the country with a mark of 8-3, will face No. 2 Hampton (11-0) in the first round of the 2005 NCAA I-AA Championships, Saturday, Nov. 26 at Armstrong Stadium in Hampton, Va. Kickoff in a nationally televised game on ESPNU is set for 8 p.m.
