David Walker (quarterback)
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| Born: |
December 24, 1955 Lake Charles, La. |
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| Career information | |
| Position(s) | QB |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg) |
| College | Texas A&M |
| Career history | |
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| 1973–74,1976–77 | Texas A&M |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| Awards | 1973 U.P.I. SWC Freshman of the Year |
| Honors | 1972 Louisiana Class 4A All-State Quarterback; Class 4A Outsatanding Offensive Player; 2013 Inductee into the Inaugural Sulphur High School Centennial Hall of Fame |
David Walker (born December 24, 1955) is a former left-handed American football quarterback who played for Texas A&M University in the mid-1970s. He was Louisiana's 1972 All-State Quarterback and the state's Outstanding Offensive Player while playing for Sulphur High School, where he was tagged with his nickname, "Moon." Walker led Texas A&M to a 37-14 Sun Bowl victory over Florida to cap off the 1976 season and had the Aggies ranked #5 in the country after a 33-17 win over #7 Texas Tech in 1977.
In 1973, at age 17, Walker became the youngest-ever college quarterback. In Walker's first start of his freshman season, Texas A&M defeated the TCU Horned Frogs, 35–16. The victory broke a four-game losing streak against the Frogs and was the first of 24 straight the Aggies have won in the series. The Aggies finished the season as the third-highest-scoring team in A&M history, and Walker was named the U.P.I. Southwest Conference Freshman of the Year.
Walker was the quarterback his sophomore season in 1974 and led A&M through an 8-3 campaign, A&M's first winning season since the victorious Cotton Bowl team of 1967. Their 21-14 win against the 5th ranked LSU Tigers, the Aggies' second in 15 tries at LSU's Tiger Stadium, moved the previously unranked squad to #9 in the country. In the game, the Aggies had three ball carriers break the century mark in rushing; Skip Walker with 130, Bubba Bean with 127, and fullback Bucky Sams who finished with 107 yards and scored the winning touchdown late in the 4th quarter. A final game loss at Texas kept them from the Cotton Bowl and the SWC championship, thus allowing Grant Teaff's Baylor team, a 20-0 victim of the Aggies earlier in the season, to claim the crown. The Aggies' Top 15 ranking marked the first time since 1957 the Aggies had been ranked at season's end and only the sixth since their 1939 National Championship.
Walker was replaced by Texas All-Stater David Shipman during the 1975 season and did not play. The Aggies rose to #2 and the country's top-ranked defense before ending the season with one-sided losses to Arkansas and Liberty Bowl opponent Southern California.
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