Maxwell Award | |
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Awarded for | College football player of the year |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Maxwell Football Club |
First awarded | 1937 |
Currently held by | Lamar Jackson, Louisville |
Official website | The Maxwell Award |
The Maxwell Award is presented annually to the college football player judged by a panel of sportscasters, sportswriters, and National Collegiate Athletic Association head coaches and the membership of the Maxwell Football Club to be the best all-around in the United States. The award is named after Robert "Tiny" Maxwell, a Swarthmore College football player, coach and sportswriter. Johnny Lattner (1952, 1953) and Tim Tebow (2007, 2008) are the only players to have won the award twice. It is the college equivalent of the Bert Bell Award of the National Football League, also given out by the Maxwell Club.