By Staff
NEW YORK – The Maxwell Football Club announced on the ESPN nationally televised College Awards Show on Thursday that Brady Quinn, University of Notre Dame quarterback, has been selected as the winner of the 70th Maxwell Award as 2006 College Player of the Year.
In a very close race, Quinn received 297 first place votes of the 779 votes cast, with 154 second place and 168 third place for 1,367 points on a 3-2-1 basis.
Second place went to Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith with 258 first place votes, 177 second and 117 third for 1,245 points.
Third place went to Rutgers running back Ray Rice who received 116 first place votes, 109 second and 89 third place votes for 655 points.
The remaining 108 votes were divided among 11 other nominees.
In the voting for the 12th Annual Bednarik Award, College Defensive Player of the Year, Penn State's Paul Posluszny, who was the winner last year, was first with 346 votes of the 759 cast.
His teammate, Dan Connor, was second with 133 votes and Michigan's Lamar Woodley was third with 115 votes. The remaining 165 votes were divided among 15 other nominees.
In the voting for the 18th Annual George Munger Award as College Coach of the Year, Rutgers Greg Schiano was first with an overwhelming 480 votes out of 768 cast.
Second place went to Ohio State coach Jim Tressell with 87 votes. Third place went to Notre Dame's Charlie Weis with 711votes.
The remaining 130 votes were divided among 14 other college coaches.
Voters for all the Maxwell College Awards are NCAA head college football coaches, members of the Maxwell Football Club and sportswriters and sportscasters from across the country.