Clinton Orr top MIAA player for sixth time

Published 11:37 pm Monday, September 12, 2011

ALBION — Junior running back Clinton Orr of Albion College was named one of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s Football Players of the Week for the sixth time in his career.

The Buchanan product was named the special teams player of the week after returning a kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown in the Britons’ 54-34 setback to eighth-ranked Wheaton (Ill.) College.

Orr finished the game with 234 all-purpose yards, returning six kickoffs for 170 yards and rushing for another 64 yards. He also scored on a 1-yard run late in the third quarter.

“Clinton got hit at our own 30, but he bounced off the tackle and beat everybody down the sideline,” Albion Coach Craig Rundle said of the kickoff return. “It went from being a 10-yard return to 93.”

Orr has rolled up 331 all-purpose yards — 184 on kickoff returns and 149 rushing — in Albion’s first two games this season.

Albion is preparing for its Sept. 24 Homecoming game against the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

The new artificial turf that was installed this summer will be dedicated Schmidt-Fraser Field in honor of former Albion coaches Pete Schmidt and Morley Fraser prior to the 1 p.m. kickoff.