NEW HAVEN, CT. – Southeast Missouri senior offensive tackle
Drew Forbes and junior inside linebacker
Zach Hall were named to the 2018 Walter Camp Football Foundation FCS All-America Team Friday.
Forbes and Hall each picked up their second All-America honors this postseason. Both also landed on the Associated Press FCS All-America Team earlier this week.
This year marks the first time in SEMO football history where two players have made the Walter Camp Football Foundation All-America Team in the same season. The other two Redhawk players to earn this status were punter David Simonhoff (2006) and running back Henry Harris (2010).
The team was selected by the head coaches and sports information directors of the Football Championship Subdivision schools and certified by the accounting and auditing firm, Marcum LLP.
In all, players from 10 different conferences and 23 institutions are represented on the 2018 Walter Camp FCS All-America team. The Colonial Athletic Association and Big Sky Conference each have the most honorees with four, while the Missouri Valley Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Southern Conference and Pioneer League all had three honorees.
FCS semifinalist North Dakota State, SEMO, Samford and Towson all had two honorees.
Walter Camp, "The Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team. Visit
www.waltercamp.org for more information.