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roywhite
12-16-2014, 01:32 PM
2014 AP All-America Team (http://collegefootball.ap.org/article/2014-ap-all-america-team-list)

Congratulations to Laken on a great honor and a great career.

Wrap it up with a win, big guy!

Devil in the Blue Dress
12-16-2014, 01:53 PM
A well deserved honor! Laken is such an exceptional person in all his endeavors.

jv001
12-16-2014, 02:51 PM
Congratulations Laken, you deserve the honor young man. GoDuke!

AIRFORCEDUKIE
12-16-2014, 03:39 PM
Forgive my ignorance, but whens the last time we had a 1st team AP All-America at Duke?

Also go back to the 2009 post about him committing to Duke. You will find it under Laken Tomlinson a BIG football recruit, only 3 responses? Then in 2011 after his redshirt year it picks back up again. Shows you how much we care about football now compared to then.

BigWayne
12-16-2014, 03:45 PM
Forgive my ignorance, but whens the last time we had a 1st team AP All-America at Duke?

Duke Media Guide (http://www.goduke.com/fls/4200/web-docs/2014_FB_MediaGuide/89-156_History.pdf?SPSID=22695&SPID=1843&DB_OEM_ID=4200) shows the last 1st team AP to be Clarkston Hines in 1989.

duke blue brewcrew
12-16-2014, 05:26 PM
Very happy for and proud of Laken. He strikes me as a great person who is highly intelligent, ambitious and a fierce competitor. According to a few quotes I've read from him,the NFL is simply a means for Laken to pay for his med-school, but I think he's easily drafted in the top 3 rounds. 1st Team All American O-Lineman don't just grow on trees after all. Highest drafted Blue Devil to date for Cutcliffe? of all time?

devildeac
12-16-2014, 06:26 PM
Very happy for and proud of Laken. He strikes me as a great person who is highly intelligent, ambitious and a fierce competitor. According to a few quotes I've read from him,the NFL is simply a means for Laken to pay for his med-school, but I think he's easily drafted in the top 3 rounds. 1st Team All American O-Lineman don't just grow on trees after all. Highest drafted Blue Devil to date for Cutcliffe? of all time?

With that honor, I wouldn't be surprised with a first or second round selection. What a fabulous tribute for a great young man.

Bob Green
12-16-2014, 06:29 PM
Highest drafted Blue Devil to date for Cutcliffe? of all time?

Mike Curtis was drafted in the 1st Round of the 1965 draft as the #14 overall pick so I do not expect Laken Tomlinson to become the highest drafted Blue Devil of all time. Mike McGee who won the 1959 Outland Trophy was selected in the 2nd Round.

There is no doubt Laken Tomlinson will be the highest drafted Blue Devil in the Coach Cutcliffe era.

weezie
12-16-2014, 07:19 PM
Wow, is this not the super coolest?! What an incredible achievement. So much hard work and dedication.

Blessings upon this fine young man.

OldPhiKap
12-16-2014, 07:20 PM
We are lucky to be represented by such fine men. Congratulations!

nyesq83
12-16-2014, 07:45 PM
Proud others are acknowledging the results of a hardworking, dedicated young man! Well deserved! Well done!

RepoMan
12-16-2014, 07:55 PM
Great news! Another sign of the new times. Congrats to Laken and the coaching staff.

Henderson
12-16-2014, 08:38 PM
Three-time All-ACC academically too.

duke blue brewcrew
12-16-2014, 10:51 PM
Mike Curtis was drafted in the 1st Round of the 1965 draft as the #14 overall pick so I do not expect Laken Tomlinson to become the highest drafted Blue Devil of all time. Mike McGee who won the 1959 Outland Trophy was selected in the 2nd Round.

There is no doubt Laken Tomlinson will be the highest drafted Blue Devil in the Coach Cutcliffe era.

Great info Bob. thanks for sharing and I agree with you. Hopefully Laken can give McGee a run for his money for the 2nd highest selection in history.

DU82
12-16-2014, 10:56 PM
Mike Curtis was drafted in the 1st Round of the 1965 draft as the #14 overall pick so I do not expect Laken Tomlinson to become the highest drafted Blue Devil of all time. Mike McGee who won the 1959 Outland Trophy was selected in the 2nd Round.

There is no doubt Laken Tomlinson will be the highest drafted Blue Devil in the Coach Cutcliffe era.

Mike Junkin, fifth overall in the 1987 draft. (Unless you were talking specifically about offensive linemen.)

sagegrouse
12-16-2014, 11:23 PM
First team A-A at least somewhere, since 1950:

Billy Cox (1950)
Blaine Earon (1951)
Ed Meadow (1952, 1953)
Bob Pascal (1955)
Roy Hord (1957)
Tom Topping (1957)
Mike McGee (1959)
Tee Moorman (1960)
Jean Berry (1962)
Jay Wilkinson (1963)
Mike Curtis (1964)
Bob Mathis (1965) #53 defense, Dolphins
Ernie Jackson (1971)
Keith Stoneback (1974)
Billy Bryan (1976)
Clarkston Hines (1988, 1989)
Chris Port (1989)

You're right. There were a lot more between 1950 and 1965 -- 13x in 16 seasons. But All-American honors beget A-A honors, and Duke was known as a nationally strong football program back then.

Interesting, although there were about ten first team A-A in the 1930s and 1940s, neither Eric Tipton nor NFL HOFer George McAfee were first team. Ace Parker certainly was.

Kindly, Sage
'Source: Duke Football Media Guide'

DukieInKansas
12-17-2014, 12:15 AM
Congratulations! Further proof that Duke is doing football the right way!

Olympic Fan
12-17-2014, 01:43 AM
First team A-A at least somewhere, since 1950:

Billy Cox (1950)
Blaine Earon (1951)
Ed Meadow (1952, 1953)
Bob Pascal (1955)
Roy Hord (1957)
Tom Topping (1957)
Mike McGee (1959)
Tee Moorman (1960)
Jean Berry (1962)
Jay Wilkinson (1963)
Mike Curtis (1964)
Bob Mathis (1965) #53 defense, Dolphins
Ernie Jackson (1971)
Keith Stoneback (1974)
Billy Bryan (1976)
Clarkston Hines (1988, 1989)
Chris Port (1989)


You left out:

Red Smith (first team Colliers) 1951
Wray Carlton (first team Gridiron Magazine) 1957
John Talley (first team the Sporting News) 2006
Will Snyderwine (first team Football Coaches) 2010

Plus two corrections -- it's Ed Meadows ... and the #53 for the Dolphins was Bob Matheson (not Mathis). Plus, Matheson was first team in 1966, not 1965.

There are varying levels of All-American honors. At the top are the players who win consensus first team honors. Duke has had a lot of players earn first team honors as the list above shows (and there were a lot more before 1950), but Duke has produced just four consensus All-Americans in its history:

-- Fred Crawford, T (1933)
-- Ace Parker RB (1936)
-- Ernie Jackson DB (1971)
-- Clarkston Hines WR (1989)

It's still too early to tell with Tomlinson, but first-team AP is a big achievement. The last Duke player to do that was Hines in '89. Before that, you go back to Matheson in '66. Before that, Blaine Earon in 1950. Let's get the whole list -- also Bill Milner in 1943 and 1946; Pat Preston in 1943; Ace Parker in 1936; and Fred Crawford in 1933.

That's it -- Laken is just the eighth Duke player to be AP first team.

Some of Duke's greatest players ended up AP second team, including George McAfee, Steve Lach, Tony Ruffa, Ernie Jackson (he made almost every other first team), Jay Wilkinson, Billy Bryan, Cedric Jones, Dan Hill, Art Gregory, Chris Castor, Mike Junkin, Chris Port, and Brian Morton (as a punter). Surprised to see that neither Eric Tipton or Mike McGee or Mike Curtis made any AP team.

sagegrouse
12-17-2014, 07:25 AM
You left out:

Red Smith (first team Colliers) 1951
Wray Carlton (first team Gridiron Magazine) 1957
John Talley (first team the Sporting News) 2006
Will Snyderwine (first team Football Coaches) 2010

Plus two corrections -- it's Ed Meadows ... and the #53 for the Dolphins was Bob Matheson (not Mathis). Plus, Matheson was first team in 1966, not 1965.

There are varying levels of All-American honors. At the top are the players who win consensus first team honors. Duke has had a lot of players earn first team honors as the list above shows (and there were a lot more before 1950), but Duke has produced just four consensus All-Americans in its history:

-- Fred Crawford, T (1933)
-- Ace Parker RB (1936)
-- Ernie Jackson DB (1971)
-- Clarkston Hines WR (1989)

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Thanks and do I hate that agate type! Actually, I knew Matheson a bit (apparently not well enough to spell his complete name!). He was a good guy, who passed away far too soon, just short of age 50. And he was more nearly first-team consensus than Ernie Jackson, who was 2nd team AP and 1st team Kodak, Football Wk., and Gridiron Mag. Matheson was 1st team AP, Sporting News, and Time Mag. The crackerjack Miami Dolphins of the 1970s ran the "53 defense," named after Bob's LB number, and he was a member of the undefeated Dolphins of 1972.

Wray Carlton (no wonder Carlos Wray sounds so familiar!) played for the Buffalo Bills in the AFL for eight seasons, but his 1st team A-A honors are not listed in the agate type of the Duke Media Guide. Nor is John Talley's. I apparently overlooked Red Smith and Snyderwine in the tiny type.

jv001
12-17-2014, 12:07 PM
Thanks and do I hate that agate type! Actually, I knew Matheson a bit (apparently not well enough to spell his complete name!). He was a good guy, who passed away far too soon, just short of age 50. And he was more nearly first-team consensus than Ernie Jackson, who was 2nd team AP and 1st team Kodak, Football Wk., and Gridiron Mag. Matheson was 1st team AP, Sporting News, and Time Mag. The crackerjack Miami Dolphins of the 1970s ran the "53 defense," named after Bob's LB number, and he was a member of the undefeated Dolphins of 1972.

Wray Carlton (no wonder Carlos Wray sounds so familiar!) played for the Buffalo Bills in the AFL for eight seasons, but his 1st team A-A honors are not listed in the agate type of the Duke Media Guide. Nor is John Talley's. I apparently overlooked Red Smith and Snyderwine in the tiny type.

Wray Carlton was my first Duke sports hero. Football was my first sports love and naturally I followed Duke football back in the day. The two halfbacks for Duke were Wray Carlton and George Dutrow and If I'm not mistaken, Wray scored the first ever TD for the Buffalo Bills. As for his Duke career, he happened to play under Bill Murray who was famous for his "3 yards and a cloud of dust" offense. In Carlton's freshman year(1956), the QB was Sonny Jurgenson. I think Sonny threw 59 passes out of the 105 team passes that year. GoDuke!