JESSIE HENDERSON NAMED MID-SEASON ALL-AMERICA

by **PonyPride** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:06 pm

Henderson Tabbed A Mid-Season All-American
CollegeFootballNews.com/FoxSports.com Honors Kick Returner
Oct. 25, 2006

DALLAS (SMU) - SMU sophomore kick returner Jessie Henderson has been
named a Mid-Season All-American by CollegeFootballNews.com/FoxSports.com, the outlet recently announced.

Henderson, a second-team honoree, was tabbed an honorable mention
preseason All-American by Street & Smith's and a preseason All-Conference selection in numerous magazines. Henderson leads the NCAA in kick return average in 2006 at 36.9 ypr and ranked first in C-USA in returns a year ago. He now ranks sixth on SMU's all-time list with 1,032 career return yards, and his career average of 30.4 ypr is currently better than SMU's all-time leader, Doak Walker (29.1).

The Paris, Texas, native has played a big part in SMU's success this season. In SMU's win at Tulane, SMU had surrendered the lead to Tulane,
21-20, with 7:52 left in the fourth quarter. The emotionally-charged Green Wave and the raucous Superdome crowd had little time to enjoy the lead, however, because Henderson returned the ensuing kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown to give SMU a 26-21 lead and take the wind out of Tulane's sails. The effort earned him C-USA Player of the Week honors. The 100-yard kickoff return for a TD tied five other players for the longest in SMU history and was Henderson's second career KOR TD. He is one of only four SMU players ever to return two kicks for TDs (Jerry LeVias, Jonas Rutledge, Arthur Whittington) and has two-plus seasons to try and become the first Mustang to post three.

Henderson and the SMU football team return to the field Halloween night, Oct. 31, in a nationally-televised 6:30 p.m. match-up with UAB in Gerald J. Ford Stadium.

by **Big10Ponyfan** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:07 pm

And the good news is that we get to see him again Tuesday against UAB!

by **ThadFilms** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:59 pm

Great news. He deserves it. We missed him and DeMyron on Saturday.

by **smu diamond m** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:59 pm

Big10Ponyfan wrote:And the good news is that we get to see him again Tuesday against UAB!

He said the other day he was ready to tear the turf up on Tuesday. Congrats to J Henderson, and good luck to him the rest of the year!

by **ccballer** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:22 pm

congrats little fella!!

by **The PonyGrad** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:36 pm

When sharing stories from other publications, please DO NOT copy and paste the story into a post here. To be fair to the publications that do the research and write the stories, people need to go to their sites in order to read the stories, as those sites make their revenue based on the number of people who visit their sites.

From here on out, please post the LINK to the story, not the story itself. If you want to quote a line or a paragraph from a story and use that as a basis for discussion. But just as we do not want other sites copying and pasting our stories, we should show the same courtesy to other writers and their employers.

Thank you.

Since you posted the above quote and the story on this thread, I wondered if the rules have changed or if this is a special case for some reason. This is a serious question since I just saw the rule and had planned to follow it, but now...

by **PonyPride** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:40 pm

Very fair question. The difference is that this is a press release distributed by the university, for the purpose of printing any and all information. In the case of a DMN story, for example, the paper wants as many people as possible to read the story, but only by going to their site, so as to increase ad revenue and the traffic numbers on their site.

by **SMU_is_bowling** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:44 pm

ahhh, now it is brought into the light . . .thanks!

by **ThadFilms** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:13 pm

yeah... you'll notice that when PPride stickifies something like this it's always a press release.

by **J.T.supporta** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:40 pm

Congrats lil Jesse on your midseason honor...keep up the good work and return one for us next week.

by **Col. Nathan R. Jessep** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:53 pm

I would walk any post to watch Jessie run.

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by **ClassOf81** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:32 am

J.T.supporta wrote:Congrats lil Jesse on your midseason honor...keep up the good work and return one for us next week.

Why stop at one?

by **mrydel** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:38 am

ClassOf81 wrote:
J.T.supporta wrote:Congrats lil Jesse on your midseason honor...keep up the good work and return one for us next week.
Why stop at one?

The first goal is to always limit the opposition to 1 kickoff per game.

by **Ponymon** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:39 pm

Any word on whether or not Jessie will play in the last two games?

JESSIE HENDERSON NAMED MID-SEASON ALL-AMERICA

JESSIE HENDERSON NAMED MID-SEASON ALL-AMERICA

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