Glenn Davis Award

Not to be confused with Glenn Davis Army Award.

The Glenn Davis Award was given annually from 1987 to 2017 by the Los Angeles Times to the best high school football player in the Los Angeles area.

It is named after Glenn Davis, the 1946 Heisman Trophy winner who prepped at Bonita High School in La Verne and Cal Poly Pomona in Pomona. Davis led the Bonita Bearcats to a 39–6 win over Newport Harbor in the 1942 CIF Southern Section final by scoring five touchdowns. Davis later joined the Los Angeles Times as a director of special events, a position he held until his retirement in 1986.^[1]

1989 winner Kevin Copeland died of heart failure during a game on October 6, 1989, and won the Award posthumously.^[2]

Past winners

Season	Player	Position	High school	College	Reference
1987	Russell White	RB	Crespi Carmelite	California	[1]
1988	Derek Brown	RB	Servite	Nebraska	[3]
1989	Kevin Copeland	WR	Dorsey		[4]
1990	John Walsh	QB	Carson	BYU	[5]
1991	Billy Blanton	QB	Mater Dei	San Diego State	[6]
1992	Travis Kirschke	DT	Esperanza	UCLA	[7]
1993	Glenn Thompkins	QB	Eisenhower	UCLA	[8]
1994	Daylon McCutcheon	RB/DB	Bishop Amat Memorial	USC	[9]
1995	Chris Claiborne	LB/RB	John W. North	USC	[10]
1996	Antoine Harris	TE/DE	Loyola	USC	[11]
1997	DeShaun Foster	RB/DB	Tustin	UCLA	[12]
1998	Chris Lewis	QB	Long Beach Polytechnic	Stanford	[13]
1999	Matt Grootegoed	RB/LB	Mater Dei	USC	[14]
2000	Tyler Ebell	RB	Ventura	UCLA	[15]
2001	Hershel Dennis	RB	Long Beach Polytechnic	USC	[16]
2002	Whitney Lewis	WR	St. Bonaventure	USC	[17]
2003	Brigham Harwell	DL/FB	Los Altos	UCLA	[18]
2004	DeSean Jackson	WR	Long Beach Polytechnic	California	[19]
2005	Toby Gerhart	RB	Norco	Stanford	[20]
2006	Aaron Corp	QB	Lutheran	USC	[21]
2007	Matt Barkley	QB	Mater Dei	USC	[22]
2008	Taylor Martinez	QB	Centennial	Nebraska	[23]
2009	Cody Fajardo	QB	Servite	Nevada	[24]
2010	De'Anthony Thomas	RB/CB	Crenshaw	Oregon	[25]
2011	Su'a Cravens	RB/WR/LB	Vista Murrieta	USC	[26]
2012	Thomas Duarte	WR/LB	Mater Dei	UCLA	[27]
2013	Jaleel Wadood	S	St. John Bosco	UCLA	[28]
2014	Josh Rosen	QB	St. John Bosco	UCLA	[29]
2015	Mique Juarez	LB	North High	UCLA	[30]
2016	Wyatt Davis	OL	St. John Bosco	Ohio State	[31]
2017	J. T. Daniels	QB	Mater Dei	USC/Georgia/West Virginia/Rice	[32]