December 6, 2005
Release courtesy of Darren Miller, Cornell College sports information director

MOUNT VERNON , IOWA . . . Cornell senior Phil Bilderback (Port Orchard, Wash.) was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® second team in football as an offensive lineman.

Bilderback is the ninth Cornell athlete to land on an Academic All-America team since 1997. He is the school’s first since Anna Doherty was selected to the third team in track and field/cross country last season, and the first football player since Matt Weiss in 1998.

Bilderback, who has a 3.99 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale), was a member of an offensive line that helped the Rams pass for an average of 204.4 yards and rush for 109.7 yards per game. He is majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology.

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