UM’s Leake earns two Big Ten football weekly awards

After becoming the first Maryland player in eight years to get four touchdowns in a game — including one on a 97-yard kickoff return — sophomore running back Javon Leake was named Monday as the Big Ten’s Offensive and Special Teams Player of the Week. Leake rushed for 140 yards on five carries, including touchdown runs of 64, 43 and 27 yards. He accounted for 274 all-purpose yards. MORE COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Raymond Burke “Buddy” Wellborn, a member of the the 1958 Navy team that won the Cotton Bowl, died Oct. 23 in League City, Texas, of complications from an aortic aneurysm at age 82. Born in Bryan, Texas, Wellborn attended Rice for a year before entering the Naval Academy in 1955 in the Class of 1959. ... Towson dropped five spots to No. 15 in the STATS Football Championship Subdivision poll and the American Football Coaches Association poll. ... Johns Hopkins moved up to 18th in the AFCA poll and 17th in the D3football.com poll. Salisbury moved to No. 21 in the AFCA poll and No. 18 in the D3football.com poll. —