Derby High vs. Shelton High School

Silver Turkey Award Winners

2011 Winner Ray Kreiger

The annual Derby/Shelton Football game doesn't have a Most Valuable Player Award. Instead, it has a tradition all its own in the form of the "Silver Turkey Award" which has been presented every year since the defunct Suburban News first presented the award. The tradition is now carried on by The Valley Times.

The award has been given 43 times so far with Shelton players winning 25 times to Derby's 19. Only eight underclassmen have ever won the award, and Jeff Schultz is the only repeat winner having pulled off the feat in 2006 and 2007. Running backs have dominated the award having won the award 19 times. Quarterbacks are next with eight winners. Shelton players had won the award for seven straight years and ten of the last twelve, until Derby's Ray Kreiger broke the streak in 2011. The seven year streak is the longest by either team in the history of the award.

We want to thank Bill Pucci, editor of the Valley Times for providing the listing.

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