Founded in 2005 by several members of Ft. Walton Beach’s All Sports Association, the Wuerffel Trophy is synonymous with servant leadership across college football. As a member of the National College Football Awards Association, the Wuerffel Trophy was the first major award honoring character and service to others.

In 2024, the Wuerffel Foundation partnered with Allstate and the AFCA to combine two prestigious college football community service awards — the Wuerffel Trophy and the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team — into one esteemed program. 

When it came to commemorating the Wuerffel Trophy, W. Stanley “Sandy” Proctor crafted the iconic bronze in a symbolic gesture associated with the namesake. Proctor has a national reputation as a professional sculptor of the highest caliber, with accomplishments in sculpting, painting and stone carving – with work displayed at museums of national and international recognition.  After more than 30 years as a professional artist, Sandy was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2006, in the distinguished company of Ernest Hemingway, Ray Charles, Tennessee Williams, and Zora Neale Hurston, among others.