Every Arizona Football All-American in history: Safeties Chuck Cecil and Tony Bouie

Tony Bouie

Bouie was with Arizona Football from 1991-94 and was one of the key pieces in the Desert Swarm defense, but he tends to go underappreciated in favor of Tedy Bruschi and Rob Waldrop. As a redshirt freshman in 1991, he earned the starting free safety job three games into the campaign and never looked back. He notched a team-leading 86 tackles, 63 of which came solo, and an interception.

As a sophomore in 1992, Bouie played and started all 11 games on the season, notching a team-lead tying four interceptions which also ranked fourth in the Pac-10. He was also a part of Arizona Baseball, and was a part of the team that won its first of back-to-back conference titles this year.

In 1993, nobody on Arizona hauled in more than two interceptions except for Bouie, who again led the Wildcats with six — good for the conference lead and No. 6 in the nation. He was a key component in the 10-2 season that saw Arizona win the Pac-10 outright and smoke Miami 29-0 in the Fiesta Bowl en route to earning first-team All-Pac-10 honors for the first time in his career.

In the 1994 season, Bouie put together his All-American campaign where he notched 54 total tackles, broke up five passes, and intercepted one pass which he returned for a touchdown. He earned his second consecutive first-team All-Pac-12 nod, and he was inducted into the Arizona Hall of Fame in 2000. Bouie went on to play in the NFL for a few seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before taking up other avenues in life, but his time at Arizona is both criminally underrated and difficult to learn more about.

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