Dylan Bolduc, Michael Laverriere and Trey Wood are used to determining their football fates through muscle and mind.

On Sunday, the three high school seniors will be able to do little more than sit anxiously in dress clothes as they wait to find out who among them will be the 46th annual Fitzpatrick Trophy winner.

The award is given to the top senior football player in Maine. The banquet and awards ceremony begin at noon at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland.

The award will be presented by former University of Maine coach Jack Cosgrove, the first-year president of the Maine chapter of the National Football Foundation.

Bolduc became Portland High’s lead running back midway through the third game of the season because of an injury to Nick Archambault. Bolduc rushed for 1,464 yards and 19 touchdowns to lead Portland to the Class A North title. Defensively he led the team with 134 tackles and three sacks, including one in the state-final loss to Bonny Eagle. Bolduc also returned an interception for a touchdown.

If Bolduc wins, it will be the third time a school has had back-to-back Fitzpatrick Trophy winners. Joe Esposito won last year. Mike Rutherford and Shaun Hawkins of Portland won the award in 1982 and 1983, and Scott Woodward and Gerry Gelinas of Biddeford were consecutive winners in 1984 and 1985.

Laverriere, a four-year varsity starter at Thornton Academy, carried the offense last fall in his first season at quarterback. He already has been honored as the Maine Sunday Telegram’s Player of the Year and the Maine Gatorade Player of the Year. Laverriere rushed for 1,384 yards and 20 touchdowns, averaging 8.8 yards per carry, and completed 49 of 86 passes for 813 yards and seven touchdowns. As a safety, he was in on 63 tackles, five for a loss, with three interceptions.

The last Fitzpatrick Trophy winner from Thornton was Art Leveris in 1991. Bob Giroux (1986) is the other past Thornton winner.

Wood rushed for a staggering 2,014 yards and 27 touchdowns on 304 carries to lead Brewer to the Class B North championship game, where the Witches lost to eventual state champ Brunswick. He also scored eight 2-point conversions and made 83 tackles as a linebacker.

Brewer never has had a player win the Fitzpatrick Trophy.

The Fitzpatrick Trophy was a Class A-only award until 1996.

A committee selects the semifinalists. The three finalists are the top vote-getters in balloting of the state’s football coaches and members of the media.

This year’s other eight semifinalists, who will be recognized at Sunday’s banquet, were Keenan Collett, Orono; Joey Curit, Biddeford; Cam Day, Bonny Eagle; Riley Dempsey, Wells; Jesse Devereaux, Brunswick; Ben Ekedahl, Cape Elizabeth; Francis McSweeney, Skowhegan; and Makao Thompson, Mt. Blue.

The Fitzpatrick Trophy, named for former Portland High coach and educator James J. Fitzpatrick, began in 1971 and is supported through a trust established by the creator, Julius “Yudy” Elowitch. A 1931 graduate of Portland, Elowitch played for Fitzpatrick, and was co-captain of the football team and senior class president. Elowitch, who died in 2005, went on to form Maine Rubber International.