Word: heisman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became the No. 1 draft choice of the National Football League (selecting team: Los Angeles), Halfback Billy Cannon, 22, Louisiana State's sprinting strongman (6 ft. 1 in., 207 lbs., 100 yds. in 9.4 sec.) completed his sweep of football's two highest honors by winning the Heisman Memorial Trophy as "the outstanding player...
John Crow was too modest. At week's end he was on every All-America team worthy of the name (see box), and in an overwhelming vote by sportswriters, he won the Heisman Trophy as outstanding college football player of 1957. Chicago's professional Cardinals, entitled to first-draft choice because they have the worst record in the league, brightened their 1958 prospects by choosing Crow to team up with Rice's Quarterback King Hill* in the rejuvenation of the Cardinals' backfield...
...YORK, Dec. 3--John Crow, power-running back of the Texas Aggies, today was named 1957 winner of the Heisman Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to college football's outstanding player...
Brought up on the self-confidence of hard-driving John Heisman who taught Tech football in 1904, the Yellow Jackets mellowed just a bit under domineering Bill Alexander, who ran the Tech squad from 1920 through 1944. But neither Heisman nor Old Alex was proper preparation for Bobby Dodd...
...Running well in front of all opposition, Ohio State's shifty Halfback Howard ("Hopalong") Cassady won the Heisman Memorial Trophy, awarded annually by Manhattan's Downtown Athletic Club to the "outstanding college football player in the United States...