Word: heisman
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...Football League's New York Jets, collects quarterbacks. He had three last season, and they cost him $48,000. Now he has six. He picked up Virginia Tech's Bob Schweickert for a song, but he had to shell out $200,000 for Notre Dame's Heisman Trophy winner, John Huarte. And to land Alabama's Joe Namath, he went all the way to $400,000-the highest price ever paid for a rookie in the history of pro football...
...college students of the 1950s, West Point's Peter Miller Dawkins headed the Who's Who of his era. He was, in drumfire order, first captain of the corps of cadets, president of his class of 1959, captain of the football team, Heisman Trophy winner and a "star man," ranking in the top 5% of his class academically. No other West Pointer has mustered all those honors, before or since. After Dawkins married Judith Wright in 1961, he studied philosophy, politics and economics as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, where he excelled at Britain's own game...
Both schools have strong football traditions and a famous grid alum from the late 1960s. For Cornell it was running back Ed Marinaro, second in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1971. For UMass it was Greg Landry (this week's guest predictor), who quarter backed the Baltimore Colts and the Detroit Lions in the NFL before moving to his current position with the USFL's Chicago Blitz...
SENTENCED. Billy Cannon, 46, former pro football star and a living legend in Louisiana, where he earned a 1959 Heisman Trophy as running back for L.S.U.; to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, the maximum penalty, after he pleaded guilty to involvement in a massive counterfeiting scheme; in Baton Rouge. A successful Baton Rouge orthodontist after he retired from football in 1970, Cannon appeared to be a model citizen until federal investigators in July traced a staggering $6 million in bogus $100 bills...
Hockey's answer to the Heisman Trophy and given annually to the finest college hockey player, the Hobey Baker was given to Fusco at the NCAA championship tournament in March, and proved a fitting ending to his college career. But he vows to continue in the game--he will decide between the Olympic trials and a pro career later this month...