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...Heisman Trophy winner at West Point, Dawkins went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, won combat medals in Southeast Asia, earned a Master's at Princeton and is about to complete his doctoral thesis there (topic: resistance to change in large institutions). Long regarded as Chief of Staff material, Lieut. Colonel Dawkins, currently one of 18 White House Fellows, was in Viet Nam as an ARVN adviser in 1965-66 and again the next summer, when he collaborated on an Army "pacification" study. In the Pentagon in 1970, he helped refine the concept of an all-volunteer army. Last...
...rolls over rather than around tacklers. But his greatest attraction to the pros is his blocking prowess: "This man dominates a game whether he's carrying the ball or blocking for someone else." (18) JOHN CAPPELLETTI, Penn State, 6 ft. 1 in., 210 Ibs., who won the Heisman Trophy last week, is a hard-running tailback who appeals to the pro scouts. In two seasons, Cappelletti gained 2,639 yds. and led the team to 21 wins. He promises to be another Larry Csonka, the Miami Dolphins' bruising running back. Another top rusher this year...
John Cappelletti, star running back for the Nittany Lions of Penn State, was named winner of the 1973 Heisman Trophy. The 215-pound senior from Upper Darby, Pa., more than doubled the point total of runner-up John Hicks, an offensive tackle from Ohio State. Cappelletti ran for over 100 yards in eight games this season, surpassing his last year's record...
...well. The most celebrated college player since Red Grange, the two-time All-America from the University of Southern California is perhaps the foremost example of the superstar readjustment syndrome. Only now, at age 26, is Simpson fully realizing the promise of the college career that won him the Heisman Trophy...
Oldtime fans who saw him in action still insist that Clint Frank was the greatest football player who ever strapped on a helmet. Frank, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1937 as a Yale halfback, has since run up a lot of points in another field: advertising. His Chicago-based Clinton E. Frank, Inc. had 1972 billings of $87 million...