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...Roger Staubach, 21: the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the best college football player in the U.S. Everybody's All-America, Navy Quarterback Staubach made a runaway of the voting by sportswriters and broadcasters (polling 517 first-place votes to 65 for Runner-up Billy Lothridge of Georgia Tech), became the fourth junior ever to win the trophy and the first since Ohio State's Vic Janowicz...
...Splendid article [Oct. 18] on the college quarterback, featuring Navy Ace Roger Staubach, the leading contender for the Heisman Trophy at this stage of the campaign with Georgia Tech's Billy Lothridge in close pursuit. As a longtime sports editor in the Deep South before coming East two seasons ago, and as a member of this year's Lambert Trophy committee, I find it a pleasure to see that college football is just as competitive in this area as it was in the South...
...three seasons, Ernie Davis gained 2,386 yds. (averaging 6.6 yds. per carry) and scored 220 points-breaking alltime Syracuse records that had been set by the Cleveland Browns' great Jimmy Brown. He was the first Negro ever to win the Heisman Trophy as the best college football player in the U.S. President Kennedy personally congratulated him ("Imagine," said Ernie, "a President wanting to shake hands with me!"), and pro teams battled bitterly to outbid each other for his services. The Cleveland Browns won, and Davis signed a threeyear, $80,000 contract. "I love to play football," said Ernie...
...balloting for the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually by the Sportswriter's Association to "the outstanding college football player in the United States," Peabody received 153 points. This was greater than any lineman had received previously and enough to rank him sixth in the poll...
Hustling into Manhattan to accept the Heisman Trophy, Ernie Davis, 22, the first Negro ever to be chosen as football's ''outstanding college player," got his hand shaken by President Kennedy, was gang-tackled by emissaries of a Canadian pro team and both U.S. professional leagues, each of which has made him its top draft choice. By opting for the National Football League, the thumping Syracuse University halfback could probably share with Michigan State's Ron Hatcher the distinction of being the first of their race to play for the Washington Redskins. But for Ernie this...