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Though each will receive votes for the Heisman Trophy, the award proclaiming college football's best player, Gill and Fryar consider Rozier's election this weekend a foregone and happy conclusion. When asked to describe Rozier, the runner, Fryar simply says, "Heisman." But Rozier personally expresses little interest in hardware. "All it is," he says, not wishing to be rude, "is a little statue of a runner. I guess if I win it, I'll give the hands to Irving and the head to Turner." The legs...
...Rozier is a brute with guile, whose balance is such that he seems to be bulldogged off the field more often than he is tumbled off his feet. Rozier's 29 touchdowns this season are an N.C.A.A. record. Among the last dozen Heisman-winning running backs, only Billy Sims of Oklahoma (1978) carried so seldom (an average 23 times a game compared with 30 last season for Georgia's Herschel Walker). Still, Rozier leads the nation's rushers with 2,148 yds., 7.8 per carry. In Rozier's third straight 200-yd. game this year, against...
Johnny Rodgers, the Heisman Trophy-winning flanker of that time, considers this team better. "They're faster than we were," he says. "The Big Eight was the toughest conference in the world in 1971 [Oklahoma and Colorado finished second and third in the Associated Press poll], but some teams are too good to be measured just by opponents. I think our team was, and this team is. We probably had a better defense, with guys like Larry Jacobson, Rich Glover and Willie Harper. Heck, John Button [three-time All-Pro Defensive Tackle for the Dallas Cowboys] played behind Jacobson...
...finest individual performances ever by a college football player was in a traditional rivalry in 1940. Michigan's Tom Harmon, who won the Heisman Trophy that year, led the Wolverines to a 40-0 win over Ohio State. In the game he rushed for 138 yards, passed for 151, had a 75-yard punt return for one of his three touchdowns, returned two kickoffs, had two interceptions totalling 60 yds., kicked four PATs and had three punts averaging...
...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...