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This year stores in the Christian Booksellers Association had revenues of $600 million, thanks to pop devotionals and testimony books from Christianized Governors (Julian Carroll of Kentucky), athletes (Heisman Trophy Winner Archie Griffin, Tennis Star Stan Smith), businessmen (Walter Hoving of Tiffany) and entertainers (Pat Boone...
Leading the Longhorn attack is Fullback Earl Campbell, who plows through the line as if he were walking through a turnstile, gained 1,522 yards in the first ten games, and is a strong candidate to win the Heisman Trophy. To take advantage of Campbell's brute (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lb.) strength and the sizzling speed of Wide Receiver Johnny ("Lam") Jones-a 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 400-meter relay and, according to Akers, "the fastest football player in the world"-the new coach substituted a big-play, I-formation offense for the Royal Wishbone...
...adds with great pride that Jim Rosenfeld, a current member of the freshmen team, is the son of Norman Rosenfeld, who played halfback on the 1941 University of Michigan team alongside the great Tom Harmon, who won the Heisman Trophy that year...
...highlight of that game for me was the awarding of the Trainer of the Year awards for divisions II and III--a prize second only to the Heisman trophy in the world of college football...
...only career military man at the conference distinguished between leadership and command. "To oversimplify, a commander gets action by asserting his authority, his rank," said Army Colonel Peter Dawkins, 38, former Heisman Trophy winner as a West Point running back, Rhodes scholar and now commander of the infantry base at Fort Ord, Calif. "A leader is able to promote action by motivating people to do things...