Word: heisman
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ROSE BOWL: Ohio State (11-0) vs. USC (10-0-1)--Earle Bruce's Buckeyes boast one of the nation's top offensive threats in quarterback Art Schlichter. Southern Cal boasts two of the others in quarterback Paul McDonald and Heisman trophy-winning halfback Charles White, plus a stingy defense led by bone-crunching linebacker Dennis Johnson. It'll be close, but in the West, Southern Cal is best. USC 27, Ohio State...
...HEISMAN TROPHY...
Charles White, the dynamic tailback from the University of Southern California, outpointed Oklahoma's Billy Sims to win the 1979 Heisman Trophy. Sims won the award last year...
Staubach did that often enough during the past season to rank near the top of pro quarterbacks in completions: 231 of 413 passes (55.9%) for 3,190 yds. and 25 touchdowns. The man whose legs won him the Heisman Trophy in 1963 now lives, as do all N.F.L. quarterbacks, by his arm. His hands, gnarled and disfigured, reflect his trade: the index finger on his throwing hand still shows the marks of off-season surgery, and the little finger on the same hand zigs at right angles from one fracture, then zags back again from a second break...
True to his gods, Woody won: more victories (238) than any active big-time coach except Alabama's Bear Bryant; undefeated national championships in 1954 and 1968; 13 Big Ten titles (six shared); college, coach of the year in 1957 and 1975. His players captured three Heisman Trophies, and 58 made the All-American lists. Hayes was fanatically loyal to his athletes, who usually were loyal in return, and he was genuinely respected in Ohio for his personal integrity and little-publicized acts of charity and kindness...