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Brought up on the self-confidence of hard-driving John Heisman who taught Tech football in 1904, the Yellow Jackets mellowed just a bit under domineering Bill Alexander, who ran the Tech squad from 1920 through 1944. But neither Heisman nor Old Alex was proper preparation for Bobby Dodd...
...Running well in front of all opposition, Ohio State's shifty Halfback Howard ("Hopalong") Cassady won the Heisman Memorial Trophy, awarded annually by Manhattan's Downtown Athletic Club to the "outstanding college football player in the United States...
...Individual football honors went to Notre Dame Halfback Johnny Lattner, who won both the Maxwell Memorial Award (second straight year) and the Heisman Trophy as the nation's No. 1 player. At week's end, playing the last game of his collegiate career, Lattner scored two touchdowns as Notre Dame beat Southern Methodist...
Last week, Doak Walker won the Heisman Trophy, awarded the "player-of-the year," following in the footprints of Johnny Lujack (1947), Glenn Davis (1946) and Doc Blanchard (1945). Said soft-spoken Doak, who does not seem as impressed with himself as everybody else is: "I sure appreciate...
...Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack, 22, quarterback extraordinary, won the Heisman Memorial Trophy, by a landslide, as the year's No. 1 collegiate football player. The coach-of-the-year, in a New York World-Telegram poll of 272 college coaches, was Michigan's smart Fritz Crisler...