 At the time, the Heisman trophy was rarely given to an underclassman.UCLA became the first school to have a top winner in both basketball and football in the same year with Beban winning the Heisman Trophy and Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) winning the U.S. Basketball Writers Association player of the year award in 1968.USC would go on to the 1968 Rose Bowl ranked #1 and defeat the #4 ranked Big Ten champion Indiana, 14–3.