What 1948 Heisman Trophy winner and American football player played college football on the same team as quarterback Gilbert Johnson?
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Bill Johnson (center) William Levi Johnson, Sr. (September 14, 1926 – January 7, 2011), known as Bill "Tiger" Johnson, was a professional football player and coach. He was born in Tyler, Texas, where he was raised by his single mother and five older siblings. Among his siblings was older brother Gilbert Johnson, who played quarterback at Southern Methodist University with the iconic running back Doak Walker. Bill was a legendary football and baseball star for Tyler Junior College and Texas A&M University, and graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University. He played center for the San Francisco 49ers from 1948 to 1956.
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Doak Walker Ewell Doak Walker Jr. (January 1, 1927 – September 27, 1998) was an American football player. He played college football as a halfback at Southern Methodist University (SMU), where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1948. Walker then played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Lions for six seasons, from 1950 to 1955.
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Cal Jones Calvin Jack Jones (February 7, 1933 – December 9, 1956) was a college football player for the University of Iowa. Jones is one of only two Iowa football players (along with Nile Kinnick) to have his jersey number retired by the school. Jones became the first Hawkeye, and the first African-American, to win the Outland Trophy in 1955. He played one year with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Western Interprovincial Football Union. He died in a plane crash after playing in the East–West All-Star Game on the way to watch the 1957 Rose Bowl.
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College Football All-Southern Team The College Football All-Southern Team was an all-star team of college football players from the Southern United States. The honor was given annually to the best players at their respective positions. It is analogous to the All-America Team and was most often selected in newspapers. Notable pickers of All-Southern teams include John Heisman, Dan McGugin, Grantland Rice, W. A. Lambeth, Reynolds Tichenor, Nash Buckingham, Innis Brown, and Dick Jemison.
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Gene Johnson (quarterback) Gene Johnson (born August 30, 1969) is a former American football quarterback who played one season with the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League. He played college football at Louisiana Tech University and attended River Oaks High School in Monroe, Louisiana. He has also been a high school and college coach after his playing career.
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Jack Bighead John Bighead (April 23, 1930 – April 28, 1993) was an American football player. A Yuchi Indian, he starred in football at L.A. Poly High in the 1940s and played in the National Football League (NFL). He was a 1948 graduate of Pepperdine University after earning Little All-American honors in football and track.
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Larry Olsonoski Lawrence Rodney Olsonoski (Sept. 10, 1925 - Mar. 6, 1991) is a former guard in the National Football League. After a college career at Minnesota, he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1948 NFL Draft and played that season with the team. The next season, he would split between the Packers and the New York Bulldogs.
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1948 Arizona Wildcats football team The 1948 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association (BIAA) during the 1948 college football season. In their eighth and final season under head coach Miles W. Casteel, the Wildcats compiled a 6–5 record (3–2 against BIAA opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the BIAA, lost to <a href="">Drake
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Brad Johnson (American football) James Bradley "Brad" Johnson (born September 13, 1968) is a former American football quarterback. Johnson grew up in Black Mountain, North Carolina. At Florida State University, Johnson originally played college basketball before switching to football in his third year. The Minnesota Vikings drafted Johnson in the ninth round of the 1992 NFL Draft. He spent seven seasons with the Vikings and two seasons with the Washington Redskins before becoming the starting quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2001. He led the Buccaneers to the Super Bowl XXXVII title. He played for the Buccaneers for four seasons from 2001 to 2004, the Minnesota Vikings for two more seasons from 2005 to 2006, and the Dallas Cowboys where he played in 2007.
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Tex Oliver Gerald Allen "Tex" Oliver (November 21, 1899 – April 10, 1988) was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Arizona from 1933 to 1937 and at the University of Oregon from 1938 to 1941 and again from 1945 to 1946, compiling a career college football record of 55–39–7.
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Ernie Davis Ernest Davis (December 14, 1939 – May 18, 1963) was an American football player, a halfback who won the Heisman Trophy in 1961 and was its first African-American winner.
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Dick Kazmaier Richard William Kazmaier Jr. (November 23, 1930 – August 1, 2013) was an American football player for Princeton University from 1949 through 1951 and winner of the 1951 Heisman Trophy.
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Pat Sullivan (American football) Patrick Joseph Sullivan (born January 18, 1950) is a former American football player and coach. An All-American quarterback for the Auburn Tigers, he won the Heisman Trophy in 1971 and then played six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins. Sullivan was a head football coach at Samford University, a position he held from 2007 to 2014. He was previously the head football coach at Texas Christian University (TCU) from 1992 to 1997 and the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) from 1999 to 2006. Sullivan was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1991.
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1948 Duke Blue Devils football team The 1948 Duke Blue Devils football team represented the Duke Blue Devils of Duke University during the 1948 college football season.
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Bill Austin (American football) Bill Austin (born c. 1937) is a former American football player. He played as a back for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team from 1956 to 1958 and was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team player on the 1958 All-America Team. He finished sixth in the voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1958, and he rushed for 2,073 yards and scored 204 points during his college football career at Rutgers.
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Jack Mitchell (American football) Jack Churchill Mitchell (December 3, 1923 – July 5, 2009) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Municipal University of Wichita—now Wichita State University—from 1953 to 1954, at the University of Arkansas from 1955 to 1957, and the University of Kansas from 1958 to 1966. compiling a career college football record of 72–61–7. Mitchell played football at the University of Oklahoma as a quarterback from 1946 to 1948. He was named an All-American in 1948.
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Jack Johnson (defensive back) John Connell Johnson (December 11, 1933 – October 18, 2015) was an American football player who played with the Dallas Texans, Buffalo Bills and Chicago Cardinals. He played college football at the University of Miami.
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Curtis Johnson (cornerback) Curtis Wise Johnson (born June 22, 1948) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the fourth round of the 1970 NFL Draft. He played college football at Toledo and high school football for Waite.
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Wilton Davis Wilton Britton Davis (April 14, 1928 – October 19, 1997) was an American football player. He played college football for Hardin–Simmons University. He led the NCAA major colleges in rushing yardage with 1,173 rushing yards in 1947. In 1948, he ranked fifth in rushing yardage with 889 yards and an average of 6.59 yards per carry. With Davis as the leading ground-gainer and Warren B. Woodson as head coach, Hardin-Simmons compiled a 14-5-3 record from 1947 to 1948.
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Glenn Davis (halfback) Glenn Woodward Davis (December 26, 1924 – March 9, 2005) was a professional American football player for the Los Angeles Rams. He is best known for his college football career for the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1943 to 1946, where he was known as "Mr. Outside." He was named a consensus All-American three times, and in 1946 won the Heisman Trophy and was named "Sporting News" Player of the Year and Associated Press Athlete of the Year.
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Ducky Pond Raymond W. "Ducky" Pond (February 17, 1902 – August 25, 1982) was an American football and baseball player and football coach. He was the head football coach at Yale University from 1934 to 1940, and at Bates College in 1941 and from 1946 to 1951, compiling career college football record of 52–55–3. Pond's record at Yale was 30–25–2 record, including a 4–3 mark versus Harvard. He mentored two of the first three winners of the Heisman Trophy, Larry Kelley and Clint Frank. At Bates, Pond led the undefeated and untied 1946 Bobcats squad to the inaugural Glass Bowl.
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1948 Kansas State Wildcats football team The 1948 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1948 college football season. Ralph Graham served his first year as the team's head coach. The Wildcats played their home games in Memorial Stadium. The Wildcats finished the season with a 1–9 record with a 0–6 record in conference play. They finished in last place in the Big Seven Conference. The Wildcats scored 78 points and gave up 323 points.