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Gil Dobie
November 13th, 2020, 07:52 PM
Rip Paul!

Practice Practice Practice!
Bisonoline
November 13th, 2020, 08:18 PM
One of my all time fav players
FUBeAR
November 13th, 2020, 08:48 PM
Although I was a Packers fan growing up in NC (long story), my memories don’t register until the year after Horning retired. Met him once & drank a few cold ones with him in ATL in the 80’s (probably ’83 or ‘84). He was doing TV work with Harmon Wages & Alex Hawkins (60’s era Falcons) & FUBeAR was doing a little grunt work for CBS Sports, so our paths crossed...in a bar...of course. He was extremely nice to a punk-kid. Fun & boisterous, but not obnoxious or arrogant to anyone. I remember checking out his Heisman or Super Bowl ring...don’t remember which & knowing that it was really cool, but I didn’t have enough perspective to realize just how cool it was to be sharing a cold 5 or 6 with a LEGEND.

Rest in Power, Mr. Horning. Honored to have had a brush with your greatness!
bulldog10jw
November 13th, 2020, 09:01 PM
If I remember correctly, Notre Dame was 2-8 the year Hornung won the Heisman. I'm not sure if any other winner was on a losing team, but I can't think of one.
Gil Dobie
November 13th, 2020, 09:24 PM
If I remember correctly, Notre Dame was 2-8 the year Hornung won the Heisman. I'm not sure if any other winner was on a losing team, but I can't think of one.

Interesting that another key player on those Packers teams, came from a winless Alabama team, 0-10, Bart Starr.
caribbeanhen
November 14th, 2020, 06:27 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/sports/football/paul-hornung-dead.html

dementia is real but we keep playing football

Covid is often asymptomatic and FCS pretty much shut down
Laker
November 14th, 2020, 07:26 AM
If I remember correctly, Notre Dame was 2-8 the year Hornung won the Heisman. I'm not sure if any other winner was on a losing team, but I can't think of one.

Yes, he was the only one. Interesting list of who he beat that year.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/awards/heisman-1956.html
Gil Dobie
November 16th, 2020, 02:54 PM
Yes, he was the only one. Interesting list of who he beat that year.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/awards/heisman-1956.html

Kenny Ploen was a star in the CFL, with Winnipeg.
bulldog10jw
November 17th, 2020, 01:56 PM
Yes, he was the only one. Interesting list of who he beat that year.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/awards/heisman-1956.html

The power of the Notre Dame brand in those days. I remember Beano Cook saying the Notre Dame QB always had the inside track to the Heisman.