Billy Beers quarterbacked 8-2 GT into a three way tie with Tennessee and Tulane for the SEC Championship in 1939.Impossible (for me) to compare across the different eras of college football.
But....if you are 2nd in Heisman voting, you break out.
Lothridge
Hamilton
If you win National Championship, you break out.
*Al Hill (1917)
*Bob Durant (1928) - Did not start every game at QB.
*Bill Brigman (1952) - Backup to Pepper Rodgers in '53 & '54
*Shawn Jones (1990)
I needed a heavy helping of Wikipedia to get all that.
I challenge any of you to "prove" Nesbitt or Dewberry or T.Washington was a better QB than my man (a national champ), Bob Durant. [tongue firmly in cheek]
Yes, finally somebody steps up for one of the best ever, and the closest to a Heisman, in an era when defense ruled and personal stats were not nearly as impressive as today. An excellent passer, excellent runner, fine punter who led the NFL a couple of years and if I remember right, was Tech's leading punter for a long period, and a wonderful on-field, fiery competitive leader. Oh, and he played defense. Bobby Dodd loved the guy.
Billy Beer was nasty.
We ran the single wing in HS and most definitely had a QB. He lined up between the guard and tackle. He called the cadence, the play, and on passing downs lined up at TB.
I think they called it blocking back or such. But the three single wing names i remember reading about were Bobby Dodd, who played tailback but was called QB as Oldgold says, Johnny Majors from Tennessee, a terrific back, and a fellow named **** Kasmier from Princeton of all places. All three played what today would be called tailback, and all three ran, pass and kickedd, and I think but I'm not sure, all three were All-Americans. And does Oldgold remember the Tennessee buck lateral? A wonderful play but if the line did not get their blocks the QB got smashed with his back turned. (Snap to fullback, fake dive handing off to the QB who has to face him and who then makes a long, hard laterakl toss to the tailback sweeping one of the ends. Get a fast tailbsck and there were fireworks.
Johnny Majors at Tennessee in 1956 was the leading passer in a Single Wing offense and he was left halfback.
Totally unfair too. Johnny Majors fathered the 6 million dollar man. #talkaboutperformanceenhanced
LOL
Yup. Lotheridge also kicked off and kicked field goals and PATs. I think his biggest win was 7 - 6 over then #1 Alabama (Bryant/Namath) in 1962, ending their 24-game winning streak.
Lothridge, last of the triple threats? He had to play some D also, days of limited substitution.
He was also an original Atlanta Falcon and i believe an All Pro punter.
He played safety with Dallas.
I had forgotten that. And does anyone remember that in the days of Bear Bryant, Broadway Joe was an option QB? The guy Vince Lombardi once described as a "perfect passer", ran the option in college. I think Billy Martin and Ted Davis at DE at him up in the '62 game. Among the things that attracted Dodd to him was of all things his ability with a cue stick. Dodd played what was known as a "mean stick" and swore Lothridge was better. That urge to compete shows up everywhere.
Billy did play some db at GT . In my opinion billy was the greatest football player ever at GT and should have won the heisman trophy over staubach!