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Position: | Quarterback | ||||||
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Born: | San Francisco, California, U.S. | August 5, 1946||||||
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 195 lb (88 kg) | ||||||
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High school: | Sequoia (Redwood City, California) | ||||||
College: | UCLA (1965–1967) | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1968 / round: 2 / pick: 30 | ||||||
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Gary Joseph Beban (born August 5, 1946) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for two seasons with the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, where he won both the Maxwell Award and the Heisman Trophy in 1967.[1] He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988.
It all began on an asphalt playground in San Francisco and it culminated Tuesday afternoon when UCLA's Gary Beban was voted winner of the 1967 Heisman Trophy, which is awarded annually by New York's Downtown Athletic Club to the nation's most outstanding college football player.