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Show L after the conclusion of excellence their football careers. Many Heisman winners have gone on to superstar status in the pro game. Doak Walker, Alan Ameche, Roger Staubach and O.J. Simpson are some of die names that come to mind most readily. But even those winners branded by some critics as failures have been extremely successful in their business careers. John Huarte became the Fighting Irish starting quarterback only as a senior. He led Notre Dame to nine straight victories and won the trophy in 1964. Huarte endured eight frustrating years in the NFL, sitting on the sidelines for six different teams. Eight years after his retirement, however, he is now the president of a lucrative ceramic tile import business in the Southwest. Terry Baker, the 1962 Heisman winner, is perhaps the best example of a legendary player whose lack of success as a pro has permanently placed him in the "didn't make it" category. Yet, in fact, he went from pro ball to an eminent legal career. At Oregon State, he won more major football honors in a single season than any other player in collegiate history. Last year, the Baker, now a senior partner in a Portland, Ore., law firm, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. But his pro career with the Los Angeles Rams failed. At player, Oregon State, I was an ld Armys Pete Dawkins, 58 winner: He became a Rhodes scholar and general. says Baker today. But when you get to the pro game, things become more highly specialized. They want someone who excels at just one thing, and to me that was the difference." Steve Spurrier, w ho won the Heisman at the University of Florida in 1966 and who now coaches the USFL's Tampa Bay Bandits, sums the issue up neatly: The Heisman Trophy is awarded to the PMtAK MACA2MC NOVEMBa: 27, IM3 PAGE The award stands for all that is right in sports, yet the performance of its winners-o- and off n the field-h- as been criticized outstanding college football player in the country, and not to the guy most likely to succeed in pro ball. Coach Joe Patemo of Penn State replies forcefully to those who criticize the Heisman Memorial Trophy. 1 think the Heisman Trophy is a wonderful award and gives somebody a legitimate goal to try to be the best," says Patemo. 1 think this country was made great because of people willing to make the sacrifices, pay the price, discipline themselves both physically and mentally to be a little different from anybody else. 1 think our people need to identify with heroes. Does it stand for somebody that all of us can identify with that's standing above the crowd, w ho has paid the price to be great?" Perhaps the one w inner who can put the Heisman Trophy in perspective is Pete Dawkins, who won the award for Army in 1958. In his four years at West Point, Dawkins finished in the top 5 percent of his class and then won a Rhodes scholarship and went on to Oxford University. He recently retired at the age of 45 as a brigadier general in the United States Army. Dawkins would probably have been the blueprint for the perfect Heisman winner. Every one of us who has ever been selected to receive the Heisman Trophy knows deep in our heart that in a way we didn't deserve it, says Dawkins. College football is a sport with more to it than can be symbolized by one person. We all have the awareness that somehow the award is greater than any of us. 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