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Apr 24, 2022 · Over 25 years of experience in sports including coach, athletic director, game day operations, media relations, football operations, and scout. He is [...] Billy Cannon was an LSU legend and would spend 10 years in the NFL. His life after football was controversial but he remains a Louisiana icon.
May 20, 2018 · ESPN. Billy Cannon, the only player in the history of LSU's football program to win the Heisman Trophy, died Sunday at age 80.
May 20, 2018 · Published 4:03 PM PDT, May 20, 2018. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Billy Cannon, the gifted running back who won the Heisman Trophy for LSU in 1959 with a memorable Halloween night punt return touchdown against Mississippi, died Sunday. He was 80.
Aug 14, 2023 · Any LSU fan worth their stripes knows Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon wore No. 20, a number that was retired shortly after he finished playing for the Tigers in the 1960 Sugar Bowl.
May 21, 2018 · Remembering LSU legend Billy Cannon: Heisman winner, football hero, more “I am sad to hear that our franchise has lost one of its first stars today, with the passing of Billy Cannon,” Strunk said to TitansOnline.com. “I want to offer our condolences to his family. Billy’s legacy will be long remembered in our franchise’s history.”
Billy Cannon, a Baton Rouge native and 1959 LSU graduate, was the winner of the 1959 Heisman Trophy as a halfback, and he led the Tigers to the 1958 national championship. He was inducted into the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1975 and into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.
May 20, 2018 · One of the best players to ever put on an LSU football uniform has passed away as the school confirmed that legendary Tigers star and the 1959 Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon died on Sunday morning at the age of 80.
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