The Times-Picayune · May 20, 2018
Billy Cannon, LSU's only Heisman Trophy winner, dies at age 80
Dr. Billy Cannon, LSU's only Heisman Trophy winner regarded as the school's greatest ever football player, died in his sleep Sunday morning at the age of 80.
Playing on both sides of the ball as most players did in the 1950s, Cannon led the Tigers in his junior year to its first national championship in 1958 and he won the Heisman as a senior in 1959.
He delivered the most memorable moment in LSU football history and one of most unforgettable in college history in 1959 on a foggy Halloween night in Tiger Stadium.