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Remembering Ohio State’s Heisman Trophy winners of the 1950s

Land-Grant Holy Land | May 20, 2021

Related Topics: Heisman Trophy, Ohio State Buckeyes football, Ohio State Buckeyes, Woody Hayes, Howard Cassady, College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS, Vic Janowicz, Archie Griffin

Throughout the 1950s, the Ohio State Buckeyes were a football powerhouse. It was the decade of the Snow Bowl of 1950, of the 1954 national championship, of Woody. Wayne Woodrow Hayes took the reins of the OSU football program as head coach for the 1951 season; he would hold the position until shortly after that fateful Gator Bowl in December 1978. And the 50s witnessed Ohio State players earning the university’s second and third Heisman Trophies.

Vic Janowicz 1950

Vic Janowicz in Football Uniform
Janowicz in Buckeye uniform

Janowicz is listed as a running back, and if you look at his rushing statistics for his junior, Heisman season, you have to ask “what?

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