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Pat Sullivan gave the state a new kind of football hero
By Mark Inabinett, al.com
Pat Sullivan was the first player from Alabama to win the Heisman Trophy, and he did it excelling at a style of football that had seldom been seen at Auburn or anywhere else in the state.
The 69-year-old Sullivan died Sunday.
Sullivan won college football’s most prestigious award for the 1971 season -- before Bo Jackson in 1985 and Cam Newton in 2010 joined him as Heisman Trophy winners from Auburn, before Mark Ingram in 2009 and Derrick Henry in 2015 won the Heisman at Alabama and before former Hueytown High School star Jameis Winston won the stiff-arm statue as Florida State’s quarterback in 2013.
Read more at https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nc...-state-a-new-kind-of-football-hero/ar-BBXCd43
