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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1372595, member: 27"] Hornung was an awful choice that year. Notre Dame had a terrible team that went 2-8. Hornung completed 59 of 111 passes for 917 yards and 3 TDs, and ran for 420 yards on 94 carries (4.5 ypc). He scored 7 TDs. Mediorce stats for an awful team. Wake up the echos! Jim Brown ran for 986 yards on 158 carries (6.2 ypc) and scored 13 TDs. He led Syracuse to the Cotton Bowl as the best team in the East. They finished 7-2 that season. It was bad enough the greatest football player of all time was not selected. But selecting Hornung was really insulting. They could have at least picked Majors, who was a genuinely great college football player. Only the selection of Tim Brown over Don McPherson in 1987 was close to as criminal was the selection of Hornung in 1956. Notre Dame is not my favorite school. Can you tell? [/QUOTE]