SU Thanksgiving Trivia

[All4SU]

Seven times an SU player has finished in the Top 5 Heisman voting. Can you name all of those players? Bonus if you get the years right. (No Googling allowed.)

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Jim Brown 1956
Ernie Davis 1961
Floyd Little 1966
Don McPherson 1987
Donovan McNabb 1998

Art Monk maybe?

I know it probably wasn't Nunes.

 

[721Comstock]

Jim Brown 1956
Ernie Davis 1961
Floyd Little 1966
Don McPherson 1987
Donovan McNabb 1998

Art Monk maybe?

I know it probably wasn't Nunes.

You left out Dwight Freeney.
oh, and maybe Marvin Harrison?

And, Riley Dixon, of course.

 

[Briancuse]

Jim Brown 1956
Ernie Davis 1961
Floyd Little 1966
Don McPherson 1987
Donovan McNabb 1998

Art Monk maybe?

I know it probably wasn't Nunes.

Did Floyd have two top 5 finishes?

 

[Chip]

Did Floyd have two top 5 finishes?

Has to be someone that did it more than once.

 

[sufandu]

Did Qadry Ismail ever finish top 5?

 

[sufandu]

I couldn't help it, I had to look it up. Pretty interesting. There was one player I wondered about but ultimately didn't think finished as high as he did.

 

[Chip]

I couldn't help it, I had to look it up. Pretty interesting. There was one player I wondered about but ultimately didn't think finished as high as he did.

Ha. Same here.

 

[All4SU]

Heisman Trophy voting (Source: Wikipedia)

NamePos.YearPlace

Dwight Freeney	DE	2001	9th
Donovan McNabb	QB	1998	5th
Don McPherson	QB	1987	2nd
Larry Csonka	FB	1967	4th
Floyd Little	RB	1966	5th
Floyd Little	RB	1965	5th
Ernie Davis	RB	1961	1st
Jim Brown	HB	1956	5th

Floyd Little with TWO top five finishes! And three straight years with a top five player. Pretty amazing.

 

[Chip]

Heisman Trophy voting (Source: Wikipedia)

NamePos.YearPlace

Dwight Freeney	DE	2001	9th
Donovan McNabb	QB	1998	5th
Don McPherson	QB	1987	2nd
Larry Csonka	FB	1967	4th
Floyd Little	RB	1966	5th
Floyd Little	RB	1965	5th
Ernie Davis	RB	1961	1st
Jim Brown	HB	1956	5th

Floyd Little with TWO top five finishes! And three straight years with a top five player. Pretty amazing.

I would have never guessed 3 straight years.

Freeney should have been higher. His impact on a 10-3 team (that started 0-2) was worthy of better. Being held several times in the Miami game, against perhaps the greatest team of all time, sunk him.

 

[MSOrange]

I would have never guessed 3 straight years.

Freeney should have been higher. His impact on a 10-3 team (that started 0-2) was worthy of better. Being held several times in the Miami game, against perhaps the greatest team of all time, sunk him.

Agree. Freeney was one of my guesses and it SHOULD have been right if voted correctly.

 

[cuse309]

Did Qadry Ismail ever finish top 5?

doubtful

 

[IthacaMatt]

Seven times an SU player has finished in the Top 5 Heisman voting. Can you name all of those players? Bonus if you get the years right. (No Googling allowed.)

Jim Brown
Ernie Davis
Floyd Little
Larry Csonka
Don MacPherson
Marvin Graves
Donovan McNabb

 

[All4SU]

Jim Brown
Ernie Davis
Floyd Little
Larry Csonka
Don MacPherson
Marvin Graves
Donovan McNabb

All but Graves!

 

[IthacaMatt]

All but Graves!

Didn't look. Little twice made it a trick question!

 

[OrangePA]

I would have never guessed 3 straight years.

Freeney should have been higher. His impact on a 10-3 team (that started 0-2) was worthy of better. Being held several times in the Miami game, against perhaps the greatest team of all time, sunk him.

What an amazing season he had.

Was just talking to a friend from AZ about the Insight Bowl that year.

We had a lot of fun on that trip - who recalls David Tyree with the crucial blocked punt?

 

[sufandu]

I would have never guessed 3 straight years.

Freeney should have been higher. His impact on a 10-3 team (that started 0-2) was worthy of better. Being held several times in the Miami game, against perhaps the greatest team of all time, sunk him.

I believe he started the year with a number of consecutive games with 2 sacks before teams got smarter and did whatever they had to try to contain him. There's no telling exactly how many of the interceptions that year were because of him. And the coaches said he could have had better numbers had he just went for sacks all the time instead of playing his assignment.