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Gary Beban (born August 5, 1946 in Redwood City, California) is a former American football player. Son of an Italian-born mother and a first generation Croatian-American father, Beban won the 1967 Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award in college football, and the Maxwell Award, while playing quarterback for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins. August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. ... In American football, each team has 11 players on the field at one time. ... Navy quarterback Aaron Polanco sets up to throw. ... This is a list of athletic conferences of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... The NFL Draft (officially the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting) is an annual sports draft in which National Football League (NFL) teams take turns selecting amateur college American football players and other first-time eligible players. ... The 1968 National Football League Draft. ... City Landover, Maryland Other nicknames The Skins Team colors Burgundy and Gold Head Coach Joe Gibbs Owner Dan Snyder Fight song Hail to the Redskins League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1932â€“present) Eastern Division (1933-1949) American Conference (1950-1952) Eastern Conference (1953-1969) Capitol Division (1967-1969) National... August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... John Cappellettis 1973 Heisman Trophy is part of an exhibit at the Penn State All-Sports Museum located at Beaver Stadium, on the campus of the Pennsylvania State University. ... A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ... The Maxwell Award is presented annually to the collegiate American football player adjudged by a panel of sportscasters, sportswriters, and National Collegiate Athletic Association head coaches and the membership of the Maxwell Football Club to be the best in the United States. ... Navy quarterback Aaron Polanco sets up to throw. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, generally known as UCLA, is a public university whose main campus is located in the affluent Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. ...

Beban, known as "The Great One", excelled in both academics and athletics, majoring in European history, and quarterbacking the Bruins across three straight seasons. As UCLA quarterback, he was named to the all-conference team three times, and led the Bruins to a 24-5-2 record. His school record for total offense lasted 15 years. As a sophomore, he threw two touchdown passes in the last four minutes to rally the Bruins over crosstown arch-rival, USC, 20-16. In the 1966 Rose Bowl, Beban scored both UCLA's touchdowns in the Bruin's 14-12 victory over #1 ranked Michigan State. The Rose Bowl can refer to: The Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. ...

In his senior year, Beban played in the 1967 UCLA-USC game -- widely regarded as one of the best college football games of all time. The game pitted #4 ranked USC and their Heisman Trophy-candidate running back O.J. Simpson, against the #1 Bruins and Beban -- also a Heisman Trophy candidate -- with both the Pac 8 Conference and National championships on the line. Though USC would win the game, 21-20, and go on the Rose Bowl, Gary Beban would go on to win the Heisman Trophy.

Also in 1967, Beban was unanimously named to the All-American Team, won the Maxwell Trophy (given annually to the college football player judged best in the United States by a committee of college head coaches, sportscasters, sportswriters, and members of the Maxwell Football Club), and was awarded the Washington Touchdown Club Trophy. Beban was also named a National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete, and received the Dolly Cohen award, given to the player best combining academic and football achievement.

Though UCLA has turned out dozens of highly successful NFL players through the years, Gary Beban was — and still remains — the only Bruin to win the Heisman. The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. ... The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for UCLA. The Bruin mens and womens teams participate in NCAA Division I-A as part of the Pacific Ten Conference. ...

After graduating from UCLA, Beban played in the NFL for the Washington Redskins in 1968 and 1969 -- but without much of the starting time or success portended by his college career. In 1970, Gary Beban retired from professional football and went on to become a successful businessman. City Landover, Maryland Other nicknames The Skins Team colors Burgundy and Gold Head Coach Joe Gibbs Owner Dan Snyder Fight song Hail to the Redskins League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1932â€“present) Eastern Division (1933-1949) American Conference (1950-1952) Eastern Conference (1953-1969) Capitol Division (1967-1969) National... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ...

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