Pete Dawkins (College football. Born, Royal Oak, Mich., Mar. 8, 1938.) Determination helped lift Peter Miller Dawkins from a little-thought-of plebe quarterback to a Heisman Trophy-winning halfback on Col. Red Blaik’s unbeaten final Army squad in 1958. Dawkins, a polio victim as a child, came back to become the quarterback on his eighth-grade football team […]
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