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Did Roger Staubach ever win the Heisman Trophy?

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Yes, In 1963, Staubach became the second Naval Academy football player in four years to win the Heisman Trophy.

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Roger Thomas Staubach, nicknamed “Roger the Dodger”, “Captain America”, and “Captain Comeback”, is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League for 11 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys.

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Staubach was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the only child of Elizabeth (née Smyth) and Robert Staubach.

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He is of partial German descent and grew up in Silverton, a northeastern suburb of Cincinnati.

During his junior year at the Naval Academy, Staubach’s color-blindness was detected and he was commissioned directly into the Supply Corps, which did not necessitate being able to tell the difference between red (port) and green (starboard) lights or to discern the color differences in electrical circuitry.

He was a tenth-round “future” selection in the 1964 NFL Draft by the Cowboys. The NFL allowed the Cowboys to draft him one year before his college eligibility was over.


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