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BYRON WHITE
HB, 6-1, 185, 3L, Wellington, Colo. (Wellington)
Equally as known by his nickname
(“Whizzer”) and more so as Justice
White… Colorado’s first All-America in
any sport, as he was a consensus selection
in 1937, including from Associated Press, UPI, International
News Service, NEA, LIB, Colliers Magazine (Grantland Rice) and
The Sporting News… Led the nation in several categories in 1937:
rushing (1,121 yards), total offense (1,596), all-purpose yards
(1,970) and scoring (122 points)… Finished second in the 1937
Heisman Trophy voting… The 1,121 rushing yards and 122 points
were also NCAA records, and were not broken until colleges went
to a 10-game schedule in 1949… Rushed for over 100 yards seven
times in that ’37 season, almost unheard of in those days… As the
record book evolved through the years, it is estimated that at one
time, he held as many as 50 individual school marks; in fact, at the
time of his death in 2002, he still held 15 records some 65 years
after his graduation… One that has stood the test of time is the
longest punt in Buff annals, as his 83-yard kick against Missouri on
Oct. 2, 1937, often carried the footnote, “without roll”… He participated
in six plays of 75 yards or longer (nine 63-plus) in his CU
career (runs, returns and the mammoth punt)… The first and one
of three Buffs to have his jersey number retired (#24)… He was
also a .400 hitter on the baseball team, and a standout on CU’s basketball
squad that made the N.I.T. in 1938… The fourth overall
pick in the first round by Pittsburgh in the 1938 NFL Draft, he was
a two-time all-pro halfback with both the Steelers (1939) and
Detroit (1940-41); in-between, he studied at Oxford… He led the
NFL in rushing twice (567 yards in 1938, 514 in 1940), the first
player ever to lead the NFL in rushing his first two seasons… The
only player in NFL history to lead the league in rushing as a rookie
(1938) for a last place team (Pittsburgh was 2-9)… Awarded the
prestigious Rhodes scholarship (in 1938) after an academic career
LEON WHITE
OL, 6-3, 275, 3L, Bell, Calif. (Bell)
A first-team All-American as a senior in
1977, selected to the American Football
Coaches Association/Kodak team as its
center (UPI made him a second-team
choice)… A Playboy Preseason All-American at tackle prior to his
original senior year in 1976, but after he went down with a seasonending
knee injury one game into the season, the Big Eight granted
him an extra year of eligibility; he moved to center for the following
season… Won CU’s John Mack Award as the outstanding offensive
lineman as selected by his teammates as a senior… He
lettered at three different positions on the offensive line: guard
(1973-75), tackle (1975-76) and center (1977), and is believed to be
the only player in Big Eight history to have done so… He started
at least one game in each season, the only known player in CU
history to start games in five different years… Owned a 465-pound
398
at CU where he had 180 hours of A and 6 hours of B… Hall of Fame
Gold Medal Award winner in 1962… One of three inaugural members
of the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame (1965 induction)…
Presented the Theodore Roosevelt Award at the 1969 NCAA
Honors luncheon… Named to CU’s All-Century Team in 1989, as he
received more votes than anyone else… GTE Academic All-
America Hall of Fame (inducted 1996)… The first inductee into the
University of Colorado Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998… Awarded
the Bronze Star for service in Europe during WWII… Named
deputy U.S. Attorney General by President John Kennedy in
1960… Named to U.S Supreme Court by Kennedy in 1962 and
served 31 years, stepping down in 1993… Died at the age of 84 on
April 15, 2002.
RUSHING PASSING
Season Att Yds Avg. TD Long Att-Com-Int Pct. Yds TD
1935 34 100 2.9 0 … 20- 9- 4 45.0 79 0
1936 127 643 5.1 8 … 33- 9- 5 27.3 120 1
1937 181 1121 6.2 13 78t 43-21- 7 48.8 475 2
Totals 342 1864 5.5 21 78t 96-39-16 40.6 674 3
PUNT RETURNS KICKOFF RETURNS
Season No. Yds Avg. TD Long No Yds Avg. TD Long
1935 6 67 11.2 0 … 1 20 20.0 0 20
1936 29 319 11.0 0 … 7 327 46.7 2 100t
1937 47 587 12.5 3 86t 4 159 39.8 0 …
Totals 82 973 11.9 3 86t 12 506 42.2 2 100t
PUNTING INTERCEPTIONS
Season No Yds Avg. Long No. Yds Avg. TD
1935 8 301 37.6 … 0 0 0.0 0
1936 53 2124 40.1 … 4 50 12.5 0
1937 63 2679 42.5 83 4 103 25.8 0
Totals 124 5104 41.2 83 8 153 19.1 0
bench press in college, one of the
top efforts in CU history at the time;
he also possessed 5.1 speed in the
40-yard dash… Played in three
All-Star games after his senior campaign:
the Japan Bowl, East-West
Shrine Game and the Hula Bowl… A
third round pick by the Los Angeles
Rams in 1978 NFL Draft (80th overall),
and played for the Rams as a
rookie that season… Gained notoriety
as a professional wrestler, first
as “Baby Bull” and then under the
name “Vader” (pictured at right).
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