BATON ROUGE -- LSU’s legendary halfback Billy Cannon, the winner of the 1959 Heisman Trophy who led the Tigers to the 1958 national championship, has been elected to the prestigious College Football Hall of Fame, it was announced Thursday.
Cannon will be inducted into the Hall of Fame along with 12 other former college gridiron greats and two coaching legends at the National Football Foundation’s Annual Awards Dinner in New York City at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on December 9. He will be the first LSU player inducted into the Hall since Tommy Casanova was honored in 1995.
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