Article By Mike Casella on 17th February, 2010
His teammates described him as the kind of player who runs back an 89-yard punt return against Ole Miss.
And with that, Billy Cannon ran his way into LSU and college football folklore as the first native son of the deep South to win the Heisman Trophy.
For those who don't know, the LSU-Ole Miss rivalry is one of those off the radar series that redefines the whole notion of you had to be there.
While the two schools began play against each other in 1894, this rivalry really took off in the 1950s and 1960s when each team regularly fielded nationally ranked teams.
For a time afterward, the annual contest tempered into a simmer as the Ole Miss fo...
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