Vic Janowicz

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Victor Felix "Crash" Janowicz (February 26, 1930 – February 27, 1996) was an American football halfback and baseball catcher whose promising National Football League (NFL) career was cut short by a serious automobile accident in southern California. In 1950, he was awarded the Heisman Trophy and selected as the UPI College Football Player of the Year while a member of the Ohio State Buckeyes team. He went on to become the first Heisman Trophy winner to play major league baseball, a feat that Auburn Tigers halfback Bo Jackson duplicated 35 years later. Janowicz was selected in the seventh round of the 1952 NFL draft and played professionally for the Washington Redskins in the 1954 and 1955 seasons. He was one of the few athletes in the post-World War II era to play in both the NFL and Major League Baseball, where he spent two seasons (1953-54) as a catcher and third baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Janowicz was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976. At 5-foot-9, 187 pounds, Janowicz played bigger than his somewhat modest size on the gridiron. The fan favorite was known to run over defenders if he couldn't run around them, a bruising style that prompted local s

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