The Sooner that started it all is Billy Vessels. Vessels entered the national spotlight in his 1952 Heisman season that included an historic college football game. From his high school field in ...

Billy Vessels, 70, the elusive Oklahoma halfback who won the 1952 Heisman Trophy, died Saturday in his home in Coral Gables, Fla., after a long illness. Vessels was an All-American in 1952 and was ...

More than 70 years later, Ron Shipman still remembers what it was like in Cleveland, Oklahoma, circa 1952, when hometown hero Billy Vessels ran away with Oklahoma's first Heisman Trophy. “ ...

This story originally published in April 2007. OU now has seven Heisman winners: Billy Vessels (1952), Steve Owens (1969), Billy Sims (1978), Jason White (2003), Sam Bradford (2008), Baker ...

CLEVELAND, Okla. -- Billy Vessels has long been known as the big man in Cleveland. From his days of being a standout at Cleveland High all the way until his death, the former Sooner great held a ...

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The Sooner that started it all is Billy Vessels. Vessels entered the national spotlight in his 1952 Heisman season that included an historic college football game. From his high school field in ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) _ Billy Vessels, the elusive Oklahoma halfback who won the 1952 Heisman Trophy, died Saturday. He was 70. He died at his South Florida home after a long illness ...