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Robert Funderburk's avatar

Ali and Billy Cannon are my all time greatest athletes. Cannon led LSU to the national championship in 1958 and won the Heismann in 1959. I used to watch him at track meets at LSU. He ran a 9.4 hundred yard dash(the world record was 9.3, set by Jesse Owens in the '36 Olympics.) After winning the 100, Cannon would switch to field events and win the shot put. It was said of him if he concentrated on speed, he would be the world's fastest; strength, he would be the world's strongest.

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Geraldine A. V. Hughes's avatar

History in the making! Suburb writing and stellar article, thank you, my Dad would have enjoyed reading it! All blessings, Geraldine

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