Articles from the Historical Society in Josephine County Oregon

Touchdown Willie Heston

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and the team ran roughshod over a highly touted Stanford team 49 to 0. The game was played on a sandlot in Pasadena California on New Years Day, 1902.
In 1950 the University of Michigan picked it's all time All American to mark the end of the half century, they first wrote down Willie Heston of Grants Pass and then pondered the other ten selections. Willie Heston's accomplishments on the Field of play are well documented but no awards were greater to him then when he won his first case as a lawyer in 1906.

His reply to the Michigan press was," I am vindicated at last," after the jury had given its verdict."It was the most pleasant sensation I have ever felt, because it sets me right in the eyes of those people who had come to believe that I was an uneducated ward of the State University. " Rest assured, William Martin (Willie) Heston of Grants Pass Oregon used his searchlight, and jumped over all the obsticles in his way to a position of greatness as an athlete, and scholar.

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