Sunday, September 6, 2009

Larry Kelley heisman trophy winner 1936

Larry Kelley, Yale University, the late Heisman Trophy winner in 1936, then found himself under the eyes of six months ago when he sold the statuette at auction for $ 328,100, died Tuesday at his home in Hightstown, New Jersey , an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Kelley, a native of Ohio, played football in high school in Williamsport, Pa. then attended the Peddie School in Larry Kelley heisman trophy winner 1936Hightstown. The Princeton campus was nearby, but Kelley's football coach at Peddie was a Yale graduate and took him to New Haven. Kelley also played baseball and basketball at Yale University and graduated as an honor student. Has earned a reputation as a glib and colorful character, tracing the development of his personality, the upheaval of 1934 in Princeton. As Kelley says, Merri Scott, Yale's defeat the left, observed on half-back substitute Tigers, who seek the man helpless, must be replaced. After graduation, Kelley has rejected the chance to be in a movie, the title will be "Kelley Yale" and rejected the offer of the National Football League's Detroit Lions. He returned to the Peddie School, where he teaches and coaches football and has also taught at Cheshire Academy in Connecticut. He served as director of Alumni Peddie before retiring in 1975.

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