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Larry Kelley

Age: 85

second football player to win the Heisman Trophy (1936); All-American end and senior captain at Yale; his 49-yard touchdown reception in 1934 gave Yale a 7-0 victory, snapping Princeton's 15-game winning streak; sold his trophy at auction in 1999 for $328,110 to raise money for his nieces and nephews; elected to the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame in 1969; He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Died: Hightstown, N.J., June 27

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