RENO, Nev. (AP) – Stan Heath, an all-America quarterback at Nevada who finished fifth in the voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1948, has died. He was 83.
Heath died at his home in Jesup, Ga., on Sunday. That’s the same day Nevada cracked The Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time since that 1948 team.
Heath had been battling cancer.
Ray Howard of Howard-Jones-Nobles Funeral Home in Jesup said Tuesday that the family plans a private memorial service but the date has not been set.
Heath was an inaugural member of the University of Nevada Athletic Hall of Fame. Nevada coach Chris Ault says Heath was his idol when Ault was the Wolf Pack’s quarterback in the mid-1960s.
He led the nation in passing, total offense and touchdown passes in 1948.
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