In this edition of the Sports Break, we cover the top events in sports history along with the players and athletes that were a part of them on December 8. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
8 December in Sports History
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Daily Digits December 8
Sports history is made every day of the year. We will preserve at least a small sampling from some great athletes every day based on the uniform number they wore.
21 - 37 - 41 - 40 - 39 - 13 - 22 - 20 - 27 - 15 - 1
December 8, 1942 - 8th Heisman Trophy Award won by Georgia Halfback, Number 21, Frank Sinkwich
December 8, 1948 - 14th Heisman Trophy Award won by SMU Halfback, Number 37, Doak Walker
December 8, 1953 - 19th Heisman Trophy Award was won by Notre Dame Halfback, Number 41, Johnny Lattner
December 8, 1955 - 21st Heisman Trophy Award was won by Ohio State Halfback, Number 40, Howard Cassady
December 8, 1955 - Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Number 39, Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award. Of course it didn't hurt that the Dodgers also won the World Series that year.
December 8, 1961 - Syracuse Nationals Point Guard, Number 21, Larry Costello scored an NBA record 32 consecutive points without a miss
December 8, 1961 - Philadelphia Warriors center, Number 13, Wilt Chamberlain scores 78 points in 151-147 3OT defeat to LA Lakers at Philadelphia Civic Center; 2nd highest game total in the NBA history
December 8, 1973 - 39th Heisman Trophy Award was won by Penn State Running back, Number 22, John Cappelletti
December 8, 1977 - 43rd Heisman Trophy Award was won by Texas Running back, Number 20, Earl Campbell
December 8, 1987 - Philadelphia Flyers' Number 27, Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal
December 8, 2007 - 73rd Heisman Trophy Award was won by Florida Quarterback, Number 15, Tim Tebow
December 8, 2018 - 84th Heisman Trophy Award was won by Oklahoma Quarterback, Number 1, Kyler Murray
Credits
A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: On This Day Sports, the Sports Reference's family of website databases & Stathead.com.
Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of Frank Sinkwich, player of the Georgia Bulldogs football team circa 1942
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