COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M’s first Heisman Trophy winner, John David Crow, has died at the age of 79, according to KBTX-TV in College Station. The cause of his death on Wednesday night has not been released.
Crow and his wife, Carolyn, had lived in College Station after he retired from A&M’s athletics administration in 2001.
Crow, who grew up in Springhill, La., won the Heisman in 1957 after his A&M coach at the time, Paul “Bear” Bryant, infamously said, “They ought to do away with the thing” if Heisman electors didn’t vote the young man he’d dubbed “Ol’ Crow” as the winner.