Gary Joseph Beban was born on August 5,1946 and is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League for two seasons with the Washington Redskins.
15 Facts About Gary Beban
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Gary Beban played college football for the UCLA Bruins, where he won both the Maxwell Award and the Heisman Trophy in 1967.
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Gary Beban was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988.
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The son of an Italian-born mother and a first-generation Croatian-American father, Beban graduated from Sequoia High School in Redwood City, California.
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Gary Beban, known as "The Great One", excelled in both academics and athletics, majoring in European history while quarterbacking the Bruins across three straight winning seasons.
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Gary Beban was named a National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete and received the Dolly Cohen award, given to the player best combining academic and football achievement.
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UCLA became the first school to have a player of the year winner in both basketball and football in the same year, with Gary Beban winning the Heisman Trophy and Lew Alcindor winning the US Basketball Writers Association player of the year award in 1968.
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Gary Beban was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Gary Beban is a charter member of the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame, and the Bruins retired his No 16 jersey.
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Gary Beban was the third quarterback taken, after Greg Landry and Eldridge Dickey, ahead of Mike Livingston and Ken Stabler.
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Gary Beban signed a reported three-year contract worth $200,000 three days later.
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Gary Beban played for the Redskins in 1968 and 1969, under new head coach Vince Lombardi.
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But, sitting behind veteran quarterback and future Hall of Famer Sonny Jurgensen, Gary Beban was given little game time, and the professional stardom portended by his college career was not forthcoming.
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In 1971, Gary Beban joined the Los Angeles office of CB Richard Ellis, a global real estate services company.
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Gary Beban was named president and general manager of the company in 1985, and in 1998 became senior executive managing director of the company's Global Corporate Services unit.