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Heisman winner Sullivan dead at 69

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Pat Sullivan, a former TCU and Samford head coach who won the 1971 Heisman Trophy as a quarterback at Auburn, has died. He was 69.

Sullivan had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2003.

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