Later today Fernando Mendoza will take the stage on one of the biggest, and most historic, stages in all of college football. He will do so as the quarterback of an undefeated team, a Heisman Trophy winner, and a potential first-overall selection in the NFL Draft.
But for a time, Mendoza’s future was at a different historic venue instead of the Rose Bowl.
The Yale Bowl.
Mendoza originally committed to Yale ahead of his senior season, and while on a tour of the campus he posed with the Heisman Trophy won by running back Clint Frank back in 1937, the only Yale player ever to win college football’s most prestigious award.
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