re: Billy Cannon versus Leonard Fournette

you're beyond STUPID !!!

yup, was about to post this.

cannon ran a sub 9.8 100 yd dash (i forget the exact hundreth number, 9.7-something), that's very comparable with fournette's 100m time of 10.65.

i don't think he's as good as fournette, bugga will be the goat when he leaves here, but cannon could have definitely played in today's game and excelled at it. he was also a bad arse linebacker.

he wasn't just fast in a straight line like most white guys, he had good agility, instincts, great footwork and raw-boned strength.

in a modern day s&c program he probably would've played around 230+lbs or more and could've played at 250+. he probably would've been faster if he trained like today's athletes, etc.

in college, cannon was 215lbs of comparatively untrained, natural bad arse. in the pros, he was all pro at two different positions (rb and te) and is arguably the greatest te of all time. led the afl in yardage, played in 6 afl championship games. i think he still owns the titans single game scoring record.

cannon is easily top 5. i would say he's 3rd. argument can be made for second since him and faulk are two different types of backs but faulk obviously played in a much more competitive era so i give faulk the tie breaker.

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Billy Cannon played both ways at LSU. In high school he ran the 100 yard dash in under 10 seconds, and he was a champion in the shot put. He was a tremendous athlete. Anyone who says his ability is not up to today's standards does not know what he is talking about. He played in the NFL for years, though mostly as a tight end.

It is not possible to compare Cannon to Fournette. Neither of them is used in the same fashion and neither is asked to do what the other did.

LF is the best back I've seen at LSU. Cecil Collins comes in 2nd, followed by Faulk, Alaexander, Hilliard, and then probably Cannon.

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Hey ,some criminal ran really well for 4 weeks against 3 scrubs and Auburn.

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This differs from LF7 how? Outside of the criminal part. He had an average season last year by LSU starting back standards and has run really well against some really bad run defenses this year for 4 weeks.

At Istrouma High, he set a state record with 57-4 in the shot put and ran the 100 yard dash in 9.7 seconds, At LSU, he threw the heavier (16-pound) college shot over 54 feet and improved his time to 9.4 seconds in the 100—becoming the first to put together such an unlikely double.

Istrouma coach James “Big Fuzzy” Brown started a weight training program in 1954, and Cannon—then a 168-pound sophomore—became the best-known prodigy of Baton Rouge weighlifting guru Alvin Roy. When Cannon’s weight reached 200 pounds, he was only 12 pounds short of the Olympic lifting record.

As a senior, Cannon gained more than 100 yards in 12 of Istrouma’s 13 games and scored 33 touchdowns. He had 178 yards rushing and three touchdowns as Istrouma capped its unbeaten season with a 40-6 rout of Fair Park in the state finals. Cannon was all-everything.

He led LSU to the national championship in the fall of 1958. He was not only the fastest player on that squad, but was one of the biggest. There was one 210-pounder on each of the three units (White team, Go team, Chinese Bandits). Nobody else outweighed Cannon by more than one pound.

After the 1958 season, Cannon finished third in Heisman Trophy voting behind Pete Dawkins of Army and Randy Duncan of Iowa. Nobody else was close, and Cannon led in the South and Southwest.

The following year, LSU’s bid for a repeat title came up inches short in a one-point loss to Tennessee at Knoxville. But the Heisman voting was a one horse race. Cannon piled up 1,929 points, more than tripling runner-up Richie Lucas of Penn State. He had more points than the combined totals of the next eight players, sweeping all sections of the country.

He probably already had the Heisman Trophy locked up when the No. 1-ranked Tigers played Ole Miss on Oct. 31, 1959—Halloween night. But Cannon erased all doubts that night, making the longest run in LSU history. It wasn’t the longest in distance, but it was the longest in legend.----------------------

Just to dispel a few of the idiots posting in this thread...taken from the LA Sports Hall of Fame webpage.

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LF is the best back I've seen at LSU. Cecil Collins comes in 2nd, followed by Faulk, Alaexander, Hilliard, and then probably Cannon.

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It's difficult trying to understand why so many posters disrespect Jeremy Hill. Dude had speed and broke away similar to LF7

Larry289 - great post

It's worth noting that prior to Alvin Roy bringing weight lifting to Istrouma High as part of training that the sports world frowned on weight lifting for sports training. They had the mindset that bulking would slow athletes down when it works just the opposite. Billy would have been a monster training under today's conditions. Wait, he was a monster back then!

To the guy that brought up how slow Cannon was at the end of "the run" Billy admitted how flat out wasted tired he was. They had been playing in rain (uni's soaked) and playing both O and D. I've stated before if Cannon doesn't make the game saving tackle on the game's final play from LSU's 1 yard line LSU loses that game. The PR never would have had the effect it did had the Tigers not upset Ole Miss that night.

It would be interesting to see LF7 play D as well.

wow, you are dense.