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Apr 30, 2009 1:58 pm US/Eastern

Gino Torretta Entering College Hall Of Fame

NEW YORK (CBS4) ― Heisman Trophy winner and former Miami Hurricane Gino Torretta was one of 16 players selected for induction in the College Football Hall of Fame. Torretta led the Hurricanes to a co-national championship in 1991 and piloted the Canes to the 1992 national championship game, where he and the Canes were hammered by the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Torretta threw for more than 7,600 yards during his career and was the "U's" second Heisman Trophy winner. (Vinny Testaverde was the first)

During Torretta's Heisman run in 1992, he also picked up the Maxwell Award, Davey O'Brien Award, Unitas Award and was a consensus All-American.

Torretta joined Heisman winner Tim Brown, Penn State's Curt Warner, New Mexico State's Pervis Atkins, Arizona's Chuck Cecil, Auburn's Ed Dyas, West Virginia's Major Harris, BYU's Gordon Hudson, Alabama's Woodrow Lowe, Stanfords Ken Margerum, Texas' Steve McMichael, Iowa's Larry Station, Georgia Tech's Pat Swilling, and Nebraska's Grant Wistrom in this year's Hall of Fame class.

The NFF's veteran's committee selected Williams Lewis, who played center for Harvard from 1892-93. Coaches John Robinson of USC and Dick MacPherson of Syracuse will also be inducted in December.

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