Trivia

Winner of college football's 1946 Heisman Trophy.

Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1961.

Gave his Heisman Trophy to his high school, Bonita High (La Verne, California)

Trophy-winning halfback on the football team of the United States Military Academy from 1943 to 1946.

Glenn Davis was known during his football career as "Mr. Outside", because his specialty was running around the ends. "Mr Inside" was applied to his teammate Felix "Doc" Blanchard, whose success in was running through the middle of the line.

His 1945 single-season record of 11.51 yards per carry at West Point still stands (as of 2018) as an NCAA record.

Played halfback for the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams, 1950-1951.

His wife Yvonne is the widow of 1954 Heisman Trophy winner Alan Ameche.

Inducted into the U.S. Military Academy Army Sports Hall of Fame in 2004 (inaugural class).

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 126-128. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.