“Super Steve” Spurrier, University of Florida quarterback 6’2, 203 pounds, broke many Florida and South eastern Conference records. This brilliant field general had a tremendous gridiron career that spanned 31 games. He completed 392 passes out of 692 attempts for a total yardage of 4,848, which included 37 touchdowns and picked up 442 yards rushing. Steve was the number one draft choice of the San Francisco ‘49ers where he played for nine years spelling John Brodie as quarterback in 1972 and leading the ‘49ers to a third consecutive NFC West Title. His best day as a quarterback came against Minnesota in 1973 when he completed 31 out of 48 attempts for 320 yards. In the great ’72 season he threw for five touchdown passes against Chicago to tie Brodie and Albert for the record. He was head coach at the collegiate level for 15 years. At Duke University he was 20-13-1 and won the ACC Championship in 1989, Duke’s first in 27 years. While head coach at his alma mater, Florida, his team won the SEC Championship in 1990, ’91, ’93, ’94, ’95, ’96 & 2000. His record at Florida was 122-27-1 for 12 years. This makes him the winningest coach in his tenure at one school in NCAA history. His teams have also won the SEC Conference Championship in seven of his 12 years. He is a member of the Orange Bowl Hall of Fame, the Gator Bowl Hall of Fame, and the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. He is currently the Head Football Coach at the University of South Carolina. He has been married to the former Jerri Starr for 39 years. They have four children, Lisa Amy, Steve, Jr. and Scotty, and seven grandchildren, Trey Gatson King, Davis Graham King, Jake Moody, Kyle Spurrier Moody, Lauren Moody Gavin Spurrier, Luke Spurrier and Emma Spurrier.

Elected to the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame in 1986.

The Voting

				Points
Place	Name	School	Pos.	1	2	3	Total
1st	Steve Spurrier	Florida	Sr.	QB	433	150	80 1,659
2nd	Bob Griese	Purdue	Sr.	QB	184	95	74 816
3rd	Nick Eddy	Notre Dame	Sr.	HB	39	120	99 456
4th	Gary Beban	UCLA	Jr.	QB	23	76	97 318
5th	Floyd Little	Syracuse	Sr.	RB	25	70	81 296
6th	Clint Jones	Michigan State	Sr.	RB	22	43	52 204
7th	Mel Farr	UCLA	Sr.	RB	10	29	27 115
8th	Terry Hanratty	Notre Dame	So.	QB	12	23	16 98
9th	Lloyd Phillips	Arkansas	Sr.	DT	13	10	8 67
10th	George Patton	Georgia	Sr.	DT	1	23	17 62

Florida's Steve Spurrier took every section except for the Midwest, which went to Bob Griese of Purdue. Griese's second-place finish started a succession of near misses for Boilermaker players, who finished third, second and second again over the next three seasons.

No. registered electors: 1,160
Date of announcement: November 22, 1966
Date of dinner: December 1, 1966

The positions within each region are as follows:

Place	EAST	SOUTH	MIDWEST	SOUTHWEST	FAR WEST
1st	Spurrier	Spurrier	Griese	Spurrier	Spurrier
2nd	Little	Little	Spurrier	Phillips	Beban
3rd	Eddy	Eddy	Eddy	Eddy	Griese
4th	Griese	Beban	Jones	Beban	Eddy
5th	Beban	Griese	Beban	Little	Farr