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Touchdown Willie Heston
Grants Pass, Oregon
"WILLIAM MARTIN HESTON 1878-1963"
by Michael Oaks Josephine County Historical Society
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Willie Heston of Grants Pass, Oregon was hailed by the University of Michigan to be the greatest football player to ever play for the Wolverines in the first 50 years of this century.
He was twice "All American", while romping on the gridiron for the University of Michigan Wolverines (1901-1904), and set the all time scoring record of 72 touchdowns that still stand to this day. Willie Heston always claimed Grants Pass, Oregon as his hometown.
The most positive things in his life began right here. His father and mother lived and died in Grants Pass along with his brother Alfred and his family.
THE BEGINNING
His father, John William Heston, was a tenant farmer near Galesburg, Illinois at the time of William's birth.
At the age of four, Martin, as his parents called him, moved with his parents, brother Alfred and his three sisters to Rippey, Iowa. Martin's father rented a river bottom farm where the family lived for five years. It was while at Rippey, that Martin contracted "Whooping cough" followed by "Pneumonia". He was seven years old and almost died. He had another close call, almost drowning in the Raccoon River. Fortunately his sister Grace pulled him out.
When Martin was nine, his father moved his family to a ranch in southwestern Kansas owned by his brother-in-law, Clark Gray. Martin was given the job of herding cattle on the range nine months of the year. During December, January and February, Martin was permitted to go to a little ... Continued - Part 2
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