Q 01/05

Which football stadium is nicknamed 'The House That Doak Built' after the crowds Doak Walker drew?

A) Rose Bowl

B) Cotton Bowl

C) Orange Bowl

D) Rice Stadium

Answer · why

B) Cotton Bowl

The Cotton Bowl gained about 30,000 seats while Walker played home games there for SMU. He liked to joke that he never got a single blister helping to...

Q 02/05

Which Hall of Fame quarterback was Doak Walker's teammate in high school and again in Detroit?

A) Otto Graham

B) Sammy Baugh

C) Bobby Layne

D) Sid Luckman

Answer · why

C) Bobby Layne

Bobby Layne played for rival Texas while Walker starred at SMU, and decades later he presented his old friend for induction into the Pro Football Hall...

Q 03/05

The Doak Walker Award, presented by SMU, honors college football's top player at which position?

A) Quarterback

B) Linebacker

C) Wide receiver

D) Running back

Answer · why

D) Running back

Running back is the only position considered, and each winner takes home a bronze sculpture of Walker himself.

Q 04/05

Which Texas-born soft drink company teamed with SMU in 1989 to create the Doak Walker Award?

A) Dr Pepper

B) Big Red

C) Coca-Cola

D) Pepsi

Answer · why

A) Dr Pepper

Dr Pepper was created by a pharmacist in Waco in the 1880s and went on sale a year before Coca-Cola.

Q 05/05

Doak Walker was in which year of college when he beat Charlie Justice for the 1948 Heisman Trophy?

A) Freshman

B) Sophomore

C) Junior

D) Senior

Answer · why

C) Junior

A junior that season, Walker also finished third in the Heisman voting as a sophomore in 1947 and again as a senior in 1949.