A clipping from The Bulletin from Nov. 28, 1962, when Oregon State quarterback Terry Baker won the Heisman Trophy.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in The Bulletin on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1962.

CORVALLIS (UPI) — Terry Baker, who has been breaking records since his sophomore year at Oregon State, may have set another unoffical one.

Perhaps no other athlete has received as many honors in one day as the Beaver quarterback collected in a few hours Tuesday.

In chronological order, Baker:

— Was named first team quarterback on the All-America team selected by the American Football Coaches Association.

— Was assured of one more college football game when the Beavers accepted an invitation to play Villanova Dec. 15 in the Liberty Bowl at Philadelphia.

— Was named winner of the Heisman Memorial Trophy as the nation’s outstanding college football player, the first player ever from the West Coast to get the award.

— And was chosen by the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame as the outstanding scholar-athlete on the West Coast.

In addition, Oregon State said it would retire his jersey — No. 11.

It all adds up to a strenuous three weeks between now and Dec. 15 for the senior quarterback who led the nation in total offense with 2,275 yards this season.

Baker was called from a class by OSU athletic director R. S. (Spec) Kenne and told he had won the Heisman award.

“I’m A Lucky Boy”

“No kidding? That’s great. I’m a very lucky boy,” he said. Then, “I’ve got to get back to class.”

An interest in going to class while he can now is natural.

Baker is due in New York Monday night to receive the scholar-athlete award. He and the other members of the coaches’ All-America team will appear on the Ed Sullivan television show. Wednesday he will receive the Heisman Trophy, given by the Downtown Athletic Club of New York.

And looming over Baker and all other Beaver players is the fact that the Liberty Bowl game falls at the end of the fall term final examination week at Oregon State. Baker, who has a 3.04 grade point average, must get most of his exams out of the way before the Beavers leave for Philadelphia.

He missed one practice a week and sometimes two because of an engineering laboratory class during the season, but still led Oregon State to an 8-2 record with losses only to Iowa and Washington.

And when Baker returns from the Liberty Bowl, he’ll find he is late for the start of basketball season. He is being counted on as an important member of coach Slats Gill’s quintet which was ranked sixth in United Press International’s pre-season poll of coaches.