Cunningham was also a star player on the 1972 Trojan team that began the season at #1, went undefeated and won the National Championship by beating Ohio State 42-17 in the Rose Bowl. He was especially effective on short yardage plays.
Those were great USC teams. Anthony Davis, too. Never forget the Notre Dame game when they were down 24-0 and came back to score 55 unanswered points.
Jerry Claiborne, a former Bryant assistant, said, “Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in 60 minutes than Martin Luther King did in 20 years.”
Mosi Tatupu played a long time for the Patriots as well.
I lived in Hawaii then, and he was the most famous person in Hawaii when he played at USC. Everybody in Hawaii rooted for USC then.