Desmond Howard, Barry Alvarez and the late Pat Tillman were among the 14 newly elected members of the College Football Hall of Fame announced Thursday by the National Football Foundation in New York. Howard, a speedy and diminutive receiver, dominated the Big Ten in 1991 for Michigan, scoring a school-record 23 touchdowns and 138 points. To put an exclamation mark on his spectacular season, Howard returned a punt 93 yards for a touchdown against rival Ohio State. As he was being mobbed by teammates in the end zone, Howard lifted a knee high to his chest and jabbed out a stiff arm, and just like that a college football tradition was born: the Heisman pose. – From Minneapolis Star Tribune