Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork reveals that Archie Griffin will get a statue outside Ohio Stadium after his statue at the Rose Bowl was officially unveiled Saturday.
Following the ceremony that unveiled Archie Griffin's statue at the Rose Bowl on Saturday, Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork revealed that a statue of the two-time Heisman Trophy winner will be unveiled outside Ohio Stadium later this month on Aug. 30, one day before the Buckeyes’ season opener against Akron.unveiled a statue to honor Griffin in the Rose Bowl Stadium's Court of Champions, marking the 50th anniversary of his first Heisman Trophy award.
“I am humbled to have a statue in my honor at the Rose Bowl Stadium, one of the most prestigious stadiums in America. I feel blessed to have played in four Rose Bowl Games,” Griffin said. “But please know that when you honor me with this recognition, you also honor the teams that I played on during my four years at The Ohio State University. I was simply in the right place, at the right time, with the right people. That’s what allowed me to enjoy the success that my teammates and I experienced.
“Archie Griffin is one of the greatest players in college football history, and we applaud the Rose Bowl Stadium for erecting his statue as part of the new Heisman Walk,” National Football Foundation president and CEO Steve Hatchell said. “As a College Football Hall of Fame inductee and long-standing member of the National Football Foundation board of directors, he has dedicated his life to promoting and protecting the game.
“On behalf of The Ohio State University and the Department of Athletics, I wish to extend our most sincere thanks and gratitude to the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation for this wonderful honor of memorializing our all-time great, Archie Griffin, with a statue at the Rose Bowl Stadium,” former Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said. “Knowing Archie, he would want a statue for all the Heisman Trophy winners along the Legacy Walk.
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