Charlie Ward
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| Florida State Seminoles No. 17 | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
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| High school | Thomas County Central |
| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | October 12, 1970 |
| Place of birth | Thomasville, Georgia |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
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| College Football Hall of Fame (2006) | |
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| Career information | |
| NBA draft | 1994 / Round: 1 / Pick: 26th overall |
| Selected by the New York Knicks | |
| Playing career | 1994–2005 |
| Position | Point guard |
| Number | 21, 17 |
| Career history | |
| 1994–2004 | New York Knicks |
| 2004 | San Antonio Spurs |
| 2004–2005 | Houston Rockets |
| Career NBA statistics | |
| Points | 3,947 (6.3 PPG) |
| Rebounds | 1,648 (2.6 RPG) |
| Assists | 2,539 (4.0 APG) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Charlie Ward Jr. (born October 12, 1970) is a retired American professional NBA basketball player, college football Heisman Trophy winner, Davey O'Brien Award winner and a Major League Baseball draftee. Despite his NCAA football success, Ward was one of the very few players who won a Heisman trophy but was not drafted in the NFL draft. He won the College Football National Championship with the Florida State University Seminoles. Ward played several years with the New York Knicks and started in the NBA Finals. He was inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame along with Emmitt Smith and his former college football coach Bobby Bowden in 2006. An avid tennis player, Ward also displayed his skills at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Tournament in 1994.
Ward won the 1993 Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and Davey O'Brien Award as a quarterback for Florida State University, and subsequently led the Seminoles to their first-ever National Championship when FSU defeated Nebraska 18–16 in the 1993 Orange Bowl. The Seminoles had suffered their only defeat of the season to a second-ranked Notre Dame team, but their path to the National Championship was cleared a week later when the Irish were upset at home by Boston College. Ward holds the second-largest margin of victory in the history of Heisman trophy balloting, with a 1,622 point difference, second only to O.J. Simpson's 1,750 point win in 1968. He was also the only Heisman winner to play in the NBA. In 1993, Charlie Ward won the James E. Sullivan Award from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) as the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.
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