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Everybody's All-American is a novel by longtime Sports Illustrated contributor Frank Deford that was made into a subsequent motion picture directed by Taylor Hackford.

It is the story of a famous college football player at the then-fictional University of Louisiana. (While there is now such an institution, it was nonexistent at the time of the work's late 1950s setting.) The main character, Gavin Grey (played in the movie by Dennis Quaid), wins the Heisman Trophy and then goes onto a professional career, but is sidetracked by marital difficulties and subsequent involvement with the Ku Klux Klan, among other misjudgments.

The work has often been said to be a fictionalization of the life of Dr. Billy Cannon, a Heisman Trophy winner from Louisiana State University in the same era who went on to become a dentist and who was later prosecuted for counterfeiting. However, Deford denies that there is any connection between his work and the real-life Dr. Cannon.

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