College Career
See also: 1951 Wisconsin Badgers football team, 1952 Wisconsin Badgers football team, 1953 Wisconsin Badgers football team, and 1954 Wisconsin Badgers football teamAmeche earned All-America honors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he played linebacker as well as fullback in single-platoon days. In four years as a Badger, he gained 3,212 yards, then the NCAA record, scored 25 touchdowns, and averaged 4.8 yards a carry. Ameche won the Heisman in 1954.
Ameche is one of six Wisconsin players whose number (35) has been retired, and one of six whose name and number appears on the Camp Randall Stadium façade as of 2008: fellow Heisman winner and current career rushing record holder Ron Dayne (33), Elroy Hirsch (40), Dave Schreiner (80), Allan Schafer (83), and Pat Richter (88) are the others. Ameche was inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1967 and into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975.
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