Former Heisman Trophy winner and U.S. Naval Academy three-sport great Roger Staubach is this year's recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Award, the most prestigious honor bestowed on an individual by the NCAA.

Currently the president of The Staubach Company, the Hall of Fame quarterback becomes the 33rd person to receive the "Teddy," which will be awarded at the NCAA Convention's annual honors dinner January 9 in San Diego.

Known primarily for his football heroics while at Navy, Staubach also earned three letters in basketball and one in baseball. In addition to the 1963 Heisman, he also won the Walter Camp Memorial Trophy, the Maxwell Trophy and was consensus all-America. At one time the holder of 28 Navy school records, he led the Midshipmen to the 1964 Cotton Bowl, where he set then-Cotton Bowl records for completions (21) and passing yards (228) for second- ranked Navy.

He played center field, left field and pitched for the Academy's baseball team, too, displaying versatile talents similar to those he showed in the fall. As a senior, Staubach led the Middies in runs batted in and stolen bases. An outstanding fielder, he played errorless baseball as a junior.

He became the first sophomore to win the Thompson Trophy Cup, which honors the midshipman who has done the most during the year for the promotion of Navy athletics and became the only three-time winner of the award by receiving it in each of his next two seasons. In 1965, he won the Naval Academy Athletic Association Sword, becoming the fourth midshipman since 1900 to win both the Thompson Cup and NAAA Sword.

After serving active naval duty from 1965-69, Staubach began a professional football career that would make him one of the National Football League's all-time quarterbacks, leading the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl victories, winning two National Football Conference Offensive Player of the Year awards and leading the NFL in passing four times. His best year may have been 1971, when he was the NFL's Most Valuable Player and The Sporting News Player of the Year, then was the Most Valuable Player in the 1972 Super Bowl. Inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1985, he had previously been inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame in 1981.

Staubach paved the way for a successful post-football career during the offseason by serving as vice-president of the Henry S. Miller Company from 1969-80. He was chairman and chief executive officer of The Holloway-Staubach Corporation from 1977-81. Since 1981, he has been chairman of the board and CEO of The Staubach Company, a full-service real estate strategy and services firm.

The former football star is or has been active in numerous business and community organizations, including serving on leadership boards for the United Way of America; Brinker International; Children's Scholarship Fund; American Advantage Funds; International Home Foods, Inc.; The Salvation Army; and the Institute for Aerobics Research.