William Conrad Heiss Jr. (April 25, 1923 – May 27, 2020) was an American football player and coach of multiple sports.
On October 26 of that season, Illinois visited Michigan in Ann Arbor for a game that ultimately decided the conference title.
With the Illini trailing 7–0 in the first half, Heiss caught a 30-yard pass from Perry Moss, advancing to the Michigan 16-yard line and setting up a touchdown by Paul Patterson that tied the score going into halftime.
Heiss was the fifth head football coach at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado and he held that position for two seasons, from 1948 until 1949, winning the New Mexico conference in 1949.
[5] A rarity occurred in the 1964 season when the opposing team, Northern Arizona, forfeited the game on December 10, 1964.