The UPI discontinued the awards after 1996.

As a senior he helped lead his school to a national title in 1976, picking up the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award, the Walter Camp Award for Player of the Year, and the United Press International ( UPI ) Player of the Year award along the way as he led the nation in rushing with 1, 948 yards.

At the time, The AP and UPI awarded the designation before bowl games, and gave the award to Alabama.

In 1980, Jaworski was named the UPI " NFL Player of the Year ", and also in that same year he received the Bert Bell Award, The Maxwell Football Club's Professional Player of the Year award, and the Professional Athlete of the Year award sponsored by Dunlop Rubber.

In 1991 he was chosen as the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year and the UPI AFL-AFC Rookie of the Year award.

The United Press International ( UPI ) NFL Coach of the Year award was first presented in 1955.

He won the UPI NFL-NFC Rookie of the Year award as a running back and became the first rookie in 20 years to finish in the NFL's top 10 in both rushing ( sixth with 755 yards ) and receiving ( eight with 53 catches for 814 yards ).

Its decline accelerated after the 1982 sale of UPI by the Scripps company.

As with its photographs, UPI thereby lost all control of its newsfilm and video library, which is now held by WTN-successor Associated Press Television News, which entered the video news field long after UPI left it.

The next day, UPI's White House correspondent, Helen Thomas, resigned her position, after working for UPI 57 years.

Their research showed 138 uses of the terms " Muslim " and " Arab " in the 48 hours after the crash in Reuters, UPI, and AP articles covering the incident.

Alabama was awarded the AP and UPI trophies ( which were given out before the bowls at that time ), while Arkansas was awarded the AFCA and FWAA trophies ( which waited until after the bowls ).

On May 17, 2000, the day after it was announced that the UPI had been acquired by News World Communications Inc., an international media conglomerate founded and controlled by Unification Church leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon which owns The Washington Times and other news media, Thomas resigned from the UPI after 57 years with the organization.

In 1978, he was named the NFC Player of the Year by UPI after leading the Saints to a 7 – 9 record.

* Marie Colvin ( 1956-2012 ) American UPI after Sunday Times journalist.

In 1980, UPI Washington syndicated news reported that the United States Postal Service was "... investigating whether Rep. James H. Quillen, R-Tenn. illegally purcahsed hundreds of commemorative Olympic postage stamps after they were recalled " after the " stamps were ordered recalled last March 11 because of the U. S. boycott of the summer games in Moscow, and those stamps had been previously sold became collectors ' items.

The next day, after attending the military press conference, UPI correspondent sent out the following dispatch: SAIGON ( UPI )-The deputy commander of South Vietnamese troops defending the Saigon area was found shot to death Tuesday night following an argument with his superior over tactics.

He was voted the UPI AFC Defensive Player of the Year, and was also named MVP of that season's Pro Bowl after tallying four sacks and a safety in that game.

The final AP Poll, conducted after the bowl games were played, picked Nebraska as champion, while the final UPI Poll, released in early December before the bowl games, had Texas first with Nebraska third ..

He was twice ( 1951 and 1952 ) an All-American, and was named the Helms Foundation Player of the Year in 1951 and the UPI National Player of the Year in 1952 after setting an NCAA record with 839 points.

He left UPI after less than one year, however, and set up shop as an independent pollster, continuing to focus on public policy issues.

UPI famously scooped the AP in reporting the assassination of US President John Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963.

His involvement was quickly ruled out ; but an inexperienced wire service reporter ( Clyde Jabin of UPI by most accounts, Joe Frazier of AP by others ), rushing to meet an imminent deadline, confused the eliminated suspect's name with the pseudonym used by the hijacker.

Pardee's quick success with the team did not go unnoticed, however, and he was named Associated Press Coach of the Year and UPI NFC Coach of the Year.

As either UP or UPI, the agency was among the largest newswire services in the world, competing domestically for about 90 years with the Associated Press and internationally with AP, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

Despite that, like all agencies that deal with huge volumes of timely information, UP and later UPI had its share of remembered mistakes.

In August, 2011 Corbis announced a deal with AP to distribute each other's photos to their clients, effectively combining the pre-1983 UPI library with that of its former main rival for some marketing purposes.

Mario Vázquez Raña, a Mexican media magnate, with a nominal American minority partner, Houston real estate developer Joseph Russo, purchased UPI out of bankruptcy for $ 40 million, losing millions during his short tenure, and firing numerous high level staff.

De Borchgrave maintained that " what was brilliant pioneering work on the part of UPI prior to World War II, with radio news, is now a static quantity and sofar as I'm concerned, certainly doesn't fit into my plans for the future.

Despite losing a long battle with the Associated Press, called " Rox " by UPI employees, United Press International's legacy was recognized by AP when it made the UPI mantra " get it first but get it right " a cornerstone of a branding campaign launched on ap. org.

As of March 2011, the UPI. com website reports that the organization is headquartered in Washington, D. C., with other addresses in Seoul, South Korea ; Beirut, Lebanon ; Tokyo, Japan ; Santiago, Chile ; and Hong Kong, China.

While much of normal news agency work is little publicized, many UP / UPI news staffers did gain fame, either while with the agency or in later careers.

* In 1979, UPI along with Telecomputing Corp. of America began making the UPI world news report available to owners of home computers.

Running the city room at night with the help of two rewrite men ( including Mike McGovern, noted below ), one night photo editor, a sports desk editor ( Brent Musburger's first job out of journalism school ) and one night copy boy who " cut and pasted AP and UPI wires for Harry's review ).

To activate the EAN protocol, the AP and UPI wire services would notify stations with a special message.

* Personal remembrance of the 1971 false alarm with scans of relevant Teletype messages and immediately following UPI story

Always a distant third to its larger rivals the Associated Press and the United Press, INS was merged with UP on May 24, 1958 to become UPI.

" It was during Kennedy's administration that she began ending presidential press conferences with a signature " Thank you, Mr. President ," reviving a tradition started by UPI ’ s Merriman Smith during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt.

* 1969: UCLA ( AP / UPI )

From 1960 through 1966, the All-League team was selected by the AFL players, and from 1967 through 1969 it was selected by a consensus of The Sporting News ( TSN ), the Associated Press ( AP ), United Press International ( UPI ), and the Newspaper Enterprise Association ( NEA ).

The following year Kennerly moved to New York for UPI where among many other assignments he photographed the Amazing Mets win the 1969 World Series.