The University of Chicago’s Jay Berwanger won the inaugural award. Downtown Athletic Club director John Heisman died the following year, and the trophy was renamed in his honor. Larry Kelley of ...

John Heisman, who played guard, center and tackle at the University of Pennsylvania, championed many things that are now commonplace in the sport, including the forward pass, cutting the game into ...

130 years ago Akron — then Buchtel College — struck gold when it hired John Heisman as its second head coach. The hire meant the first winning season in team history as Heisman used his ...

1964 John Huarte, 1987 Tim Brown As of 2019, the two oldest living Heisman winners shared similar paths to their legendary careers. With nine years apart, John Lujack and Paul Hornung led their ...

The Heisman Trophy will be awarded to one of four ... the Mississippi," but the death of Downtown Athletic Club director John Heisman in 1936 saw it renamed and broadened to include players ...

Handed out for almost 90 years, since the 1935 season, the honor named for legendary player and coach John Heisman is handed to the "most outstanding college football player in the United States ...

The trophy was instituted in 1935 and named after the former New York University athletic director John Heisman. The Heisman Trophy was awarded by the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City until ...