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Heisman Trophy

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Heisman Trophy

Annual award given to the outstanding college gridiron football player in the U.S. The trophy was instituted in 1935 by New York City's Downtown Athletic Club and was officially named the following year for the club's first athletic director, the player-coach John Heisman. The winner is determined by a poll of sportswriters.


Heisman Trophy
awarded to the outstanding college football player of the year by New York Athletic Club. [Am. Sports: Misc.]
See : Prize


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Such violations would have made Bush ineligible under NCAA rules, and have raised questions about whether USC could be stripped of its 2004 national title and Bush of his 2005 Heisman Trophy if NCAA investigators verify the report.
that formerly served as the headquarters of the Downtown Athletic Club and the home of the mythic Heisman Trophy.
In fact, it wasn't until a lifetime later that the name Larry Kelley made another headline: "Yale's Heisman Trophy Winner of 1936 auctions off his trophy for $328,110.
 
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