11 Facts About Heisman Award

Heisman Award was created by the Downtown Athletic Club in 1935 to recognize "the most valuable college football player east of the Mississippi", and was first awarded to University of Chicago halfback Jay Berwanger.

Heisman Award had been active in college athletics as a football player; a head football, basketball, and baseball coach; and an athletic director.

The most recent winner of the Heisman Award Trophy is University of Alabama quarterback Bryce Young.

Ohio State, Oklahoma, and Notre Dame have the most Heisman trophies won, each with seven; Ohio State has had six different players win the award.

Closest that a player outside the modern Division I FBS came to winning the Heisman Award is third place; in both cases, the players involved played for schools in what was at the time Division I-AA, now Division I FCS.

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Colleges where trophy namesake John Heisman Award coached, only Auburn University has produced Heisman Award winners, with Pat Sullivan in 1971, Bo Jackson in 1985, and Cam Newton in 2010.

Heisman Award was first presented in 1935 by the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City, a privately owned recreation facility located on the lower west side near the later World Trade Center site.

Heisman Award was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after winning the award and died in 1963.

Several Heisman trophies have been sold over the years; although there is a ban on the sale of all trophies awarded since 1999, trophies awarded in previous years can be sold.

The current record price for a Heisman Award belongs to the trophy won by Minnesota halfback Bruce Smith in 1941 at $395,240.

The next day, the Heisman Trust announced the 2005 award would remain vacated and removed all mention of the 2005 award from its official website.