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Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award (often known simply as the Heisman Trophy or the Heisman), named after the former college football coach John Heisman, is awarded annually by the Heisman Trophy Trust to the most outstanding player in collegiate football. Although it is not the only award honoring...
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Sam Bradford
Samuel Jecob Bradford (born November 8, 1987 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American football quarterback, who formerly played for the Oklahoma Sooners college football team. In 2008, as a redshirt sophomore, Bradford became the second sophomore...
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Tim Tebow
Timothy Richard "Tim" Tebow (born August 14, 1987 in Manila, Philippines) is a Heisman Trophy-winning American football quarterback for the Florida Gators. He was the first college football player to both rush and pass for 20 touchdowns in a season...
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Troy Smith
Troy Smith (born July 20, 1984 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American football quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was a former starting dual-threat quarterback for the Ohio State University football team from 2004...
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Reggie Bush
Reginald Alfred "Reggie" Bush II (born March 2, 1985) is a professional football player who plays for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. He has played running back/tailback, wide receiver, and punt returner. Bush played college...
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Matt Leinart
Matthew Stephen Leinart (born May 11, 1983 in Santa Ana, California) is an American football quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He played college football at Southern California, leading them to an AP national...
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Jason White
Jason White (born June 19, 1980) is a former quarterback for the University of Oklahoma football team from 1999 to 2004 (jersey number 18). White was raised in Tuttle, Oklahoma playing high-school football there with the Tuttle Tigers (jersey number...
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Carson Palmer
Carson Palmer (born December 27, 1979) is an American professional football quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Bengals first overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at the...
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Eric Crouch
Eric Eugene Crouch (born November 16, 1978 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American and Canadian football quarterback who played collegiately for the University of Nebraska.
In 2001, Crouch won the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the most outstanding...
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Chris Weinke
Christopher Jon Weinke (born July 31, 1972 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a free agent American football quarterback in the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played...
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Ron Dayne
Ron Dayne (born March 14, 1978 in Berlin Township, New Jersey) is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He is best known for holding the NCAA record for career rushing yards and winning the Heisman Trophy.
Dayne's...
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Ricky Williams
Errick Lynne Williams, Jr. (born May 21, 1977 in San Diego, California) is an American football running back for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints fifth overall in the 1999 NFL Draft. He...
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Charles Woodson
Charles Woodson (born on October 7, 1976 in Fremont, Ohio) is an American football cornerback for the Green Bay Packers. He played college football at the University of Michigan for the Michigan Wolverines. In 1997, Woodson led the Wolverines to a...
Danny Wuerffel
Daniel Carl Wuerffel (born May 27, 1974 in Pensacola, Florida) is a former American football player. He won the 1996 Heisman Trophy while playing quarterback at the University of Florida under coach Steve Spurrier. He later played for several...
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Eddie George
Edward Nathan George, Jr. (born September 24, 1973) is a former American football running back in the National Football League. He played for the Tennessee Titans both in Tennessee and in Houston when the franchise was known as the Houston Oilers,...
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Rashaan Salaam
Rashaan Iman Salaam (born October 8, 1974 in La Jolla, California) is a former professional American football player. Salaam won the 1994 Heisman Trophy as a running back for the University of Colorado, rushing for 2,055 yards by the end of the...
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Charlie Ward
Charlie Ward, Jr. (born October 12, 1970 in Thomasville, Georgia) is a three sports retired American professional NBA basketball player, college football Heisman Trophy winner, Davey O'Brien Award winner and a Major League Baseball draftee. By some...
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Gino Torretta
Gino Louis Torretta (born August 10, 1970 in Pinole, California) is a former Heisman Trophy winning football quarterback for several teams in the National Football League from 1993 to 1997.
Torretta is best known for winning the Heisman Trophy in...
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Desmond Howard
Desmond Kevin Howard (born May 15, 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former American football wide receiver, punt returner, and kickoff returner in the National Football League.
He played for the Washington Redskins (1992–1994), Jacksonville Jaguars ...
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Ty Detmer
Ty Hubert Detmer (born October 30, 1967 in San Marcos, Texas) is a former American football quarterback who starred at Brigham Young University. Detmer holds many records for his performance as BYU's quarterback and won the Heisman Trophy in 1990....
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Andre Ware
Andre Ware (born July 31, 1968 in Dickinson, Texas) won the 1989 Heisman Trophy as a quarterback for the University of Houston. In the 1990 NFL Draft, Ware was the first round selection (#7 overall) of the Detroit Lions.
Upon leaving Dickinson High...
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Barry Sanders
Barry David Sanders (born July 16, 1968(1968-07-16)) is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL. Sanders is best known for being one of the most prolific running backs in NFL...
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Tim Brown
Timothy Donell Brown (born July 22, 1966) is a retired American football wide receiver, who played college football for Notre Dame, where he won the Heisman Trophy, and in the National Football League (NFL). He spent sixteen years with the Los...
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Vinny Testaverde
Vincent Frank Testaverde (born November 13, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York) is a former American football quarterback who last played for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. Testaverde has previously played for the Tampa Bay...
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Bo Jackson
Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is an American retired athlete and a former multi-sport professional. Jackson played at the highest level of sports in the United States in both American football (NFL) and Baseball (MLB).
In...
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Doug Flutie
Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie (born October 23, 1962) is a retired American and Canadian football quarterback. Flutie played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and...
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Mike Rozier
Michael Rozier (born March 1, 1961 in Camden, New Jersey) is a former American collegiate and professional football running back. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. Mike and his wife, Rochelle, an attorney, reside in South Jersey and together they...
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Herschel Walker
Herschel Junior Walker (born March 3, 1962) is a former American football running back in the United States Football League for the New Jersey Generals and in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia...
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Marcus Allen
Marcus LeMarr Allen (born March 26, 1960 in San Diego, California) is a former American football player, and until recently affiliated with CBS as a game analyst. As a professional, Allen ran for 12,243 yards and caught 587 passes for 5,412 yards...
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George Rogers
George Washington Rogers (born December 8, 1958 in Duluth, Georgia) is a former American football player who achieved distinction in both the college and professional ranks as a running back.
Rogers was highly recruited out of high school, and...
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Charles White
Charles White (born January 22, 1958) is a former professional American football running back. He had a distinguished college career and later played in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns and the Los Angeles Rams.
After Graduating...
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Billy Sims
Billy Sims (born September 18, 1955 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former college football and NFL running back. He won the Heisman Award and the Davey O'Brien Memorial Trophy.
Sims grew up in St. Louis, but in the eighth grade he moved to Hooks,...
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Earl Campbell
Earl Christian Campbell (born March 29, 1955) is a former professional American Football running back.
His nickname is The Tyler Rose, a reference to his hometown of Tyler, Texas, which is known as the "Rose Capital of America" for its prominent...
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Tony Dorsett
Anthony "Tony" Drew Dorsett (born April 7, 1954 in Rochester, Pennsylvania) is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos.
Dorsett was a college football running back at the...
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Archie Griffin
Archie Mason Griffin (born August 21, 1954) is a former American football running back, and is college football's only two-time Heisman trophy winner. Griffin won four Big Ten Conference titles with the Ohio State Buckeyes and was the first player...
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John Cappelletti
John Cappelletti (born August 9, 1952) is a former professional American football running back for the NFL's Los Angeles Rams and the San Diego Chargers. Prior to his professional career, he attended the Pennsylvania State University, where he won...
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Johnny Rodgers
Johnny Steven Rodgers (born July 5, 1951 in Omaha, Nebraska) was an American college football superstar voted the University of Nebraska's "Player of the Century" and the winner of the 1972 Heisman Trophy.
Nicknamed "The Jet" for his rapid...
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Pat Sullivan
Patrick Joseph Sullivan (born January 18, 1950) is a former American football player, winner of the 1971 Heisman Trophy, and college football coach.
Sullivan is currently the head coach for Samford University. He was previously head coach at Texas...
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Jim Plunkett
James W. "Jim" Plunkett (born December 5, 1947 in San Jose, California) is a former American football quarterback who played collegiately for Stanford University, where he won the Heisman Trophy, and professionally for three National Football League...
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Steve Owens
Steve Everett Owens (born December 9, 1947 in Gore, Oklahoma), raised in Miami, Oklahoma, was the 1969 Heisman Trophy winner. Owens was the second Oklahoma Sooners player to win the Heisman Trophy, after Billy Vessels, and preceding Sam Bradford,...
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O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed "The Juice", is a retired American football player, football broadcaster, actor, and spokesman. He originally attained fame in sports as a running back at the collegiate and professional...
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Gary Beban
Gary Joseph Beban (born August 5, 1946 in Redwood City, California) is a former American football player. Son of an Italian-born mother and a first generation Croatian-American father, Beban won the 1967 Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award in...
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Steve Spurrier
Stephen "Steve" Orr Spurrier (born April 20, 1945) is a former college and professional football player, and is the current head coach of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks football team. He was a two-time All-American quarterback, and was...
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Mike Garrett
Michael Lockett Garrett (born April 12, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football player who won the 1965 Heisman Trophy as a tailback for the University of Southern California Trojans.
Garrett played...
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John Huarte
John Gregory Huarte (born April 6, 1944 in Anaheim, California) is a former professional American football quarterback and the 1964 Heisman Trophy winner.
Huarte played for the University of Notre Dame after graduating from Mater Dei High School in...
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Roger Staubach
Roger Thomas Staubach, also known as Roger the Dodger, The Jolly Roger, Captain Comeback, and Captain America, (born February 5, 1942, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a businessman, Heisman Trophy winner and Hall of Fame quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys...
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Terry Baker
For the Canadian football player of the same name see Terry Baker (Canadian football).
Terry Wayne Baker (born May 5, 1941) is a former quarterback for the Oregon State University football team. He played for them through the 1960-1962 seasons. He...
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Ernie Davis
Ernest Davis (December 14, 1939 – May 18, 1963) was an American football running back and the first African-American athlete to win the Heisman Trophy. Wearing number 44, Davis competed collegiately for Syracuse University before being drafted by...
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Joe Bellino
Joseph Michael Bellino (born March 13, 1938 in Winchester, Massachusetts) is a former American football halfback in the American Football League for the Boston Patriots. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1960.
Bellino attended the town's public schools,...
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Billy Cannon
William Abb "Billy" Cannon (born August 2, 1937) is an All-American, 1959 Heisman Trophy winner and 2008 inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and one of the American Football League's most...
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Pete Dawkins
Peter Miller Dawkins (b. March 8, 1938, Royal Oak, Michigan) is a former Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes Scholar, U.S. Army Brigadier General, and Republican candidate for Senate. He is the former vice chairman of Citigroup Private Bank.
At age 11, he...
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John David Crow
John David Crow (born July 8, 1935, in Marion in Union Parish, Louisiana) was the Heisman Trophy winner and running back from Texas A&M; University in 1957. He was not one of the "Junction Boys," but played for Bear Bryant at Texas A&M; and later...
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Paul Hornung
Paul Vernon Hornung (born December 23, 1935 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a former professional football player, playing for the Green Bay Packers from 1957-66. Hornung, one of the most versatile players ever to play the game, was Halfback,...
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Howard "Hopalong" Cassady
Howard Albert "Hopalong" Cassady (born March 2, 1934 in Columbus, Ohio) is a former college and professional American football running back. He was the Heisman Trophy winner of 1955 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979....
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Alan Ameche
Lino Dante "Alan" Ameche (March 1, 1933 – August 8, 1988), nicknamed "The Horse", was an American football player who played six seasons with the Baltimore Colts in the National Football League after winning the Heisman Trophy in college at the...
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Johnny Lattner
John Joseph Lattner (born October 24, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) was a halfback for the University of Notre Dame where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1953, and won the Maxwell Award twice, in 1952 and 1953.
In 1954, Lattner was drafted in the first...
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Billy Vessels
Billy Vessels (March 22, 1931, Cleveland, Oklahoma - November 17, 2001, Coral Gables, Florida) was an outstanding college football player and winner of the 1952 Heisman trophy, as well as a professional football player with the National Football...
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Dick Kazmaier
Richard Kazmaier (born November 23, 1930 in Toledo, Ohio) was an American football player for Princeton University from 1947 through 1951 and winner of the 1951 Heisman Trophy. As a running back, kicker and quarterback, he ended his career third all...
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Vic Janowicz
Victor Felix "Vic" Janowicz (February 26, 1930 – February 27, 1996) was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Ohio State University and was drafted in the seventh...
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Leon Hart
Leon Joseph Hart (November 2, 1928–September 24, 2002) was an American football tight end and defensive end. He was raised in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
He won the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award whilst at the University of...
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Doak Walker
Ewell Doak Walker, Jr. (January 1, 1927 – September 27, 1998) was an American football player who is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was a teammate of Bobby Layne in high school and the NFL.
He was born in Dallas, Texas and attended...
