Heisman Trophy

The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award, considered the most prestigious award in American college football, is given annually to the top player in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The award was presented by the Downtown Athletic Club in Manhattan, New York, a privately owned recreation facility near the site of the former World Trade Center, until the Club was forced to close its doors in 2002 due to financial troubles resulting in large part from the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York. The award ceremony is now hosted by the Yale Club in Manhattan, and is presented independently from the annual College Football Awards (where all other related awards are presented). The trophy is named after the college coach and DAC Director of Athletics John W. Heisman and was first presented in 1935.

External links

• The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award website
• The Heisman Projection: Predicting the winner through "exit polls" of Heisman voters