October 9, 2024 • 17 mins
The Heisman Memorial Trophy, college football's most prestigious individual award, is named after legendary coach John William Heisman. Listen now to hear the story of the man behind college football's most iconic award, how he's responsible for the most lopsided victory in college football history, and so much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Hey, folks, it's Will Gatchell here and you're listening to
Sports Dot m P. Three. I'm shaking things up from
our normal format of it today and diving right into
the story. I'll be sharing a single thread, one storyline
of an infinite number about the man for whom the
Heisman Trophy, college football's most prestigious award is named after.
(00:55):
So sit back, relax, and enjoy. Sports are constantly evolving.
Athletes are getting faster, stronger, and bigger while also becoming
(01:15):
more skilled. Meanwhile, more coaches and teams across leagues are
willingly adopting or at least tinkering with radical strategies, scouting systems,
and play styles. There's also modern analytics, cutting edge scouting
and drafting ideologies, and the fact that the increasing skill
level of athletes actually lets coaches try more unorthodox tactics
(01:36):
that would not have been possible in the past. Yeah, yeah,
I know sports are always changing, but there is something
that appears to be changing more now than in the past,
and that's the sports leagues themselves. The NBA added a
mid season tournament and changed the playoffs to include a
play in tournament. The NFL altered kickoffs and broke up
(01:56):
that beautifully proportional sixteen game season by adding an extra game.
The PGA Tour has been beefing with the upstart Live Tour,
Formula One is undergoing unprecedented car regulation changes meant to
increase competition, and the UEFA Champions League is in the
first season of its completely new thirty sixteen format. You
(02:18):
get the idea, and yet American college football might just
be undergoing the biggest transformation of them all. There's the
groundbreaking NIL deal, short for Name, Image and Likeness, which
essentially fundamentally altered college football forever and sports as we
know it. Instead of under the table deals featuring bags
of cash or, in Rick Patino's case, actually never mind,
(02:42):
college athletes are now able to monetize their likeness to
secure deals with sponsors. The NIL deal addresses two long
standing critiques of the NCAA, a lack of monetization for
athletes that are amateurs and shady illegal deals to sign
star recruits. The NIL deal isn't the only change. The
College Football Transfer Portal has removed their requirement for a
(03:05):
transfer to sit out a year if they went from
one D one school to another, meaning there's more money
all around, more talented players swapping teams at higher rates,
and a whole lot of chaos. I couldn't find a
fitting analogy to compare the NIL deal to in other sports,
because the entire landscape of college football was basically flipped
(03:25):
on its head and everyone is so scrambling to figure
out just how this new norm will work. It's basically
the Wild West of sports. Case in point, undefeated UNLV's
quarterback abruptly quitting the team and announcing he was never
paid any of the one hundred thousand dollars promised to
him by the team as part of an NIL sponsorship deal.
That headline is bizarre on its own, but would be
(03:47):
incomprehensible to college football fans even just a few years ago.
And that's only part of the equation. There's also conference realignment,
the lingering effects of COVID giving students an extra year
of eligibility. Oh yeah, and the twelve team playoff format.
The days of arguing over which four teams should make
(04:08):
college football's end of season four team knockout style championship
tournament are finally over. After years of debate over the
flaws of the four team college football playoffs set up
which first began in twenty fourteen. This year we will
see the first championship bracket to feature twelve teams. Under
the old system, an undefeated non major conference team like
(04:30):
Boise State might not have even been ranked in the
top four and get a shot at taking on behemoths
like Bama, Clemson, or Ohio State in the playoffs. To
quote the late and legendary mcmiller. However, it ain't two
thousand and nine no more. It's twenty twenty four and
this twelve team format means that this year is Boise
State Broncos team with five wins and one loss, led
(04:53):
by the current Heisman Trophy favorite Ashton genty could still
be ranked in the top twelve and make the playoffs
even with the loss the Heisman. By the way, the
top individual award in college football is given to the
best player of the year, as voted on by a
group of more than eight hundred and fifty media representatives
from across the country. It's essentially the most Valuable player
(05:15):
award for college football. Obviously, any votes for this type
of award will always be heated. I mean, look at
the MVP award in other leagues. Should it go to
the best player on the best team that year, or
the player that was most instrumental to their team's success
aka the most valuable? Or what about the player that
had the most impressive stats regardless of how their team played.
(05:38):
When you factor in the intensity of college football rivalries,
the absurd gap and talent between athletes on the field,
meaning the gap in scale between the best player in
college football and the worst player in college football is
a lot bigger than the gap between the best and
worst players in the NFL, leading to absurd stat lines
and the hundreds of players across more than one hundred
(05:58):
and twenty Division one foot ball teams in the country
competing for that single award, and you can begin to
understand why joining the exclusive Heisman winners club means so
much to the few who get in. The trophy itself,
one of the most recognizable in sports depicts a helmeted
player in motion, holding a ball in one arm, the
other outstretched warding off any would be tacklers. And yet
(06:21):
the man for whom the award, which is technically called
the Heisman Memorial Trophy is named after, remains less recognizable,
and his glory days took place long before college quarterbacks
were slinging Starbucks sponsored touchdowns and fighting for one of
twelve playoff spots. There are dozens of sayings that revolves
(06:47):
something around playing to have fun, playing to win, or
how winning is fun and that's why you should play.
You might even remember a former coach saying some version
of one of these phrases at some point in your life.
A few coaches end up more on the fun side,
but most end up in the winning camp. Now, a
coach that wants to win isn't controversial, but sometimes coaches
(07:11):
win by a bit too much, which doesn't make the
other team's parents very happy. Here's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
A highly successful girls high school basketball coach is now
benched after critics say he ran up the score, ending
with a humiliating one hundred and fifty nine point margin
of victory over the outmatch deposing team.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And here's one more, just for fun.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
High school football coach in Nasau County has become the
first to be suspended for running up the score.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Spoiler alert, this phenomenon isn't anything new. In fact, the
most lopsided score in college football history happened all the
way back in nineteen sixteen and makes that one hundred
and sixty one to two basketball score feel kind of
close by comparison. The Georgia Tech Engineers based off against
the Cumberland College Bulldogs on Grant Field in Atlanta. This
(08:04):
wasn't a typical game by any stretch of the imagination,
and it almost never happened. Cumberland had discontinued its football
program that year, but the team had already committed to
playing the game versus Georgia Tech before the program was ended,
and Cumberland would have to pay a three thousand dollars
fine if it didn't play the game. That's approximately eighty
(08:27):
six thousand dollars in today's currency. And this is where
things get weird. John William Heisman, Georgia Tech's head coach
at the time, paid the opposing team five hundred dollars
or roughly fourteen thousand dollars in today's terms to cover
their travel expenses and ensure they arrived for the game.
(08:48):
And no, I didn't misspeak. I am talking about Georgia
Tech's coach paying the other team to come to the
game and arrived they did. Cumberland filled with a roster
of fraternity Bros, put together by the team's student manager,
would face off against Georgia Tech, a team that was
(09:08):
in the midst of some of the greatest years in
its football program's history, led by one of the game's
greatest innovators ever, head coach John Heisman. Once the first
whistle blew and the game began, it immediately became clear
to anyone in attendance that there would be no battle
from the Bros. They were going to get massacred by
(09:29):
Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech entered the locker room at halftime,
winning the game one hundred and twenty six to zero,
and John Heisman walked in to give his team a speech.
People might assume that there's not much more to say
when your team's up one hundred twenty six to zero
(09:52):
at halftime in a football game, but those people were
not John. Instead, he said, quote, you never know what
those Cumberland players have up their sleeve, So in the
second half, go out and hit them clean and hit
them hard. Do not let up end quote that's right.
I am talking about his speech to the team at
(10:14):
halftime up one hundred and twenty six to zero. If
they had anything up those sleeves. I think that they
would have shown it. The final score read Georgia Tech
two hundred and twenty two Cumberland University zero. Well, technically,
Georgia Tech did let up a little bit since they
only scored ninety four points in the second half compared
(10:35):
to the one hundred and twenty six they scored in
the first. They didn't show any mercy to their opponents,
doing just as their coach told them. One Cumberland players said, quote,
one of our best plays of the game was when
one of our players got the ball on a pitch
out and he only lost ten yards end quote. And
the guy wasn't speaking in hyperbole. Here's a few stats
(10:56):
from the game. Cumberland turned the ball over on fifteen
of their forty five plays from scrimmage. Nine of those
turnovers were fumbles and the other six were interceptions. George
Murphy was responsible for six of those turnovers, with four
fumbles and two interceptions himself. There were also five pick
sixes meaning interceptions returned for touchdowns, and two fumble returns
(11:20):
for touchdowns. Plus, Georgia Tech ran twenty eight offensive plays
and scored touchdowns on eighteen of them. It also featured
one of the most bizarre plays in college football history.
After scoring and taking a one hundred and five to
zero lead, Georgia Tech's kicker, Jim Prios, kicked off to
(11:41):
Cumberland University. The player set to receive the kick then
fumbled the ball during the kickoff, and it got picked
up by a Georgia Tech player for a touchdown. But
it wasn't just any player. It was Jim Prios. Yes,
the guy that kicked the ball, ran all all the
way down the field, recovered the fumble and scored a
(12:03):
touchdown on the same play. Okay, last thing, I promise.
Georgia Tech also played the entire game without throwing a
single pass or running a single play that received negative yards.
What speaking of what you might be thinking, what motivated
John to bring forth this beatdown of biblical proportions onto
Cumberland University? Well, the answer is baseball. Yeah, that's right, baseball,
(12:30):
the one with the bat. John Heisman was also the
head coach of Georgia Tech's baseball team, and in the
spring of nineteen fifteen, they faced off against Cumberland University
in a weird reversal of score lines minus an extra
(12:51):
zero Georgia Tech was the one to not score this time,
losing the game twenty two to zero. It's hard not
to immediately draw some sort of connection between the twenty
two to zero and two hundred and twenty two to
zero score lines. And I mean, look, if I lost
to a team twenty two to zero in baseball and
was able to play that team in a different sport
(13:12):
where that roster is filled with a bunch of frat bros,
I can guarantee you that I would run it up
to two hundred twenty two to zero, not two hundred
twenty one, not two hundred twenty three, two hundred twenty
two to zero. Before you start calling John Heisman petty,
there's one other aspect worth mentioning. He thought that Cumberland's
(13:33):
baseball team had done basically the polar opposite of recruiting
frat bros to fill a roster, and had hired professional
baseball players to join their roster, and so because of that,
he wanted to crush the school extra badly when he
had the opportunity to face them for revenge a year
later for John Heisman being the coach of the most
lopsided win in college football history is a mere footnote
(13:56):
on his list of accomplishments. A prolific writer and pioneer,
Heisman was constantly trying to push football forward, and by
the time he was whooping Cumberland, he had already achieved
one of his most defining achievements, getting the forward pass
legalized in nineteen oh six, even though he wouldn't have
to use it when he crushed Cumberland. Despite his tremendous
(14:16):
impact on how the sport was played, countless innovative strategies,
and mentoring dozens of future legends, it wasn't until well
after he retired from coaching that Heisman would create the
thing that would later bear his name. Appointed as the
(14:37):
first athletic director for the Downtown Athletic Club of New
York City in nineteen thirty, officers of the group urged
Heisman to establish a structure and voting system that could
determine the best collegiate football player in the country. Ironically,
he was actually initially opposed to the idea because it
focused on the accomplishments of an individual over a team. Eventually,
(14:59):
Heisman changed his min and created the Downtown Athletic Club Award.
Starting in nineteen thirty five. Only a year later, John W.
Heisman passed away from pneumonia, and club officers unanimously voted
to rename the award to the Heisman Memorial Trophy in
his honor. One player wins the Heisman Trophy every year,
and only one player has won it more than once.
(15:21):
I can point out that the award named after the
man largely responsible for making football one of America's favorite pastimes,
a man who pursued winning and team success above all
else in multiple sports, doesn't really fit with his legacy.
I could bring up the Heisman Curse, the superstitious belief
that winning the Heisman Trophy makes that winner's team more
(15:44):
than likely to win a championship, but that doesn't seem fair.
The award is just one of John Heisman's many immense
contributions to college football. John was a pioneer that always
looked forward, willingly embraced change, and sought out what's next.
So it's hard to imagine that he himself wouldn't be
happy to see just how far the Heisman Trophy has
(16:06):
come since nineteen thirty five. It has a legacy of
its own, one that might not be defined by winning
in a team success point of view, but one that's
defined and redefined each and every year by every new winner,
every new name, and that's a pretty damn cool legacy.
(16:53):
Thank you all for listening to this episode of Sports
dot MP three. I'm your host, Will Gatchel, and I
will be back again for this season in one season
finale of Sports dot MP three in two weeks time.
Please make sure to hit the like or subscribe button,
leave a comment and share with friends if you enjoyed it,
have an amazing two weeks and see us soon. Peace,
Hey, folks, it's Will Gatchell here and you're listening to
Sports Dot m P. Three. I'm shaking things up from
our normal format of it today and diving right into
the story. I'll be sharing a single thread, one storyline
of an infinite number about the man for whom the
Heisman Trophy, college football's most prestigious award is named after.
(00:55):
So sit back, relax, and enjoy. Sports are constantly evolving.
Athletes are getting faster, stronger, and bigger while also becoming
(01:15):
more skilled. Meanwhile, more coaches and teams across leagues are
willingly adopting or at least tinkering with radical strategies, scouting systems,
and play styles. There's also modern analytics, cutting edge scouting
and drafting ideologies, and the fact that the increasing skill
level of athletes actually lets coaches try more unorthodox tactics
(01:36):
that would not have been possible in the past. Yeah, yeah,
I know sports are always changing, but there is something
that appears to be changing more now than in the past,
and that's the sports leagues themselves. The NBA added a
mid season tournament and changed the playoffs to include a
play in tournament. The NFL altered kickoffs and broke up
(01:56):
that beautifully proportional sixteen game season by adding an extra game.
The PGA Tour has been beefing with the upstart Live Tour,
Formula One is undergoing unprecedented car regulation changes meant to
increase competition, and the UEFA Champions League is in the
first season of its completely new thirty sixteen format. You
(02:18):
get the idea, and yet American college football might just
be undergoing the biggest transformation of them all. There's the
groundbreaking NIL deal, short for Name, Image and Likeness, which
essentially fundamentally altered college football forever and sports as we
know it. Instead of under the table deals featuring bags
of cash or, in Rick Patino's case, actually never mind,
(02:42):
college athletes are now able to monetize their likeness to
secure deals with sponsors. The NIL deal addresses two long
standing critiques of the NCAA, a lack of monetization for
athletes that are amateurs and shady illegal deals to sign
star recruits. The NIL deal isn't the only change. The
College Football Transfer Portal has removed their requirement for a
(03:05):
transfer to sit out a year if they went from
one D one school to another, meaning there's more money
all around, more talented players swapping teams at higher rates,
and a whole lot of chaos. I couldn't find a
fitting analogy to compare the NIL deal to in other sports,
because the entire landscape of college football was basically flipped
(03:25):
on its head and everyone is so scrambling to figure
out just how this new norm will work. It's basically
the Wild West of sports. Case in point, undefeated UNLV's
quarterback abruptly quitting the team and announcing he was never
paid any of the one hundred thousand dollars promised to
him by the team as part of an NIL sponsorship deal.
That headline is bizarre on its own, but would be
(03:47):
incomprehensible to college football fans even just a few years ago.
And that's only part of the equation. There's also conference realignment,
the lingering effects of COVID giving students an extra year
of eligibility. Oh yeah, and the twelve team playoff format.
The days of arguing over which four teams should make
(04:08):
college football's end of season four team knockout style championship
tournament are finally over. After years of debate over the
flaws of the four team college football playoffs set up
which first began in twenty fourteen. This year we will
see the first championship bracket to feature twelve teams. Under
the old system, an undefeated non major conference team like
(04:30):
Boise State might not have even been ranked in the
top four and get a shot at taking on behemoths
like Bama, Clemson, or Ohio State in the playoffs. To
quote the late and legendary mcmiller. However, it ain't two
thousand and nine no more. It's twenty twenty four and
this twelve team format means that this year is Boise
State Broncos team with five wins and one loss, led
(04:53):
by the current Heisman Trophy favorite Ashton genty could still
be ranked in the top twelve and make the playoffs
even with the loss the Heisman. By the way, the
top individual award in college football is given to the
best player of the year, as voted on by a
group of more than eight hundred and fifty media representatives
from across the country. It's essentially the most Valuable player
(05:15):
award for college football. Obviously, any votes for this type
of award will always be heated. I mean, look at
the MVP award in other leagues. Should it go to
the best player on the best team that year, or
the player that was most instrumental to their team's success
aka the most valuable? Or what about the player that
had the most impressive stats regardless of how their team played.
(05:38):
When you factor in the intensity of college football rivalries,
the absurd gap and talent between athletes on the field,
meaning the gap in scale between the best player in
college football and the worst player in college football is
a lot bigger than the gap between the best and
worst players in the NFL, leading to absurd stat lines
and the hundreds of players across more than one hundred
(05:58):
and twenty Division one foot ball teams in the country
competing for that single award, and you can begin to
understand why joining the exclusive Heisman winners club means so
much to the few who get in. The trophy itself,
one of the most recognizable in sports depicts a helmeted
player in motion, holding a ball in one arm, the
other outstretched warding off any would be tacklers. And yet
(06:21):
the man for whom the award, which is technically called
the Heisman Memorial Trophy is named after, remains less recognizable,
and his glory days took place long before college quarterbacks
were slinging Starbucks sponsored touchdowns and fighting for one of
twelve playoff spots. There are dozens of sayings that revolves
(06:47):
something around playing to have fun, playing to win, or
how winning is fun and that's why you should play.
You might even remember a former coach saying some version
of one of these phrases at some point in your life.
A few coaches end up more on the fun side,
but most end up in the winning camp. Now, a
coach that wants to win isn't controversial, but sometimes coaches
(07:11):
win by a bit too much, which doesn't make the
other team's parents very happy. Here's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
A highly successful girls high school basketball coach is now
benched after critics say he ran up the score, ending
with a humiliating one hundred and fifty nine point margin
of victory over the outmatch deposing team.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And here's one more, just for fun.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
High school football coach in Nasau County has become the
first to be suspended for running up the score.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Spoiler alert, this phenomenon isn't anything new. In fact, the
most lopsided score in college football history happened all the
way back in nineteen sixteen and makes that one hundred
and sixty one to two basketball score feel kind of
close by comparison. The Georgia Tech Engineers based off against
the Cumberland College Bulldogs on Grant Field in Atlanta. This
(08:04):
wasn't a typical game by any stretch of the imagination,
and it almost never happened. Cumberland had discontinued its football
program that year, but the team had already committed to
playing the game versus Georgia Tech before the program was ended,
and Cumberland would have to pay a three thousand dollars
fine if it didn't play the game. That's approximately eighty
(08:27):
six thousand dollars in today's currency. And this is where
things get weird. John William Heisman, Georgia Tech's head coach
at the time, paid the opposing team five hundred dollars
or roughly fourteen thousand dollars in today's terms to cover
their travel expenses and ensure they arrived for the game.
(08:48):
And no, I didn't misspeak. I am talking about Georgia
Tech's coach paying the other team to come to the
game and arrived they did. Cumberland filled with a roster
of fraternity Bros, put together by the team's student manager,
would face off against Georgia Tech, a team that was
(09:08):
in the midst of some of the greatest years in
its football program's history, led by one of the game's
greatest innovators ever, head coach John Heisman. Once the first
whistle blew and the game began, it immediately became clear
to anyone in attendance that there would be no battle
from the Bros. They were going to get massacred by
(09:29):
Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech entered the locker room at halftime,
winning the game one hundred and twenty six to zero,
and John Heisman walked in to give his team a speech.
People might assume that there's not much more to say
when your team's up one hundred twenty six to zero
(09:52):
at halftime in a football game, but those people were
not John. Instead, he said, quote, you never know what
those Cumberland players have up their sleeve, So in the
second half, go out and hit them clean and hit
them hard. Do not let up end quote that's right.
I am talking about his speech to the team at
(10:14):
halftime up one hundred and twenty six to zero. If
they had anything up those sleeves. I think that they
would have shown it. The final score read Georgia Tech
two hundred and twenty two Cumberland University zero. Well, technically,
Georgia Tech did let up a little bit since they
only scored ninety four points in the second half compared
(10:35):
to the one hundred and twenty six they scored in
the first. They didn't show any mercy to their opponents,
doing just as their coach told them. One Cumberland players said, quote,
one of our best plays of the game was when
one of our players got the ball on a pitch
out and he only lost ten yards end quote. And
the guy wasn't speaking in hyperbole. Here's a few stats
(10:56):
from the game. Cumberland turned the ball over on fifteen
of their forty five plays from scrimmage. Nine of those
turnovers were fumbles and the other six were interceptions. George
Murphy was responsible for six of those turnovers, with four
fumbles and two interceptions himself. There were also five pick
sixes meaning interceptions returned for touchdowns, and two fumble returns
(11:20):
for touchdowns. Plus, Georgia Tech ran twenty eight offensive plays
and scored touchdowns on eighteen of them. It also featured
one of the most bizarre plays in college football history.
After scoring and taking a one hundred and five to
zero lead, Georgia Tech's kicker, Jim Prios, kicked off to
(11:41):
Cumberland University. The player set to receive the kick then
fumbled the ball during the kickoff, and it got picked
up by a Georgia Tech player for a touchdown. But
it wasn't just any player. It was Jim Prios. Yes,
the guy that kicked the ball, ran all all the
way down the field, recovered the fumble and scored a
(12:03):
touchdown on the same play. Okay, last thing, I promise.
Georgia Tech also played the entire game without throwing a
single pass or running a single play that received negative yards.
What speaking of what you might be thinking, what motivated
John to bring forth this beatdown of biblical proportions onto
Cumberland University? Well, the answer is baseball. Yeah, that's right, baseball,
(12:30):
the one with the bat. John Heisman was also the
head coach of Georgia Tech's baseball team, and in the
spring of nineteen fifteen, they faced off against Cumberland University
in a weird reversal of score lines minus an extra
(12:51):
zero Georgia Tech was the one to not score this time,
losing the game twenty two to zero. It's hard not
to immediately draw some sort of connection between the twenty
two to zero and two hundred and twenty two to
zero score lines. And I mean, look, if I lost
to a team twenty two to zero in baseball and
was able to play that team in a different sport
(13:12):
where that roster is filled with a bunch of frat bros,
I can guarantee you that I would run it up
to two hundred twenty two to zero, not two hundred
twenty one, not two hundred twenty three, two hundred twenty
two to zero. Before you start calling John Heisman petty,
there's one other aspect worth mentioning. He thought that Cumberland's
(13:33):
baseball team had done basically the polar opposite of recruiting
frat bros to fill a roster, and had hired professional
baseball players to join their roster, and so because of that,
he wanted to crush the school extra badly when he
had the opportunity to face them for revenge a year
later for John Heisman being the coach of the most
lopsided win in college football history is a mere footnote
(13:56):
on his list of accomplishments. A prolific writer and pioneer,
Heisman was constantly trying to push football forward, and by
the time he was whooping Cumberland, he had already achieved
one of his most defining achievements, getting the forward pass
legalized in nineteen oh six, even though he wouldn't have
to use it when he crushed Cumberland. Despite his tremendous
(14:16):
impact on how the sport was played, countless innovative strategies,
and mentoring dozens of future legends, it wasn't until well
after he retired from coaching that Heisman would create the
thing that would later bear his name. Appointed as the
(14:37):
first athletic director for the Downtown Athletic Club of New
York City in nineteen thirty, officers of the group urged
Heisman to establish a structure and voting system that could
determine the best collegiate football player in the country. Ironically,
he was actually initially opposed to the idea because it
focused on the accomplishments of an individual over a team. Eventually,
(14:59):
Heisman changed his min and created the Downtown Athletic Club Award.
Starting in nineteen thirty five. Only a year later, John W.
Heisman passed away from pneumonia, and club officers unanimously voted
to rename the award to the Heisman Memorial Trophy in
his honor. One player wins the Heisman Trophy every year,
and only one player has won it more than once.
(15:21):
I can point out that the award named after the
man largely responsible for making football one of America's favorite pastimes,
a man who pursued winning and team success above all
else in multiple sports, doesn't really fit with his legacy.
I could bring up the Heisman Curse, the superstitious belief
that winning the Heisman Trophy makes that winner's team more
(15:44):
than likely to win a championship, but that doesn't seem fair.
The award is just one of John Heisman's many immense
contributions to college football. John was a pioneer that always
looked forward, willingly embraced change, and sought out what's next.
So it's hard to imagine that he himself wouldn't be
happy to see just how far the Heisman Trophy has
(16:06):
come since nineteen thirty five. It has a legacy of
its own, one that might not be defined by winning
in a team success point of view, but one that's
defined and redefined each and every year by every new winner,
every new name, and that's a pretty damn cool legacy.
(16:53):
Thank you all for listening to this episode of Sports
dot MP three. I'm your host, Will Gatchel, and I
will be back again for this season in one season
finale of Sports dot MP three in two weeks time.
Please make sure to hit the like or subscribe button,
leave a comment and share with friends if you enjoyed it,
have an amazing two weeks and see us soon. Peace,
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