They watched their husbands win the Heisman – then lost them to CTE
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The Washington Post ^
| December 8, 2023 | Kent Babb
Behind the doors of sports’ most exclusive and secretive club is the sight of oil paintings and hardwood, the smell of cigar smoke baked into cushions and walls, the feel of familiar faces and the shuddering reminder of hangovers past.“'The Heisman flu,'” says Barbara Cassady, whose late husband, Howard “Hopalong” Cassady, was
granted lifetime entry into the club in 1955, when the Ohio State halfback was awarded the Heisman Trophy, the annual honor for college football’s most outstanding player. From then on, one weekend every December was a massive reunion with a guest list filled with sports’ upper crust —...
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Heisman Winner, Notre Dame Legend Johnny Lujack Dies at 98
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ESPN ^
| Jul 25, 2023 | Adam Rittenberg
Johnny Lujack, the 1947 Heisman Trophy winner at Notre Dame who became an All-Pro quarterback with the Chicago Bears, died in Florida on Tuesday after a brief illness. He
was 98. Lujack's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Amy Schiller, who said he had entered hospice care recently after having been in good health until a couple of weeks ago. Lujack led Notre Dame to three national championships in a career interrupted by two years of Navy service during World War II. He earned unanimous All-America honors in both 1946 and 1947, as Notre Dame did not lose a game,...
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Johnny Lujack, 1947 Heisman winner who led Notre Dame to 3 national titles, dies at the age of 98
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AP ^
| 7/25/23 | Eric Olson
Johnny Lujack was one of the faces of Notre Dame’s golden age, the second of three Irish players to win the Heisman Trophy in the 1940s and the quarterback of three national championship teams. “Even
by Notre Dame standards, you always felt he was larger than life,” said John Heisler, who has written a dozen books on the history of the storied program where he was once was an associate athletic director. “Part of that comes with winning the Heisman Trophy, part comes from being a quarterback at Notre Dame and part comes from the sheer force of his personality.”...
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Alabama's Bryce Young wins 2021 Heisman Trophy
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Yahoo News ^
| 12-11-2021 | Nick Blomberg
Alabama has another Heisman Trophy winner. Crimson
Tide QB Bryce Young was unsurprisingly named the 2021 Heisman winner on Saturday. Young entered the ceremony as a massive favorite after his performance in the SEC championship game. He was a finalist for the award along with Pitt QB Kenny Pickett, Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud and Michigan DL Aidan Hutchinson. Hutchinson finished second ahead of Pickett and Stroud. Young got 684 first-place votes had more than eight times as many votes for the top spot than Hutchinson. Young is 314-of-462 passing for 4,322 yards and 43 TDs with just four interceptions...
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Four Heisman Trophy Finalists Named (Winner To Be Announced Saturday, 12-11-2021)
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Sports Illustrated ^
| 12p-7-2021 | Donnie Druin
After a fantastic regular season of college football, these four players were named as finalists for the Heisman Trophy, set to be handed out on Saturday, Dec. 11.On Monday, four finalists for the Heisman Trophy were announced on ESPN and revealed by 2011 Heisman winner Robert Griffin III: Michigan defensive end Aidan
Hutchinson, Pittsburgh quarterback Kenny Pickett, Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud and Alabama quarterback Bryce Young. This is the third year in a row there have been four Heisman finalists. The Heisman Trophy Trust announced recently it will now invite four finalists annually to New York City for the...
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Alabama WR DeVonta Smith Wins 2020 Heisman Trophy
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Sports Illustrated ^
| 1-5-2021 | Ben Pickman
Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith was named the 2020 Heisman Trophy winner on Tuesday night, becoming the first wideout since 1991 to earn the sport's top individual honor. This
season, Smith led the nation in receptions (105), receiving yards (1,641) and receiving touchdowns (20), having most recently taken home the Offensive Most Valuable Player award in Alabama's dominant Rose Bowl win over Notre Dame. The 22-year-old wideout has also had 100 or more receiving yards eight times this season, the most in Crimson Tide history. “He’s probably one of the most selfless guys I’ve ever had the opportunity to coach,”...
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ESPN Announces The 4 Finalists For The 2020 Heisman Trophy (Jones, Smith, Lawrence, Trask)
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The Spun ^
| 12-24-2020 | Andrew Holleran
ESPN announced on Christmas Eve the four finalists for the most-prestigious individual award in college football. There
are four finalists for the 2020 Heisman Trophy. ESPN announced the four finalists shortly after 7:30 p.m. E.T.Alabama quarterback Mac Jones Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence Florida quarterback Kyle TraskSmith is considered to be the favorite for the award. The Alabama Crimson Tide wide receiver has been leading most of the straw polls heading into bowl season. The four Heisman finalists are Mac Jones, DeVonta Smith, Trevor Lawrence and Kyle Trask — Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) December 25, 2020...
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2020 Heisman Watch (Final Rankings)
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Wolf Sports.com ^
| 12-21-2020 | Kevin Davis
In one of the craziest, uneven, and difficult-to-judge Heisman Trophy races in history, which player should take home the prestigious award? 1.
DeVonta Smith | Alabama WR | Senior | Last week: 1As the arguable favorite heading into conference championship weekend, DeVonta Smith only helped his Heisman candidacy by racking up 15 receptions for 184 yards and two touchdowns in Alabama’s win over Florida. Smith has had highlight-reel plays all season, and he’s been legitimately uncoverable. The senior receiver—who easily could have left for the NFL after last season yet stayed in school and got even better—is the Heisman Trophy...
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Paul Hornung, Notre Dame Heisman winner and star of Lombardi's Packers dynasty, dies at age 84
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Yahoo ^
| November 13, 2020 | Frank Schwab
Vince Lombardi was hard on everyone. But
he loved Paul Hornung. Spend enough time listening to the old Green Bay Packers from the 1960s and they will share that if Lombardi had a favorite, it was his halfback from Notre Dame. Lombardi called Hornung "the best all-around back ever to play football.” Hornung died at age 84 after a battle with dementia. The Louisville Sports Commission announced Hornung’s death.
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Alabama QB Mac Jones Takes No. 1 Spot In Heisman Race Over Trevor Lawrence
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TDA Magazine ^
| 10-31-2020 | Stephen M. Smith
This yearÂ’s race for the Heisman Memorial Trophy is heating up. Regardless
of most people feeling like the award is for Trevor Lawrence, the 2018 national champion and quarterback of Clemson has serious competition. Mac Jones of the University of Alabama is not playing around, and the redshirt junior from Florida is having an incredible season. He is pacing an Alabama offense that leads the Southeastern Conference in every major category, while ranking in the top-five nationally for every category. After proving to coaches, teammates, fans and media pundits that he could take over for an injured Tua Tagovailoa in...
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Heisman winner's speech leads to over $260,000 in donations for families in poverty
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CNN ^
| December 16, 2019 LSU's Joe Burrow wins the Heisman Trophy | Elizabeth Wolfe and Saeed Ahmed, CNN
As he accepted the coveted Heisman trophy, LSU quarterback Joe Burrow addressed the children in his hometown of Athens, Ohio, where thousands of residents live in poverty. "Coming
from southeast Ohio, it's a very impoverished area and the poverty rate is almost two times the national average," he said in his acceptance speech Saturday. "There's so many people there that don't have a lot. And I'm up here for all those kids in Athens and Athens County that go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school. You guys can be up here, too."
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DeepClips for Dec 15: Giuliani evidence; Schiff shouted down; Troop withdrawal; Burrows' Heisman speech
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DeepClips ^
Clips tagged #Swamp Giuliani tweets evidence of 2016 corruption, supporting Trump's obligation to ask for US-Ukraine investigationIn my next thread of tweets I will be sharing some of the evidence I have garnered through hundreds of hours of research. Turn
notifications on & stay tuned. In my next thread of … Graham invites Giuliani to testify about recent Ukraine tripSen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is inviting Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his recent trip to Ukraine. "If [ @RudyGiuliani ] … Schiff Refuses To Say He Was Wrong About FBI’s Surveillance Of...
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Army-Navy uniforms: Navy pays tribute to Heisman winners; Army honors 1st Cavalry Division
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Washington Post ^
| December 5, 2019 | Jacob Bogage
For this year’s Army-Navy game, the Midshipmen have a new — err, old — look, and the Black Knights will honor a contingent of soldiers that attacked from the air. No.
24 Navy will wear uniforms inspired by the teams of the 1960s and a pair of Heisman trophy winners: halfback Joe Bellino and quarterback Roger Staubach. The Mids will wear blue tops with gold shoulder stripes and gold numbers, along with plain gold breeches. The tops feature the American Athletic Conference logo patch, the college football 150th anniversary patch and a patch signifying each Naval unit.
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Ohio State Heisman Trophy Winner Howard 'Hopalong' Cassady Dies at Age 85
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Sports Illustrated ^
| 09/20/2019 | Jenna West
Howard "Hopalong" Cassady, the 1955 Heisman Trophy winner at Ohio State, died early on Friday morning at the age of 85. According
to Ohio State, Cassady died in Tampa, where he lived with his wife Barb since 1974. Cassady played for the Buckeyes from 1952-1955 as a halfback under legendary coach Woody Hayes and won the Heisman Trophy during his senior season. He became the third of the Buckeyes' seven Heisman winners and helped lead the team to a national championship in 1954 and Big Ten championships in 1954 and 1955.
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Joe Bellino, Navy's first Heisman Trophy winner, dies at age 81
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Capital Gazette ^
| March 29, 2019 | Bill Wagner
Navy football lost one of its legends Thursday when Joe Bellino died in his home state of Massachusetts at the age of 81. Bellino,
the 1960 Heisman Trophy winner as a standout halfback for the Midshipmen, had been in failing health for some time. Bellino was nicknamed the “Winchester Rifle” – a reference to his hometown and high school as well as his explosive running style. He was described by one newspaper reporter as “the player who was never caught from behind.” He starred at Navy from 1958-1960 under head coach Wayne Hardin, rushing for 1,664 yards on 330 carries...
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Making the case for Kyler: What should the Heisman-winning outfielder do next?
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Yahoo ^
| January 10, 2019 | Staff
Oklahoma quarterback and Oakland A’s first-round draft pick Kyler Murray is days away from deciding the next step of his athletic career. The
Heisman Trophy winner has until Sunday to declare for the 2019 NFL draft, which would put his baseball career on hold indefinitely in the hopes of beating the odds as an undersized quarterback. We asked Mike Oz, Frank Schwab and Sam Cooper to make the case as to why Kyler Murray should either stick with his original path of playing baseball, declaring for the NFL draft or return to the Sooners for his senior season.
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USA Today Faces Backlash After Shaming Heisman Winner for Tweets Posted When He Was a Teen
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IJR.com ^
| 09 DEC 2018 | Madison Dibble
Kyler Murray won one of college football’s highest honors on Saturday as he was awarded the Heisman Trophy for his excellence as quarterback for Oklahoma, but USA Today wasn’t focused on his football accomplishments. In
a report published late Saturday night, USA Today dug up several tweets and claimed that Murray had made homophobic statements on Twitter. According to the report, Murray called one of his friends a “queer” in 2012. He was 15 years old at the time of the tweet. In response to this hit from USA Today, Murray humbly apologized for the comments he had made when...
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Old homophobic tweets from Kyler Murray's Twitter account surface after he wins Heisman
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USAToday twitter ^
| 12/9/2018 | Scott Gleeson
As of early Sunday morning, four offensive tweets using an anti-gay slur remained active on the Heisman winner's account
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Kyler Murray Wins Heisman Trophy
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KOTV Channel 6 Tulsa ^
| 12-8-2018 | Dean Blevins
NEW YORK CITY - Kyler Murray won the Heisman Trophy Saturday night, the seventh Oklahoma Sooners football player to win college football's most coveted award. Murray
beat out Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and Ohio State signal caller Dwayne Haskins for the honor, handed out in New York City in front of a national television audience. Murray's win one year after Baker Mayfield's is the first back-to-back Heisman win for one school since Army West Point's Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis did it back in 1945 and 1946. Murray led the nation in total yards with 4,945 and had 51 touchdowns...
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Heisman Trophy Trending Toward Oklahoma's Kyler Murray In Final Days
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Al.com ^
| 12-6-2018 | Christopher Smith
Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa will need to pull a slight upset to win the Heisman Trophy when voting gets announced Saturday. (AP Photo)At times, the story of Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa's college career has approached folklore status. If
he played before the digital era, tales of his feats would present an American Samoan rival to Paul Bunyan, replete with a ukulele instead of an axe. Alabama has signed five-star quarterbacks before. But Trent Dilfer compared high-school Tagovailoa favorably to college sophomore Aaron Rodgers. As a true freshman, Tagovailoa did not play a snap of football with the outcome undetermined until...
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