The Heisman Trophy

The Heisman Trophy may be the oldest trophy in college football, but it is still younger than Roscoe Bartlett. In 1935, the Downtown Athletic Club in New York awarded its first "DAC Trophy" to Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. Berwanger never played a down of professional football, saying it just didn't pay enough.

The following year, the DAC renamed their trophy after the recently deceased John Heisman. In 1936, Larry Kelley of Yale became the first player to ever win something called the Heisman Trophy. His trophy was sold at auction in 1999 for $328,110. He committed suicide seven months later.

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