The Heisman: Great American Stories Of The Men Who Won

by Pennington, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780060554729
• ISBN10: 006055472X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

No sport in America can match the pageantry, raw emotion, and thrilling tradition of college football. It is a world in which a twenty-year-old kid can become a national sensation overnight, in which coaches are deified and rivalries burn white-hot.

Table of Contents

Complete List of Heisman Trophy Winners	xi
Preface	xiii
``Is It Not Meant to Exemplify the Grandeur of a Thousand Men?''	1	(18)
John W. Heisman
``The Football Part Is Incidental''	19	(18)
Nile Kinnick
Under a Hero's Light	37	(16)
Tom Harmon
More Than a Game	53	(28)
Glenn Davis
Doc Blanchard
The Melting Pot Dynasty: Rockne's Legacy and Leahy's Lads	81	(28)
Angelo Bertelli
John Lujack
Leon Hart
John Lattner
The Last Ivy Leaguer	109	(8)
Dick Kazmaier
Everybody's Golden Boy	117	(14)
Paul Hornung
If There Was a Job Worth Doing, It Was Worth Doing It Right	131	(10)
John David Crow
Fundamental Principles	141	(18)
Pete Dawkins
``The Perfect Kid''	159	(16)
Ernie Davis
America's Quarterback	175	(20)
Roger Staubach
``He Hasn't Been Asked to Join. And He Hasn't Asked to Join''	195	(20)
Gary Beban
O. J. Simpson
``It's All in Your Hands''	215	(16)
Jim Plunkett
``The Heisman Is a Privilege, Not a Free Pass''	231	(14)
Johnny Rodgers
``Everyone Is Here for Their Moment''	245	(12)
John Cappelletti
Paying Forward	257	(12)
Archie Griffin
``I Wouldn't Have Asked You to Do Something if I Didn't Know You Could Do It''	269	(12)
Herschel Walker
``I Feel Bigger''	281	(14)
Doug Flutie
``We Won This Together''	295	(10)
Vinny Testaverde
``I Didn't Know Everything Like I Thought I Knew Everything''	305	(10)
Eddie George
``Kindred Spirits''	315	(16)
Ricky Williams
Doak Walker
Afterword	331	(2)
Acknowledgments	333	(2)
Index	335