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His sculptor buddy Frank Eliscu had just needed a football player to model for a project, and Smith volunteered. Smith figured Eliscu was just doing some little personal sculpture and remained totally oblivious to his spot in football history for the next 48 years until a documentary filmmaker called Smith to interview him about the Heisman in Smith initially had no idea what the guy was talking about, but he eventually remembered his modeling days.

In , the Downtown Athletic Club gave Smith his own copy of the Heisman, and in he even received recognition on the televised ceremony. He looked at the four finalists—Vinny Testaverde won that year—and quipped, "Whoever wins the award, I feel sorry for you, because you're going to be looking at my ugly face for a long time. Quite a bit. A number of Heisman winners have eventually sold their hardware, and the trophies fetch quite a bit of loot.

SEC fans are going to be floored by this one, but the Ol' Ball Coach did something really classy when he won the Heisman in Instead of taking the trophy for himself, Spurrier gave it to the University of Florida so the school could display it and let the student body enjoy it.

Florida's student government thought Spurrier's generosity was so classy that they paid for a replica for Spurrier so he'd get to have his own trophy, too. Since then both the school and the player have received copies of the trophy. Well, not really. Heisman was on the victorious side of possibly the most gratuitously run-up score in sports history. In tiny Cumberland College canceled its football program and disbanded its squad, but it had previously signed a contract to travel to Atlanta to play Heisman's Georgia Tech team.

Tech went up in the first quarter, but Heisman kept attacking until the final score was There are tons of hilarious stats from the game, but the funniest is Georgia Tech rushing for yards while Cumberland only squeaked out negative yards on 27 carries.

BY Ethan Trex. Who Exactly Was John Heisman? Any Other Shenanigans on Heisman's Resume? What Kind of Coach Was He? Read More. About the Trophy. The trophy is School with the most wins: Notre Dame and the University of Oklahoma are tied with seven winners, and Ohio State with seven wins.

One player won twice - see below. Voting and Award Process. The Heisman Trophy Trust oversees balloting. There are ballots: "Sectional representatives" choose voters, usually sports journalists, in six regions across the country, for ballots.