Seven Notre Dame football players have won the Heisman Trophy, college football’s most coveted award. Read in-depth bios of all seven Irish Heisman winners including how they got to Notre Dame, their winning seasons, and what they did after winning college football’s most coveted award.
NOBODY saw this one coming! John Huarte was from California, a prized prospect from an emerging Catholic prep school, Santa Ana Mater Dei, which would later produce Heisman honoree Matt ...
Paul Hornung’s path to the Heisman Trophy was filled with intrigue, surprise and adventure, and finished in what is arguably the most controversial Heisman Trophy Award. Hornung was a legendary schoolboy ...
It seemed that Notre Dame’s Heisman Trophy winners were following a Westward sojourn. Angelo Bertelli, from Springfield, MA, was the first and next was John Lujack of Connellsville in Western PA. ...
Leon Hart was a big player for Notre Dame. He was actually the BIGGEST Heisman Trophy Winner of all time. Hart was born in Pittsburgh, and was recruited to Notre ...
John Lujack was born and raised in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh. Lujack was a four sport athlete at Connellsville, and was an RKG, graduating as both the Valedictorian and Senior ...
The Heisman Trophy was first awarded in 1935 by New York’s Downtown Athletic Club as the “Downtown Athletic Club Trophy.” John Heisman, the former coach at Georgia Tech, was the athletic ...
