The Heisman: Great American Stories of the Men Who Won

Close your eyes and picture the

Heisman Trophy. The form is easy

to conjure, a graceful, fluid pose

that is football past and football present

in one dignified figure ...

The story of the Heisman Trophy

is an american epic.

-- from the Preface

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.

And...