There have been 7 football gamers from the College of Southern California (USC) Trojans who have received the Heisman Trophy. The 7 soccer players that have won the seven Heisman awards are as follows:
- Mike Garrett, a halfback, won in 1965
- O.J. Simpson, a tailback, acquired the award in 1968
- Charles White, a running back again, acknowledged the honor in 1979
- Marcus Allen in 1981 grew to become the fourth working again from USC to win the award
- Carson Palmer was the initial quarterback for the Trojans to acquire the award when he recognized it in 2002
- Matt Leinart performed quarterback for the College of Southern California and been given the Heisman award in 2004
- Reggie Bush in 2005 was named the fifth USC jogging back again to just take house the award
With a whole of 7 Heisman Trophies created by Southern Cal the establishment of bigger mastering primarily based in Los Angeles, California is tied for the most been given by any school. Both of those the College of Notre Dame and Ohio Condition College every single match the impressive variety of 7 trophies by a solitary college. For the reason that Ohio Condition has the distinction of manufacturing the only two time winner in Archie Griffin Notre Dame and the College of Southern California actually stand with each other as the only two schools to deliver seven different winners.
The Heisman Trophy is named immediately after football pioneer John Heisman and was 1st bestowed on Jay Berwanger of the College of Chicago in 1935. More than the decades the award has become widely approved as the most highly touted and prestigious person accolade in the activity of college or university soccer. Irrespective of the association of the Heisman being given to the most fantastic college or university soccer player, winning the honor has proved to be no guarantee of qualified success.
In conditions of the seven Trojans gamers who have experienced the honor of successful the Heisman Trophy two of all those adult men transitioned from college football to the National Soccer League (NFL) as the range one particular all round picks of the NFL Draft in their respective several years. The two players selected with the 1st decide on of the first round in NFL Drafts are Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson who was taken by the Buffalo Bills in 1969 and Carson Palmer who was picked with the first decide on of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals.
Regardless of slipping to the quantity 10 overall decide on by the Los Angeles Raiders in 1982 Marcus Allen joined O.J. Simpson in 2003 as the only two former USC players to win Heisman Trophies and be inducted into the Professional Football Corridor of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
