Best information I have is Jim Plunkett of Stanford whose parents are both of Mexican American heritage.
Emmitt Smith did not win a Heisman Trophy.
Desmond Howard won the Heisman Trophy in 1991.
Well, Jay Berwanger won the first DAC (Downtown Athletic Club) Award, which the next year was renamed the Heisman Trophy. The first person to win the award under the name "Heisman Trophy" was Larry Kelley.
The Heisman Trophy was first awarded in 1935 to Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
Ernie Davis
2007, his true sophomore year. First sophomore to ever win the Heisman.
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Charles Woodsan for Michigan in 1997
There has never been anyone named Bruce Franklin win the Heisman Trophy.
OJ won the Heisman in 1968.