USD Football 1992

much attention because we were not on television that season," he added. "But when he started to roll up great numbers. all the highlight shows began touting him for the Heisman. We had nothing to do with it." Perhaps the whole business is placed in better perspecti ve by a story related by Glenn Davis, who won the Heisman Trophy at Army in 1946. At one time, two of his neighbors in southern California were Tom Harmon, who won it at Michigan in 1940, and Les Horvath. Ohio State's first winner in 1944. A visitor at Davis' house, seeing the award being used as a doorstop, was sur– prised that it was not more prominently displayed. "Oh," Davis replied. "It's really not that big a deal. Our neighborhood is fu ll of them.'' •• • The Heis- and Heis-not: Ty Detmer brought home Brigham Young's first Heisman in 1990, despite critics' claims of a weak schedule, while probation may have hurt Houston quarterback David Klingler, who never really came close to winning the award, despite rewriting the SWC record books.

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