After 14 years, Reggie Bush will be reunited with his Heisman trophy. He forfeited it after an NCAA investigation found that he and his family received improper monetary benefits during his USC time.
JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
After 14 years, Reggie Bush will be reunited with his Heisman Trophy. The former NFL and Southern California running back won the title for being the best college football player in 2005, and then he was stripped of it. Bush forfeited his trophy after an NCAA investigation found that he and his family received improper monetary benefits during his time at USC.
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But the Heisman Trust announced today that they've been considering the, quote, "enormous changes" in college athletics, like the introduction of players getting paid for use of their name, their image and likeness. And the Heisman Trust says they're happy to welcome Bush back to the family.
SUMMERS: Bush has been vocal about wanting his Heisman Trophy back ever since 2021, when college athletes were allowed to be paid.
CHANG: The Heisman Trust says Bush will get his trophy returned. It should look nice next to his Super Bowl ring.
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Derrick Henry - Heisman. Derrick Henry set the SEC single-season rushing record with 1,986 yards and tied the conference mark for rushing touchdowns with 23 on his way to Alabama's second Heisman trophy award.
After an NCAA investigation in 2010 ruled he was ineligible to participate as a student-athlete at USC, Bush became the first player in the history of the Heisman Trophy to forfeit the award. The Heisman Trust reinstated Bush's award in 2024.
Reggie Bush has his 2005 Heisman Trophy back, as the Heisman Trust announced Wednesday the formal "reinstatement" of the trophy to Bush amid what it calls "enormous changes in the college football landscape."
Davis was selected by the Washington Redskins with the first overall pick of the 1962 NFL Draft, but was almost immediately traded to the Cleveland Browns. He was diagnosed with leukemia that same year, and died shortly after at age 23 without ever playing in a professional game.
The Heisman Trophy, one of the highest individual awards in American college football, has been awarded annually since its creation in 1935, and only Archie Griffin of the Ohio State Buckeyes won it two times, in 1974 and 1975.
Share Video. Link copied! Reggie Bush's 2005 Heisman Trophy has been reinstated by the Heisman Trust, closing a controversial saga nearly 20 years in the making for the former USC running back. The decision also means the Heisman has once again been awarded consistently since 1935.
On Dec. 2, 1975, Ohio State star running back Archie Griffin claimed his second consecutive Heisman Trophy. He remains the only player to win the award twice.
Bush, who went on to become an NFL star and TV broadcaster, forfeited his award in 2010 after an NCAA investigation found that he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars while in college.
In 2017, Baker Mayfield of Oklahoma became the first former walk-on player to win. In 2018, Kyler Murray won the award the year after Mayfield, becoming the first quarterbacks from the same school to win in back-to-back years. In 2019, quarterback Joe Burrow of LSU broke numerous voting records.
After 14 years, Reggie Bush will be reunited with his Heisman trophy. He forfeited it after an NCAA investigation found that he and his family received improper monetary benefits during his USC time.
Tim Brown, the former Notre Dame star, believes all Heisman winners, whether they have been required to sign a waiver or not, should be allowed to do as they please with the trophy. The 1987 Heisman Trophy he won was sold at auction last year — unwillingly, he said, though he declined to elaborate.
Archie Griffin did something in 1974 and 1975 that has never been matched. The Ohio State running back became the first and only player ever to win a second Heisman.
ESPN Classic - Davis, 23, succumbs to leukemia. After a 13-month battle against acute monocytic leukemia, the most virulent form of blood cancer, Ernie Davis succumbs to the disease and dies early this morning in a Cleveland hospital. In 1961, Davis became the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
She and Ernie were never officially engaged, although they'd started to talk about marriage. Helen describes herself as a "person of faith, " and she accepts Ernie's death as part of a greater plan. But her voice, when she speaks of him, reflects a lasting truth.
He could run a hundred yards in ten seconds flat, and he combined that blazing speed with locomotive-like strength. Al Mallette, a sportswriter for the Elmira StarGazette, later called Davis “The Elmira Express” as he watched the halfback power down the field during a 1959 college game against Penn State.
Archie Griffin did something in 1974 and 1975 that has never been matched. The Ohio State running back became the first and only player ever to win a second Heisman. At 5-foot-9, 180 pounds, he was the Buckeyes starting tailback all four years, at time in which they tallied a 40-5-1 record and four Big Ten titles.
While Adrian Peterson was the last running back to win the award with by posting the second-most rushing yards in a single season (2,097) in 2012, Johnson thinks that McCaffrey falls into a different mold of running backs that have won the award since 2000.
Over the last 20 years, only four non-quarterbacks have won the award (DeVonta Smith in 2020, Derrick Henry in 2015, Mark Ingram in 2009, and Reggie Bush in 2005).
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