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6 unusual facts about Downtown Athletic Club


1994 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1994 Heisman Trophy presentation ceremony was held on December 10, 1994 at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City.

Downtown Athletic Club

It was most famous for its annual awarding of the Heisman Trophy in its building, given every year to the most outstanding college football player, and named after John Heisman, the club's first athletic director.

Jay Berwanger

He was the first winner of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy in 1935 (the following year the award was renamed the Heisman Trophy); the trophy is awarded annually to the nation's most outstanding college football player.

John Heisman

Heisman subsequently became the athletics director of the former Downtown Athletic Club in Manhattan, New York.

Johnny Lattner

Lattner sent the Downtown Athletic Club a check for $300 along with newspaper coverage of the fire and received a replacement.

Peter Warrick

At season's end, Warrick was not invited to the award presentation at the Downtown Athletic Club, and finished sixth in the overall voting.



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