* 1869 – John Heisman, American football player and coach ( d. 1936 )

* October 3 – John Heisman, American football coach ( b. 1869 )

* October 25 – John Heisman, American football coach ( d. 1936 )

* John David Crow, Heisman Trophy Winner 1957

Seven Italian American players won the Heisman Trophy: Angelo Bertelli of Notre Dame, Alan Ameche of Wisconsin, Gary Beban of UCLA, Joe Bellino of Navy, John Cappelletti of Penn State, Gino Torretta and Vinny Testaverde of Miami.

With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football.

It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman ( former Brown University and University of Pennsylvania player ; head football coach at Auburn University, Clemson University, Rice University, and University of Pennsylvania ; and football, basketball, and baseball head coach and athletic director at Georgia Tech ).

Of the three colleges where trophy namesake John Heisman coached, only Auburn University has produced any Heisman winners, with Pat Sullivan in 1972, Bo Jackson in 1985 and Cam Newton in 2010.

John Cappelletti's 1973 Heisman Trophy

There was an entire gallery with the museum-attraction dedicated to the Trophy, including the making of the Trophy, the history of the DAC, and information on John Heisman and all the Trophy's winners.

In 1936, John Heisman died and the trophy was renamed in his honor.

* center snap ( 1894 ; John Heisman and Walter Camp claimed to have invented it in 1893 )

From major colleges, it signed talented players like LSU's Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon, Arkansas's Lance Alworth, Notre Dame's Daryle Lamonica, Kansas ' John Hadl, Alabama's Joe Namath, and many more.

* College football national championship – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets ( coached by John Heisman )

* John W. Heisman

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* Heisman Trophy ( after John Heisman )

He joined former Clemson mentors John Heisman and Jess Neely in the membership.

Alexander was the Tech football coach from 1920 – 1944 and the third athletic director ( after John W. Heisman ); his tenure as coach included the 1929 Rose Bowl team.

October 7, 1916: Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland College 0 In the most lopsided game in American football history, Georgia Tech, under legendary coach John Heisman, defeated Cumberland College 222-0.

A few of the many outstanding sports figures who were student athletes at Ohio State include Jesse Owens, “ The Buckeye Bullet ,” ( track and field ), John Havlicek, Jerry Lucas, and Katie Smith ( basketball ), Frank Howard ( baseball ), Jack Nicklaus ( golf ), Archie Griffin ( football running back, the only two-time Heisman Trophy winner ), and Chic Harley ( three-time All-American football running back ).

His work was a key aspect of Hermann Weyl and John von Neumann's work on the mathematical equivalence of Werner Heisenberg's matrix mechanics and Erwin Schrödinger's wave equation and his namesake Hilbert space plays an important part in quantum theory.

In 1897 Father John Gerard of Stonyhurst College, namesake of John Gerard ( who, following the plot's discovery, had evaded capture ), wrote an account called What was the Gunpowder Plot ?, alleging Salisbury's culpability.

A former savings bank named for him was merged in the 1990s with Industrial Bank of Washington, D. C. A namesake, John Hanson Briscoe, was a circuit judge and Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates.

* John Walker ( grocer ) ( 1805 – 1857 ), Scottish founder of John Walker & Sons and namesake of the Johnnie Walker whisky brand

The original campus-site at the corner of Presque Isle and Kaye Avenues was on land donated by local businessman and philanthropist John M. Longyear, whose namesake academic building, Longyear Hall, opened its doors to students in 1900.

After his death, his namesake Giovanni Gaetano Orsini was appointed a cardinal by Pope John XXII.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen | Prince John Maurice, namesake of the Mauritshuis, portrayed by Jan de Baen

Its namesake is President John Adams.

Two years later on December 6, 1875, the county's name was shortened to " Clay " by the Arkansas General Assembly ; though some sources say it was renamed for the legendary statesman Henry Clay, others say John M. Clayton remained its official namesake.

Named for Saint John the Baptist, the mission is the namesake of the city of San Juan Bautista.

However, the namesake for classical Cepheids is the star Delta Cephei, discovered to be variable by John Goodricke a few months later.

Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi ( John Francis Bongiovi, Jr .), guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres.

However, a public outcry was brewing among the London populace who saw a sinister irony in the parallels between the conviction of Fisher and that of his patronal namesake, Saint John the Baptist, who was executed by King Herod Antipas for challenging the validity of Herod's marriage to his brother's divorcée Herodias.

The sandwich is the namesake of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.

* John Edward Anderson ( 1917 – 2011 ), American businessman, namesake of the UCLA Anderson School of Management

* 1869 through 1882 Seminole Negro Indian Scouts ( mixed heritage Seminoles with African blood ) under John Lapham Bullis, namesake of Camp Bullis, defend the Texas border against Indian attack.

* John Todd, uncle of Mary Todd Lincoln and namesake for Todd County, Kentucky

By the time the county was reestablished on February 26, 1857, John Duncombe of Fort Dodge ( namesake of Duncombe, Iowa ) had tricked Humboldt County into cedeing the southern four townships ( Jackson, Deer Creek, Badger, Newark ) to Webster County " on loan ".

The Seviers claim descent from John Sevier, a fighter in the American Revolution, governor of Tennessee, and namesake of Sevierville and Sevier County in eastern Tennessee.

The newspaper is also known as the namesake of " The Washington Post March ", which John Phillip Sousa composed in 1889 while he was leading the United States Marine Band ; it became the standard music to accompany the two-step, a late 19th-century dance craze.

The school is named for Senator John H. Bankhead, which was also the namesake of the previous high school that was located in the Benchfield community of the city.