Heisman Trophy
Ticket Museum
This site is dedicated to the history of college football and its most coveted award...
The Heisman Memorial Trophy
which is presented annually to college football's most outstanding player.
The purpose of this site is to chronicle the college football season of every Heisman Memorial Trophy winner as illustrated through the beauty and artistry of game ticket stubs.
My goal is to collect a ticket stub, press pass, sideline pass, or any other form of entry to every regular season football game played during each Heisman Trophy winners Heisman Trophy winning season.
While I do prefer game ticket stubs over all other forms of entry, I will include others when I cannot find a ticket stub. I do add Bowl games and Playoff games, but they are not mandatory to the collection.
I am continually searching for the missing ticket stubs for this collection.
Please let me know if you have any of my needs available for sale or trade.
These missing tickets can be seen on each page identified with a "wanted" icon.
They can also be found in list form by clicking on the on the "TICKETS NEEDED" tab.
To date, I have acquired 843 of the 944 tickets (89%) necessary
to complete the collection between the years of 1935-2019.
Tickets beginning with the COVID-19 year of 2020 are very difficult to obtain as most schools and venues stopped printing tickets, instead going to digital formats.
I do not include any ticket from the COVID-19 year (2020) and going forward in the total
required for completion, unless I have obtained one and it as part of the collection.
That being said, on most occasion's they do exist in box office form.
I still try to obtain them when I am able to do so.
Please use the tabs below to view this collection by decade.
(for best viewing, I recommend using the desktop version, but a mobile version is also available)
I hope you enjoy this site as much as enjoy bringing it to you!
1935 Jay Berwanger - Chicago
During the 1935 season, Jay Berwanger lead the Chicago Maroons to a 4-4 overall record including a 2-3 mark in the in the Big Ten Conference. For the season, Berwanger rushed for 577 yards, passed for 405 yards, and returned kickoffs for 359 yards. He scored six touchdowns, and added five PATs for 41 points earning him the BIG TEN Most Valuable Player award as well as Unanimous All-American honors for 1935.
Berwanger's list of nicknames was just as impressive: "Genious of the Gridiron," "the One-man Team, " "the Flying Dutchman" (though his ancestry was actually German) and "the Man in the Iron Mask" (because he wore a special face guard, attached to his helmet, to protect his twice-broken nose).
In December 1935, halfback Jay Berwanger became the first recipient of a trophy from the Downtown Athletic Club of New York intended to honor "the most valuable player east of the Mississippi". John Heisman was then the club's athletic director and after his death in October 1936 the trophy was renamed in his honor and expanded to become a national honor.
The Philadelphia Eagles selected Berwanger with the first pick in the inaugural NFL Draft in 1936, although he did not play professionally due to a salary dispute.
Jay Berwanger was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.
John Jacob "Jay" Berwanger
(March 19, 1914 - June 26, 2002)
9/25/1935 at Nebraska
(L 7-28)
10/12/1935 vs. Western Michigan
(W 31-6)
10/26/1935 vs. Wisconsin
(W 13-7)
11/16/1935 vs. Indiana
(L 0-24)
10/5/1935 vs. Carroll College
(W 31-0)
10/19/1935 vs. Purdue
(L 0-19)
11/9/1935 vs. Ohio State
(L 13-20)
11/23/1935 at Illinois
(W 7-6)
Larry Kelley played at the end position for the Yale Bulldogs football program from 1934-1936. He was captain of the 1936 Bulldogs squad that compiled a 7-1 record and was ranked No. 12 in the final Associated Press poll.
In 1936, Kelley played all 60 minutes in six of his teams eight games having only missed 15 minutes out of 480 for the season. For the year, Kelley tallied 17 receptions for 372 yards and six touchdowns. At the end of the season, Kelley was a unanimous pick for the 1936 All-America team, receiving first-team selections from the All-America Board, Associated Press, United Press, Collier's Weekly, and the Sporting News.
Larry Kelley is still the only Yale player to score a touchdown in every game he played against rivals Harvard and Princeton.
On December 2, 1936 The Downtown Athletic Club announced that Larry Kelley had won the Heisman Memorial trophy as the year's best college football player. He excelled against other competitors that included Hall of Famers Sammy Baugh and Ace Parker. Kelley won the award in a landslide, receiving 213 points, more the quadruple the point total received by any other player.
After his college career, Kelley rejected offers to play professional football, baseball, and basketball and instead became a high school teacher and coach.
Larry Kelley was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.
1936 Larry Kelley - Yale
Lawrence Morgan Kelley
(May 30, 1915 - June 27, 2000)
10/3/1936 vs. Cornell
(W 23-0)
10/17/1936 at Navy (full ticket)
(W 12-7)
10/10/1936 vs. Pennsylvania (full ticket)
(W 7-0)
10/24/1936 vs. Rutgers (full press ticket)
(W 28-0)
10/31/1936 vs. Dartmouth
(L 7-11)
11/14/1936 at Princeton
(W 26-23)
11/7/1936 vs. Brown (general admission ticket)
(W 14-6)
11/21/1936 vs. Harvard
(W 14-13)
1936 Yale at Navy ticket application
1936 Yale Schedule and ticket form
1937 Clinton Frank - Yale
Clint Frank played halfback for the Yale University Bulldogs football team. For the 1937 season, he joined former teammate Larry Kelley as Yale's second Heisman Trophy winner, marking the first of five times that a school would win the award in back-to-back seasons.
Frank was the Bulldog's No. ! hero for three years, along with Larry Kelley, and was "The best back Yale ever had" according to veteran coach Earl "Greasy" Neale.
As a senior, Clint Frank rushed for 667 yards, passed for 489 yards and five touchdowns, caught one pass for six yards, intercepted four passes for 70 yards, returned five punts for 28 yards and four kickoffs for 81 yards. At seasons end, he had scored 11 touchdowns.
Announced on December 1, 1937, Frank was awarded the Heisman Memorial Trophy over Byron "Whizzer" White of Colorado and Marshall Goldberg of Pittsburgh.
After graduating from Yale, and armed with a degree in economics, Frank bypassed professional football and instead tackled the expanding field of advertising.
His career was interupted by World War II where he served in the Air Force for five years under General Doolittle fighting in bomber groups in Italy, Africa, and England.
Clinton Frank was elected to the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame in 1955.
Clinton E. Frank
(September 13, 1915 - July 7, 1992)
10/2/1937 vs. Maine (general admission only)
(W 26-0)
10/9/1937 vs. Pennsylvania (ticket application)
10/16/1937 vs. Army
(W 15-7)
10/9/1937 vs. Pennsylvania
(W 27-7)
10/16/1937 vs. Army (ticket application)
10/23/1937 vs. Cornell
(W 9-0)
10/23/1937 vs. Cornell (full photographers stand)
10/30/1937 vs. Dartmouth (Official's Pass)
10/23/1937 vs. Cornell (ticket application)
10/30/1937 vs. Dartmouth
(T 9-9)
10/30/1937 vs. Dartmouth (ticket application)
11/6/1937 vs. Brown (full photographers stand)
11/6/1937 vs. Brown (general admission)
(W 19-0)
11/13/1937 vs. Princeton (ticket application)
11/20/1937 at Harvard
(L 6-13)
11/13/1937 vs. Princeton
(W 26-0)
11/20/1937 at Harvard (ticket application)
1937 Yale Schedule and ticket form
1938 David O'Brien - TCU
Davey O'Brien played quarterback as a member of the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs football team begining in 1935 as the backup for Sammy Baugh. He took over the starting role in 1937, and was named to the first-team All-Southwest Conference.
In 1938, O'Brien threw for 1,475 yards - a Southwest Conference passing record that stood for ten years. He had only four interceptions in 194 attempts, and his NCAA record for most rushing and passing plays in a single season still stands today. That season, he led the Horned Frogs to an undefeated season, as they outscored their opponents by a 269-60 margin and held nine of their ten regular-season opponents to seven points of less, including three shutouts.
TCU finished the season with a 15-7 victory over Carnegie Tech in the Sugar Bowl and a National Championship. After all of his heroics during the 1938 season, O'Brien was named to 13 All-America teams and on December 6, 1938 became the first Heisman Trophy winner from both TCU and the Southwest Conference. He has the distinction of being the first player to win the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell award in the same season.
After finishing his college career, O'Brien was the fourth overall pick in the 1939 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles. After two seasons with the Eagles, O'Brien retired from football to become an agent in The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Davey O'Brien was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.
Robert David O'Brien
(June 22, 1917 - November 18, 1977)
9/24/1938 vs. Centenary
(W 13-0)
10/7/1938 at Temple
(W 28-6)
10/22/1938 at Marquette
(W 21-0)
11/5/1938 at Tulsa
(W 21-0)
11/19/1938 at Rice
(W 29-7)
10/1/1938 vs. Arkansas
(W 21-14)
10/15/1938 at Texas A&M
(W 34-6)
10/29/1938 vs. Baylor
(W 39-7)
11/12/1938 vs. Texas
(W 28-6)
11/26/1938 at S.M.U.
(W 20-7)
1939 Nile Kinnick - Iowa
Playing football for Iowa was not the original intent of Nile Kinnick. Yet after failing a tryout with Minnesota, he went to Iowa where his shifty running style helped him earn the nickname "The Cornbelt Comet." Kinnick led his Hawkeye's team to a 6-1-1 record during the 1939 season. A halfback who was the team's main passer, Kinnick threw for 638 yards and 11 touchdowns as well as rushing for 374 yards on 106 carries (3.5 yard average). He also made 11-of-17 dropkick conversion attempts and scored 41 points. By passing, running, or kicking, Kinnick was directly involved in 107 of Iowa's 130 points that season. He also made eight interceptions. Kinnick averaged 57 minutes per game. He played 402 consecutive minutes against Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Purdue, Notre Dame,
Minnesota, and Northwestern before a separated shoulder in the season-finale against the Wildcats forced him to the sideline.
At seasons end, Kinnick was named consensus All-American, the Big Ten MVP, as well as the winner of the Walter Camp and Maxwell awards. On November 28, 1939 Nile Kinnick was named as the winner of the 1939 Heisman Trophy.
After graduating, during World War II. Nile was a pilot attached to an aircrafy carrier in the Caribbean. In June 1943, while training of the coast of Venezuela, Kinnick crash-landed his fighter into the sea and was killed in action.
The University of Iowa renamed its football stadium in his honor in 1972.
Nile Kinnick was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.
Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr.
(July 9,, 1918 - June 2, 1943)
9/30/1939 vs. South Dakota
(W 41-0)
10/14/1939 at Michigan
(L 7-27)
11/4/1939 at Purdue
((W 4-0)
11/18/1939 vs. Minnesota
(W 13-9)
10/7/1939 vs. Indiana
(W 32-29)
10/28/1939 at Wisconsin
(W 19-13)
11/11/1939 vs. Notre Dame
(W 7-6)
