So they commissioned a young sculptor named Frank Eliscu to create a statue of a football player ... coach and DAC Athletic Director John W. Heisman, it was renamed the Heisman Trophy.

The Heisman Trophy has been awarded annually since 1939 to “the most outstanding college football player in the United States ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Native American statue known as ‘Big John’ was built in 1954 and stood outside Pratt’s ...

A statue of Vessels, the 1952 Heisman Trophy winner, was the first one placed at the park in 2005. When a statue of Owens was added two years later, it was bigger than the statue of Vessels.