Mark Ingram Becomes the First Ever Heisman Trophy
Winner For Alabama
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Sophomore running back Mark Ingram has done something for the
University of Alabama that legendary quarterbacks Joe "Willie" Namath and Kenny Stabler and every
other football player at Alabama could not do--bring home a Heisman Trophy for the Crimson Tide
faithful.
Ingram nudged out running back Toby Gerhart of Stanford in the closest vote of the award's 75-
year history to become the first Alabama player to ever win the annual trophy as the best player in
college football.
Only a 28-point difference separated Ingram's 1,304 votes from Gerhart's 1,276. Ingram
received 227 first-place votes to Gerhart's 222. Finishing 3rd in the balloting was Texas quarterback
Colt McCoy, 4th was Nebraska defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh, and 5th was Florida QB Tim
Tebow. Tebow won the Heisman as a sophomore two years ago.
Colt McCoy was in the running last year when Oklahoma's Sam Bradford won the Heisman
Award. While McCoy did not win the Heisman this year (many thought he would because of his overall
performance the last 3 years), he won several other awards.
McCoy won the Maxwell Award honoring the nation's best all-around player, the Walter Camp
Football Foundation's Player of the Year Award for the second consecutive season, and the Davey
O'Brien Award for being the nation's best quarterback.
Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh won the Chuck Bednarik Award as the nation's Best Defensive
Player, the Outland Trophy as the nation's Best Interior Lineman, the Lombardi Award as the nation's
Top Lineman, and the Bronco Nagurski Trophy as the nation's Best Defensive Player.
Stanford's Toby Gerhart won the Doak Walker Award as the nation's Best Running Back.
Tennessee's Eric Berry accepted the Jim Thorpe Award honoring the Best Defensive Back. Notre
Dame's Golden Tate won the Biletnikoff Award as the nation's Best Receiver.
UCLA's Kai Forbath took home the Lou Groza Award as the nation's Best Kicker, and Georgia's
Drew Butler won the Ray Guy Award honoring the nation's Best Punter.
Cincinnati's Brian Kelly won the Coach of the Year Award on the same day he told his team he
had accepted an offer to coach the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Kelly, an Irish Catholic, called the Notre
Dame gig his dream job.
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