Quantcast HuskerMax

heisman winners

MAJOR POSTSEASON AWARDS

HEISMAN TROPHY
Player
Johnny Rodgers 1972
Mike Rozier 1983
Eric Crouch 2001

WALTER CAMP
PLAYER OF YEAR

Player
Johnny Rodgers 1972
Mike Rozier 1983
Eric Crouch 2001

MAXWELL AWARD
Player
Mike Rozier 1983

DAVEY O'BBRIEN
NATL. QB AWARD

Quarterback
Eric Crouch 2001

OUTLAND TROPHY
Interior lineman
Larry Jacobson 1971
Rich Glover 1972
Dave Rimington 1981
Dave Rimington 1982
Dean Steinkuhler 1983
Will Shields 1992
Zach Wiegert 1994
Aaron Taylor 1997
Ndamukong Suh 2009

LOMBARDI AWARD
Lineman
Rich Glover 1972
Dave Rimington 1982
Dean Steinkuhler 1983
Grant Wistrom 1997
Ndamukong Suh 2009

RIMINGTON TROPHY
Center
Dominic Raiola 2000

BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY
Defensive player
Ndamukong Suh 2009

JOHNNY UNITAS
GOLDEN ARM AWARD

Senior quarterback
Tommie Frazier 1995

BUTKUS AWARD
Linebacker
Trev Alberts 1993

CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD
Defensive player
Ndamukong Suh 2009
 
 
Huskers.com's Heisman page | NU’s Heisman runners-up | 2001 Heisman news coverage | Back to H’Max honors page 


 
RETIRED JERSEYS

The university honors all major national award winners by retiring their jerseys. The player's number remains available to active Huskers, however. The only numbers to be retired are 20, 60 and 64. After the 1949 season, the N Club voted to retire No. 60 in honor of Tom "Train Wreck" Novak, a four-time All-Big Seven choice and a 1949 All-American. Bob Brown's No. 64 was permanently retired in 2004 after Brown, already in the College Football Hall of Fame, became just the third Husker in history to earn a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Johnny Rodgers' No. 20 is back in retirement after having been worn by his son, Terry, in the 1980s and by numerous other players through 2008.
 
 
Year No.  Player Major award
1949 60 Tom Novak Huskers' only four-time all-conference
197220 Johnny Rodgers 1972 Heisman/Walter Camp
197279 Rich Glover 1972 Outland/Lombardi
198250 Dave Rimington 1981 & 1982 Outland, 1982 Lombardi
198330 Mike Rozier 1983 Heisman/Maxwell/Walter Camp
198371 Dean Steinkuhler 1983 Outland/Lombardi
199475 Larry Jacobson 1971 Outland
199475 Will Shields 1992 Outland
199434 Trev Alberts 1993 Butkus
199572 Zach Wiegert 1994 Outland
199615 Tommie Frazier 1995 Johnny Unitas
199867 Aaron Taylor 1997 Outland
199898 Grant Wistrom 1997 Lombardi
200254 Dominic Raiola 2000 Rimington
20027 Eric Crouch 2001 Heisman/Walter Camp/O'Brien
2004 64 Bob Brown College (1993) and Pro (2004) HOF
201093 Ndamukong Suh 2009 Outland/Lombardi/Bednarik/Nagurski
2017 -- Guy Chamberlin 1962 College HOF
2017 1 Clarence Swanson 1973 College HOF
2017 35 Ed Weir 1951 College HOF
2017 25 George Sauer 1954 College HOF
2017 38 Sam Francis 1977 College HOF
2017 33 Forrest Behm 1988 College HOF
2017 12 Bobby Reynolds 1984 College HOF
2017 66 Wayne Meylan 1991 College HOF
 
Bold = Number permanently retired