By Bret Ladine - Dec. 8th 1999
YaleDailyNews.com
COLLEGE FOOTBALL -- HEISMAN TROPHY; First One for Sale
Dec. 1st, 1999
NYTimes.com
Larry Kelley's 1936 Heisman Trophy will be among the sports memorabilia up for bid by Leland's auction house in New York tomorrow.
Kelley, 84, who won the Heisman playing at end for Yale, had a stroke recently and is selling the trophy to help organize his estate.
CMG Worldwide, an Indianapolis-based company which brings memorabilia to auction for former athletes, said it expects the Heisman could sell for more than $100,000.
Darci Ross, president of the company, said the minimum price for the Heisman was established at $25,000, though that price has doubled based on pre-auction bids.
The only other Heisman put up for auction was the one presented to O.J. Simpson in 1968. It sold in February for $255,500.
Heisman Trophy Model Sells for $228,000
Dec. 11th, 2005
WJLA.com
The original plaster cast of the Heisman Trophy, the model used for the award given annually to the nation's top football player, sold at auction Saturday for $228,000. The cast was put up for sale by the family of Frank Eliscu, the artist who came up with the familiar design of a twisting runner, the ball tucked in his left arm and his right arm extended to ward off imaginary tacklers. The identity of the buyer was not immediately make public.
Eliscu was 23 when members of the Downtown Athletic Club selected him to design their trophy in 1935. He received a $200 fee for creating the iconic award, which was his first commissioned work.
Among those players who have won the Heisman Trophy are Barry Sanders, Roger Staubach, Ricky Williams and Doug Flutie. The actual trophy itself is cast in bronze.
Eliscu's later efforts ranged in scale from the inaugural medals of President Gerald Ford and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to the "Cascade of Books" above the entrance to the James Madison Building of the Library of Congress.
The auction was held on the same day that this year's Heisman was handed out in Manhattan.
The auction's other top lot, the uniform worn by Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio during his rookie season with the New York Yankees, failed to find a buyer. The pre-sale estimate for the uniform, bearing No. 9 rather than the Yankee Clipper's familiar No. 5, was expected to bring in more than $600,000.
Sotheby's and SCP Auctions sell the Original Plaster Cast of the Heisman Trophy Sculpture for $228,000!
Dec. 10th, 2005
Telephone bidder gets the Heisman
CNN.com - Feb. 17th, 1999
The Heisman, awarded annually to the outstanding college football player of the year, was the jewel in the crown of the auction. It was the first time such a trophy had ever gone under the auctioneer's hammer and boosted what might have been an otherwise lackluster event.
Bidding for the Heisman at the auction house in Hollywood was fast and furious. It went from $75,000 to $200,000 in less than 10 seconds. It was eventually sold to a telephone bidder who was identified only as an East Coast collector.
The Heisman was awarded to Simpson in 1968 when he played for the University of Southern California.
The families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson agreed late last year to split the proceeds from the sale of O.J. Simpson's seized assets about 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. The agreement resolved a dispute as to which family has priority over the proceeds recovered from the Simpson estate.
S.W. Fla. family hopes to cash in on original Heisman Trophy plaster sculpture
By Glenn Miller
Dec. 9th, 2005
Below - The plaster sculpture from which
the Heisman Trophy was modeled.
Below - The signature on the original Heisman Trophy statue.
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