History of the term. While postfeminism was first used in the 1980s to describe a backlash against second-wave feminism, it is now used as a label for a wide range of theories that take critical approaches to previous feminist discourses and includes challenges to the second wave's ideas.
The Downtown Athletic Club of New York City created the award and presented it first in 1935. The award, in 1935, was known as the 'DAC Trophy'. It was renamed 'Heisman Trophy' for John Heisman, the DAC's first athletic director, when Heisman passed away in 1936.
To the player bringing the prize to the school,  Douglas Fairbanks presents a gold medallion suitably inscribed and  bearing a relief replica of the trophy.. As far as I have been able  to ascertain, the trophy was first given to Erny Pinckert of USC  following the 1931 season.