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.
USA TODAY Sports Images. Tony Dorsett has some advice for Jameis Winston. Dorsett, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1976 when he was a senior running back at Pittsburgh and then of course went on to have a Hall of Fame career with the Dallas Cowboys, is in New York City for the Heisman festivities this weekend.