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.
Notre Dame's ties to Heisman Trophy excellence nearly started in the first year of the award, when versatile threat Bill Shakespeare-one of the heroes of the Game of the Century comeback versus Ohio State-finished third in the 1935 Heisman voting (behind Chicago's Jay Berwanger and Army's Monk Meyer).