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.
Bo Jackson earned his Heisman Trophy, which was anything but easy. The happy ending hasn't changed. Thirty years ago, Auburn running back/legend Bo Jackson won the 1985 Heisman Trophy he deserved to win. If you know anything about Bo, you know that. What you may not know is the unhappy backstory, the vicious innuendo that almost resulted in the greatest robbery in Heisman history at the expense of the greatest athlete this state has ever known.