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1943 – 1987
The seven: Angelo Bertelli, quarterback, 1943. Johnny Lujack, quarterback, 1947. Leon Hart, end, 1949. Johnny Lattner, halfback, 1953. Paul Hornung, quarterback, 1956. John Huarte, quarterback, 1964. Tim Brown, flanker, 1987. In the NCAA's count only Southern California, with eight winners, has more; Ohio State and Oklahoma also stand at seven.
The cluster around them: Notre Dame's depth in the trophy's voting is part of the apparatus. In 1943 the school placed three men in the top ten — Bertelli first, Creighton Miller fourth, Jim White ninth — and Bertelli had already been the runner-up as a sophomore in 1941. In 1949 Hart won with Bob Williams fifth and Emil Sitko eighth. In 1964 Huarte won with Jack Snow fifth.
Brown's signature: The 1987 award was sealed in September, when Brown returned back-to-back Greg Montgomery punts for touchdowns in Notre Dame's 31–8 win over Michigan State — a play sequence Michigan State's own athletics history records. At Brown's 1987 ceremony all seven of Notre Dame's winners were living, and the six earlier men were photographed with him: an occasion the university's Heisman history has kept.
Sources:
- NCAA.com, college football teams with the most Heisman Trophy winners — the seven names and years; Southern California's eight; Ohio State's and Oklahoma's seven.
- Notre Dame athletics, Heisman history (fightingirish.com) — the voting clusters of 1943, 1949 and 1964; Bertelli's 1941 runner-up finish; the 1987 gathering of the seven.
- Michigan State athletics, 1966 retrospective sidebar — Brown's back-to-back punt returns of 1987.