Mark Ingram Becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner for Alabama

Copyright © 2009 Ed Bagley

Sophomore running back Mark Ingram has done something for the University of Alabama do legendary quarterback Joe Willie Namath and Kenny Stabler and every other football players in Alabama could not – bring home the Heisman Trophy for the Crimson Tide faithful.

Ingram came from running back Toby Gerhart of Stanford to be in the closest vote of the award of the 75-year history, the first Alabama player to ever win the annual trophy for the best player in college football.

Only a 28-point difference separated Ingram 1304 votes from Gerhart's 1276th Ingram received 227 votes for first place to Gerhart's 222nd Finishing third Place in the polling was Texas quarterback Colt McCoy, 4 Nebraska defensive lineman was Ndamukong Suh, and 5 Florida QB Tim Tebow was. Tebow won the Heisman as a sophomore two years ago.

Colt McCoy was in the race last year when Oklahoma Sam Bradford won the Heisman Award. While McCoy did not win the Heisman this year (many thought he would because of its overall performance over the last three years), he won numerous other awards.

McCoy won the Maxwell Award honoring the nation's best all-around player, the Walter Camp Football Foundation's Player of the Year Award for second consecutive season, and the Davey O'Brien Award as the nation's best quarterback.

Nebraska Ndamukong Suh Chuck Bednarik Award as won the nation's best defensive player, the Outland Trophy as the nation's best interior lineman, the Lombardi Award as the nation's top lineman and the Bronco Nagurski Trophy as the nation's best defensive player.

Stanford's Toby Gerhart Doak Walker won the award as the nation's best running back. Tennessee's Eric Berry accepted the Jim Thorpe Award Best Defensive Back honors. Notre Dame's Golden Tate won the Biletnikoff Award as the nation's best receiver.

UCLA's Kai Forbáth took home the award for Lou Groza of the nation's best kicker, and Georgia Drew Butler won Ray Guy Award honoring the nation's best punter.

Cincinnati's Brian Kelly the Coach of the Year Award won on the same day he told his team he had accepted an offer to coach the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Kelly, an Irish Catholic, called "Notre Dame" gig his dream job.

The 10 winners of the previous Heisman Trophy quarterbacks and two included 10 running backs. The two running backs Reggie Bush of Southern California included in 2005 and Ron Dayne of Wisconsin in 1999.

The 8 included quarterbacks Chris Weinke of Florida State in 2000, Eric Crouch of Nebraska in 2001, Carson Palmer of Southern California in 2002, Jason White of Oklahoma in 2003, Matt Leinart of Southern California in 2004 Troy Smith of the Ohio State in 2006, Tim Tebow of Florida in 2007 and Oklahoma in 2008 by Sam Bradford.

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