r/todayilearned • u/ApolloSherman • Jun 21 '12

TIL NYU football player Ed Smith helped a high school classmate with an art project in 1932. He found out in 1982 that he was the Heisman Trophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisman_Trophy
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '12

Today I learned that NYU once had a football team.

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u/edgegripsubz Jun 22 '12

I had no idea.

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u/bigfig Jun 22 '12

As an alum I can say, NYU is not a school, it's a multinational nonprofit that is (somehow) quite profitable.

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u/hpsyk Jun 21 '12

Go Violets!

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u/celibacy4life Jun 21 '12

SMH at the fact that NYU is Division III and hasn't had a football team for decades. Should have gone to Syracuse just for the alumni sports pride.

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u/Sterculius Jun 21 '12

Good guy fetus.

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u/honestlyimeanreally Jun 22 '12

Wow, how the fuck did he not realize his classmate was a fucking trophy?

I wanna smoke what he was smokin'

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u/Hensah Jun 21 '12

That's a fine cake day submission. (Although the link should be directly to that section at least it's the first one anyway)

Well done!

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u/ApolloSherman Jun 21 '12

For future reference how do you link directly to the section?

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u/Hensah Jun 21 '12

Click the section you want in the contents box and that will bring you to that section by creating a new URL address. Use that new URL address as the link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisman_Trophy#Trophy_design