Who Is John Heisman?

a question not be "shrugged"* off, conveniently answered in today's times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/sports/ncaafootball/08heisman.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin

here is a funny exerpt from the article, proving that the greats always a sense of humour:

Heisman, standing before his players when he first met them, would hold aloft a football and ask, “What is this?”
Answering his own question, Heisman said: “It is a prolate spheroid in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing.”
Heisman would pause and add: “Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.”

*the worst literary pun ever made