That man? Jay Berwanger, the first player ever selected in the NFL Draft. In February 1936, Jay Berwanger, a standout halfback from the University of Chicago Maroons, was chosen as the very first ...

Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago was the first player ever chosen in an NFL draft. And he never played a down of pro football. The Feb. 8, 1936, inaugural nine-round event at ...

Jay Berwanger, the first in a long line of Heisman Trophy winners as college football’s 1935 player of the year, died Wednesday night of lung cancer at his home in Oak Brook, Ill., a Chicago suburb.

There was little doubt that University of Chicago halfback Jay Berwanger would go first that year. At 6-foot tall and 195 pounds, the standout player of his class had just received the first ever ...

Showcased in lights, upon individual pedestals is Joe Montana's soup bowl, Red Grange's game-worn helmet and the 1935 helmet worn by the first Heisman Trophy winner, Jay Berwanger. It's nestled ...

John Jacob “Jay” Berwanger could be the poster boy for how sports has changed over the years. As a senior at the University of Chicago, Berwanger, an Oak Brook resident, was voted the greatest ...