Heisman trivia. Get your Heisman trivia right here, before they hand the trophy tomorrow night to a sophomore for the first time.

Take it to the bank. Tim Tebow. Why the Florida quarterback? The reasons are hidden in the following list of Heisman finer points. They're not that difficult to find.

The only Heisman winner to ever be engaged to Elizabeth Taylor ... Army's Glenn Davis, 1946.

The only winner to have his ceremony interrupted by an air raid siren ... Minnesota's Bruce Smith on Dec. 9, 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor, when an alert went up on the jittery east coast.

The only winner to end up an agent for the FBI ... TCU's Davey O'Brien, 1938.

(Did you realize that between passing and running, Tebow accounted for 51 touchdowns, which is more than 88 schools scored this season, and 25 more than the entire Notre Dame team produced?)

The only woman who married two Heisman winners ... Yvonne Davis, widow of Glenn Davis, and before that, widow of Wisconsin's Alan Ameche.

The only winner from a school no longer playing Division I football ... Jay Berwanger, the first recipient in 1935, from the University of Chicago.

The most ominously accurate acceptance speech ... Iowa's Nile Kinnick in 1939, who said it was so much better living in America in the early days of World War II "where they have football fields instead of in Europe where they have battlefields." Less than four years later, Kinnick was killed in a crash of his fighter plane.

The only winners to become dentists ... Ohio State's Les Horvath, 1944, and LSU's Billy Cannon, 1959.

The only winner who was a polio victim ... Army's Pete Dawkins, 1958.

(Did you know that Tebow had 22 rushing touchdowns, more than 78 teams, including 12 more than Florida State and six more than Hawai'i, which is playing in the Sugar Bowl?)

The only winner from a losing team ... Paul Hornung, 1956. Notre Dame had an awful 2-8 season. Kind of like now.

The last winner to be a two-way player ... Navy's Joe Bellino, 1960, who averaged more than 40 minutes a game.

The last winner to serve in an active war zone ... Navy's Roger Staubach, 1963, who had a tour in Vietnam.

The first African-American winner ... Syracuse's Ernie Davis, 1961, who died less than two years later from leukemia.

The only winner to also go to the college basketball Final Four ... Oregon State's Terry Baker, 1962.

The four winners to eventually be named Super Bowl MVP ... Staubach, Stanford's Jim Plunkett of 1970, USC's Marcus Allen of 1981 and Michigan's Desmond Howard of 1991.

The only winner to become a national championship head coach ... Florida's Steve Spurrier, 1966.

(Did you know that, despite all his running feats, Tebow also ended up second in the nation in passing efficiency and his 29 touchdown passes were more than all but eight quarterbacks?)

Only winner to play in the NBA Finals ... Florida State's Charlie Ward, 1993.

Only winner to become MVP of the baseball All-Star Game ... Auburn's Bo Jackson, 1985.

Only purely defensive player to win ... Michigan cornerback Charles Woodson, 1997.

The former New York University running back who appears at every Heisman award dinner ... Ed Smith, at least in statue form. He was the model for the sculptor who made the Heisman trophy.

The longest standing winner still living ... Army's Doc Blanchard, 1945.

The longest standing winner still playing in the NFL ... Miami's Vinny Testaverde, 1986.

Twenty-one of the 72 past winners — almost one of every three — have played ... for USC, Notre Dame or Ohio State.

Florida went 9-3, and Texas' Ricky Williams is the only Heisman winner since 1990 to come from a team with that many defeats. But Tebow's schedule gets him extra points. And so do 51 touchdowns. Hand him the 25-pound likeness of Ed Smith, and add him to the trivia.

Mike Lopresti is a columnist for Gannett News Service. Reach him at mlopresti@gns.gannett .com.