Heisman Winners Tim Brown & Gino Torretta Elected To Hall
- By Simon Lombardo
- Published 04/30/2009
- Offseason NCAA Football News

College Football Heisman Trophy winners Tim Brown and Gino Torretta are among the 16 players to be elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.
The National Football Foundation's other selections were Penn State's Curt Warner; New Mexico State's Pervis Atkins; Arizona's Chuck Cecil; Auburn's Ed Dyas; West Virginia's Major Harris; BYU's Gordon Hudson; Alabama's Woodrow Lowe; Stanford's Ken Margerum; Texas' Steve McMichael; Iowa's Larry Station; Georgia Tech's Pat Swilling; and Nebraska's Grant Wistrom.
Torretta led the Miami Hurricanes to the 1991 national championship and in 1992 won his Heisman Trophy. He is one of the UM's most decorated football players, having won in 1992 the Maxwell Award (best
Torretta lives in Coral Gables with his wife and young daughter. He is the CEO of Touchdown Radio, a company that syndicates a college football game every week for national radio. He also is the vice president for Institutional Sales with Gabelli Asset Management.
Tim Brown won his Heisman Trophy at Notre Dame in 1987. During his Heisman year he caught 39 passes for a 21.7 yard average. Brown also returned three punts for touchdowns, becoming the most dangerous playmaker in college football.
That was just the beginning. Brown went on to catch 1,094 passes in a 17-year NFL career, almost exclusively spent with the Raiders.


