Trophies & Honors

The Otto Graham Society

Northwestern University Athletics honors its most loyal donors with membership in the Otto Graham Society, the leadership annual giving society. Members of this group are invested in the continued enhancement of an academic, social, and athletic experience for all Wildcats student-athletes that is worthy of the legacy of Northwestern’s greatest quarterback.

Football fans visiting the Stadium Club in Ryan Field can see the many trophies and awards the Graham family donated to the University in Otto’s honor. The display holds signed footballs, helmets worn by Graham and his son — representing the evolution from scant leather helmets to the modern polycarbonate shells — and many of the trophies that represent the scope of Otto Graham’s excellence in everything he tried.

All-Star helmet and trophy

NU Intramural football, 1940

Chicago Tribune Silver Football and William Randolph Hearst MVP trophy, both 1943

Silver Football inscription for MVP of the Big Ten (then Big Nine)

Bust of Graham

"Greatest Pro QB of All Time," America's Sports Writers, 1963

National QB Club, All-Time Team, 1995

QB Hall of Fame, 1987