Ernie Davis
American football player
1939 – 1963
Who was Ernie Davis?
Ernest "Ernie" Davis was an American football running back and the first African-American athlete to win the Heisman Trophy. Wearing number 44, Davis competed collegiately for Syracuse University before being drafted by the Washington Redskins, then almost immediately traded to the Cleveland Browns in December 1961, when he was issued number 45. However, he would never play a professional game, as he was diagnosed with leukemia in 1962. He is the subject of the 2008 Universal Pictures movie biography The Express, based on the non-fiction book Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express, by Robert C. Gallagher.
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- Born
- Dec 14, 1939
New Salem-Buffington - Also known as
- Ernest Davis
- Elmira Express
- Ernie
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Syracuse University
- Elmira Free Academy
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
- Died
- May 18, 1963
Cleveland
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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