Sixty years ago today, Syracuse running back Ernie Davis became the first Black football player to win the Heisman Trophy. The No. 44 legend, also known as the “Elmira Express,” received ...

Ernie Davis succeeded at every ... recruited Davis for football, but Syracuse, just 90 miles away, held an advantage. Syracuse also had a famous player in its corner, Jim Brown, the first in ...

Named in honor of the late-great Ernie Davis, the first Black player to ever win college football’s Heisman Trophy, “The ...

Davis was the first Black football player to ever win college football’s Heisman Trophy while at Syracuse University. Best known as “The Elmira Express,” Davis sadly passed away in 1963 at ...

Some thoughts from the Ernie Davis Scrimmage at the ... Desir can flat out move and is one of those players that just finds his way into plays and has a good football sense about him.

Said Guinnip: "Being a kid growing up in the Elmira area, everybody wants to be like Ernie Davis. Not only a football player, but a leader. He's just a big role model for kids my age and I just ...

In 2020, ESPN ranked Brown as the greatest college football player ever. But Brown means ... a number worn by Ernie Davis and Floyd Little. The number became synonymous with not only football ...

Syracuse university football player Ernie Davis, holds his Heisman Trophy on Dec. 6, 1961. AP ELMIRA — A fire at an upstate New York middle school named for the late Syracuse University football ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. -- A football taken from the upstate New York grave of 1961 Heisman Trophy winner Ernie ... grounds. Davis was an All-American at Syracuse University and the first black player ...

The name’s the same, but his game is much different. And, no, Renton High School football player Ernie Davis was not named after legendary Syracuse running back Ernie Davis, who was the first ...

Administrators with the Elmira City School District say the fire early Wednesday in the library at Ernie Davis ... linked to Davis, the first black player to win college football's Heisman Trophy.