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Ernie Davis Legends Field dedicated

Associated Press

Saturday, October 10, 2009

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Carrier Dome field was named Ernie Davis Legends Field in a halftime ceremony Saturday featuring former Syracuse great Jim Brown and Martin Luther King III. The tribute to the 1961 Heisman Trophy winner comes a year after the release of a movie about his life called "The Express." Davis was the first black player to win college football's highest honor. He died of leukemia before playing a game in the NFL. "Ernie Davis represented three things to me. He was a great ath ...

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