SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -The Carrier Dome field has been named Ernie Davis Legends Field in a halftime ceremony featuring former Syracuse great Jim Brown and Martin Luther King III.
Saturday’s 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.
Brown called Davis “a great athlete, a proponent of education and … a great human being.”
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