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Davis' gravestone, Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY Statue at Ernie Davis Middle School (now at Ernie Davis Academy), Elmira, NY. While preparing to play in the College All-Star Game against the Green Bay Packers in Chicago in the summer of 1962, [5] Davis awoke with a swollen neck and was hospitalized, [1] with mumps or mononucleosis initially ...
Plaque on statue of Ernie Davis, Ernie Davis Academy, Elmira, New York. Ernie Davis, the only Orange player to win the Heisman Trophy, played at Syracuse from 1959 to 1961, and went on to national fame in each of those three seasons, winning first-team All-American honors twice.
Floyd Burdette Schwartzwalder (June 2, 1909 – April 28, 1993) was a Hall of Fame football coach at Syracuse University, where he trained future National Football League (NFL) stars such as Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little and Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
More: 'Buzzie' an Elmira icon and Ernie Davis' best friend: How he spread the 'Express' legend. Hometown heroes. Robert "Skip" Valois, a retired professor of public health whose career included 29 ...
Ernie Davis Academy is the junior high school in Elmira, New York, United States. It occupies the building formerly used by the Elmira Free Academy, a high school, which merged with Southside High School to become Elmira High School in September 2014. [3] It has 855 students in grades 7–8 with a student-teacher ratio of 13 to 1.
Ernie Davis Award winners. 1963: Ray Fratarcangelo, Elmira Free Academy 1964: Mike Malone, Elmira Notre Dame 1965: Jack Leonard, Notre Dame 1966: Joel Ramich, Notre Dame 1967: Charley Collins ...
A proposal calls for Liverpool High School to host the Big 44 Ernie Davis/Floyd Little All-Star Classic at noon Sunday, Nov. 20. The contest would pit seniors from Section 4 against their Section ...
The 1961 Syracuse Orangemen football team was an American football team that represented Syracuse University as an independent during the 1961 college football season.In their 13th year underhead coach Ben Schwartzwalder, the Orangemen compiled an 8–3 record, outscored opponents by a total of 253 to 117, and defeated Miami (FL) in the 1961 Liberty Bowl.