“The way he carried himself, the way he did not drown in his own tears, the way that he did not hang on his sickness, the way that he functioned as a human being under all of those conditions was tremendous courage,” says Jim Brown about Ernie Davis, the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner who died at 23 of leukemia.
“Everywhere Ernie went, football fans followed.
Ernie never brushed them aside, either, regardless of how tired he was. Ernie always had a pen for an autograph, a word for a youngster and always a thank you because he was so honored these folks thought enough of him to ask for an autograph.”
-Al Mallete, Elmira Star Gazette
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