Ernie Davis was an American halfback at Syracuse University who won the Heisman Trophy in 1961 as the first Black winner of the award. The Washington Redskins selected him first overall in the 1962 NFL draft, but he was almost immediately traded to the Cleveland Browns. He was diagnosed with leukemia that same year and died in May 1963 at the age of 23 without ever playing in a professional game. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979, and his life was the subject of the 2008 film The Express: The Ernie Davis Story.
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