Friends noticed. Ben Schwartzwalder, his football coach at Syracuse, said, "I never met another human being as good as Ernie." Davis was born on Dec. 14, 1939, in New Salem, Pa. His parents ...

Davis never played a down of football in the NFL, dying at the age of 23. Retired executive sports editor Ed Laubach remembers Davis in an interview with his teammate and former Phillipsburg High ...

Ernie Davis was the first black football player ... Henry “Barney” Ewell (1918-1996) Ewell was born in Harrisburg, attended J.P. McCaskey High School in Lancaster and graduated from Penn ...

Friends noticed. Ben Schwartzwalder, his football coach at Syracuse, said, "I never met another human being as good as Ernie." Davis was born on Dec. 14, 1939, in New Salem, Pa. His parents ...

Then he looked at the person and said, 'I am Ernie Davis, and I'm not dying.'" Davis learned to live life to its fullest in Uniontown, Pa. His father died before he ever really knew him ...

How Davis wound up here was sticky from the start. Owner Art Modell's relationship with head coach Paul Brown already was strained when Brown privately arranged a trade with Washington. The Browns ...