User talk:Ebryan100

The story about Ernie Davis isn't true to what I read as a boy in Kings Park, N.Y. I read a biography of Ernie Davis I obtained from the elementary school library. What a sad story it was, right there with Lou Gehrig and Jim Thorpe. Ernie Davis was an outstanding running back who died from a brain injury incurred while playing football. I read the book in 1962, I believe. I read a lot of sports biographies that year. I don't remember exactly but I think Ernie died in the 50's, 1959 perhaps. He never won the Heisman Trophy as far as I know but he was indisputably great and his death was tragic.