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    in 1979 and was the subject of the 2008 film The Express: The Ernie Davis Story. Davis was born in New Salem, Pennsylvania. His father was killed in an...
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  • The Express: The Ernie Davis Story is a 2008 American sports film produced by John Davis and directed by Gary Fleder. The storyline was conceived from...
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  • 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...
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    Football Hall of Fame, 2nd-most in the ACC, including former players Ernie Davis, Tim Green, Don McPherson, Art Monk and former coaches Vic Hanson, Ben...
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    (2000), Coach Carter (2005), Take the Lead (2006), and The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (2008), and for starring in the HBO series Treme (2010–13) and...
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    Undercover Brother (2002), Ray (2004), Freedomland (2006), The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (2008), The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009), The Help (2011), The Birth...
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  • Riverside Elementary School Broadway Elementary School Coburn Elementary School Broadway Academy Ernie Davis Academy Elmira High School Official website...
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    After the filming of The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, Quaid went to Cleveland Browns Stadium to dedicate Davis's jersey. Quaid began podcasting in 2020...
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    picture role in the feature film The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, the biopic of Ernie Davis, portraying Davis' teammate Art Baker. He took a year-and-a-half...
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  • York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-15. "Ernie Davis". Biography. Retrieved 2017-03-16. "African American Athletes Ernie Davis". www.myblackhistory.net. Retrieved...
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    appeared in films The Salon (2005), Stomp the Yard (2007), The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (2008), Tekken (2009), Black Coffee (2014), and Chocolate City...
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  • Other Drugs and The Express: The Ernie Davis Story. He makes a recurring appearance on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Agent Davis where his wife Dichen Lachman...
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    Presents: Band Camp, Get Rich Or Die Tryin', 8 Mile, The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, Transformers, and Shall We Dance Obstacles 2000. He was a CSI:...
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    the persuasion of the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner, Ernie Davis. Little is the only three-time All-American running back to have played...
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    The Ernie Davis Story, a 2008 film about Syracuse University Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis starring Rob Brown as Davis, and Dennis Quaid as Davis' Syracuse...
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    an unsuccessful effort to name the university stadium after alumnus Ernie Davis, a star running back who died of cancer before he could join the National...
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    cooperation of the Browns. The 2008 film The Express: The Ernie Davis Story explains how Ernie Davis is traded to the Browns by the Washington Redskins. Early...
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    year she played Sarah Ward in the American sports film The Express: The Ernie Davis Story opposite actor Rob Brown. In the Lifetime movie, Sins of the Mother...
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  • original draft of The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, a biographical film about American football player Ernie Davis. He wrote the screenplay for In the...
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  • featured sophomore running back Ernie Davis who, in 1961, became the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. Davis was slated to play for the Cleveland...
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    League (NFL) stars such as Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little and Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy. Schwartzwalder...
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    performed in several feature films; his early roles include The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (2008) and The Soloist (2009). In 2010, he portrayed Eddie Sweat...
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    of Dollhouse. Gjokaj has since appeared in the films The Express: The Ernie Davis Story alongside Dennis Quaid, Taking Chance with Kevin Bacon, and Eagle...
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    Crashers and The Break-Up, as well as larger roles in The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, She's Out Of My League and L!fe Happens. In 2010, Stults played...
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    turf was dedicated to Ernie Davis, the first African American Heisman Trophy winner, in 1961. The field now reads "Ernie Davis Legends Field" between...
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    Smoke Bo Goodnight Television film Beneath John 2008 The Express: The Ernie Davis Story President Kennedy 2009 ExTerminators Dan 2011 So Undercover Professor...
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  • American football player Ernie Davis (1939–1963), American football player Ernie DiGregorio (born 1951), American basketball player Ernie Dodd (1880–1918), New...
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    Senior 1st 1960 Joe Bellino Navy HB 1,793 52.89% Senior 146th (AFL) 1961 Ernie Davis* Syracuse HB/LB/FB 824 25.18% Senior 1st 1962 Terry Baker* Oregon State...
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    He also appeared in his first feature film in 2008, The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, as running back Floyd Little. He landed his first regular role...
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  • (2005) Daddy Day Camp (2007) The Heartbreak Kid (2007) The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (2008) Our House (2018) Special thanks Texasville (1990) Producer...
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