Ernie Davis Legends Field dedicated
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Carrier Dome field was named Ernie Davis Legends Field in a halftime ceremony Saturday featuring former Syracuse great Jim Brown and Martin Luther King III.
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The tribute to the 1961 Heisman Trophy winner comes a year after the release of a movie about his life called "The Express."
Davis was the first black player to win college football's highest honor. He died of leukemia before playing a game in the NFL.
"Ernie Davis represented three things to me. He was a great athlete, a proponent of education and he was a great human being," Brown said. "Thank God this will be a tribute to him for the rest of our lives."
Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press
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