"The Express - The Ernie Davis Story"
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Paul Hornung was the 1956 Heisman Trophy winner who played on a Notre Dame team that finished the season 2-8. He is the only player from a losing team to win the Heisman Trophy.
That was O.J. Simpson (1968 Heisman winner) and Roger Staubach (1963 Heisman winner) who were both elected to the Hall of Fame in 1985. Since then, six other Heisman winners have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame ... Paul Hornung, Doak Walker, Earl Campbell, Tony Dorsett, Marcus Allen, and Barry Sanders. For the upcoming 2010 elections to the Hall, Tim Brown is the only Heisman winner on the list of electees.
The first NFL draft was held in 1936. The first player chosen was Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago by the Philadelphia Eagles. Berwanger was the Heisman Trophy winner in 1935. He wound up choosing not to play pro ball and never played a down in the NFL.
That was 1965 Heisman winner Mike Garrett who started at running back for the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I. He rushed 6 times for 17 yards and caught 3 passes for 28 yards in the game. Paul Hornung, the 1956 Heisman winner, dressed as a member of the Green Bay Packers that won Super Bowl I but did not play in the game.
Ernie Davis did not marry, He died at age 23 of leukemia. Ernie was the first African American man to win the Heisman Trophy and the first to join the prestigious Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.