We'd go to a park (Thornden Park, near SU) when we just wanted to walk and get away by ourselves, and there was an Italian restaurant we loved near campus; that's where we had our final meal together.". The events had such joyous energy that many white students showed up at the door. "When we wanted to be ourselves, we'd go for a drive; Ernie had this car, an Edsel, and it was a lemon, a total lemon, I don't know where he got it. Ernie, she said, exuded class despite going to college in what really was a segregated city. I hope and I pray that all is swell. You could go spend some time with Helen." "I would have loved him if he never touched a football, " Helen said, which in the end was the real greatness of Ernie Davis. In his spare time, Ernie played basketball to stay in shape. Admission to those shows cost $5, Sylvia said. Davis was treated with a drug known as 6-MP, and within weeks his illness was in a state of total remission. "The (black students) had to come to our hangouts, because things on campus were a little bit different, " said Ben Bunting, owner of the Tippin' Inn. Modeil winked at this reference to Ernie's girl, Helen Gott, a Syracuse University senior from New Jersey. He still has the tavern, now on South Avenue; it opens on weekends. I have my car here and I usually go to watch the Browns practice or go to my apartment and lounge around. As for Ernie, he roomed with John Mackey, now suffering from an illness similar to Alzheimer's disease. I'd like to get into purchasing or marketing, something like that where I could use what I learned in college." (smile). Sean Kirst is a columnist with The Post-Standard. But it's too late in the season to take the time during practice to work me into the setup.". Ernie, from afar, made sure the date was a success -- knowing his roommate didn't have much choice on where to go. © 2020 Advance Local Media LLC. While I won’t be able to start this season off with the Browns, I am hoping and praying that I can re-join them before this season is over. If student athletes weren't welcome in the greater community, they were greeted with pride in the 15th Ward. They eventually became a couple, a time still precious to Helen, almost 50 years later. That's a really rare quality with men, but he was a rare individual.". Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission. Ernie followed Jim Brown to the Cleveland Browns as a pro, and, after the financial arrangements had been made, everyone thought that the pairing of these two strong, swift and elusive runners would return the Browns to their former eminence in the National Football League. Kansas has had its most competitive U.S. Senate race in decades, though President Donald Trump carried the state as expected. A flicker of a smile would cross Ernie's usually solemn face as he acknowledged a greeting or reluctantly paused to sign an autograph. When Ernie took over Brown's old position as the Syracuse halfback, he proudly wore Brown's No. He entered the hospital on Thursday and went into a coma on Friday. You have it made. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. That is, my red & white blood cells are not being manufactured 100%. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (each updated 1/1/20). A letter dated Aug. 9, 1962, from Ernie Davis to Helen Gray, then Helen Gott: Dear Helen, How’s everything with you? We would hang out as a group at the Tippin' Inn; some people were just really great dancers, and we'd play the music and dance a lot and everybody had a great time. He often sat on the bench with the team, one of them in all but uniform. (smile) As you know, I am here at Marymount Hospital recovering from my illness. Davis’ girlfriend, Helen Gott, was at her sorority house on the Syracuse campus when two friends came up and put their arms about her. Sign up for Afternoon Headlines and get the day’s biggest stories in your inbox. "Hi ya, Ern," "Hi, Ernie," "How ya feeling, Ernie?" During his short lifetime he had not had time to accomplish anything outside of sport; in fact, he had not even had time to fulfill his prime ambition in sport. Keep journalists asking the hard questions. "I just remember it as a really beautiful place. She was a quiet kid, one of a handful of black freshmen in 1959 at Syracuse University. All rights reserved (About Us). What have you been doing? As for me, I am feeling fine. I am anxious to get started. But outside the football team, most students lived lives of black and white. Many older students were already there, including members of the track and football teams. Amid hot race for open Senate seat, Trump carries Kansas, Founder of two Wichita restaurants dies at age 47, was ‘bigger than life,’ family says, Worst week for COVID cases puts Sedgwick County at 16.81% positive test rate. I guess I have rambled on long enough now, so I’ll close for now wishing you the best. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Ernie Davis of Syracuse University, 1959, against Boston University.Helen Gott hung back from the dance floor. The way they put it, it seems that I was about to die. 44 jersey and during the next three years proceeded to break most of Brown's records for ground gaining and point scoring. Helen describes herself as a "person of faith, " and she accepts Ernie's death as part of a greater plan. Write soon. From the time of his early athletic successes in high school, Ernie had set his heart and mind on being the best professional football player anywhere. "I didn't know that much about football, and I do remember telling him I didn't know he was a big star, and him laughing.". Later Davis talked about the future in his diffident way, as if every hesitant word were being pulled from within him by the greatest effort. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. As for Helen, an editor in Kansas City, she is sure Ernie would have achieved great things once he was done with football. Of all such tributes it has come to be regarded as the most important. They were especially close to the late E.D. Sylvia Mackey, whose husband, John, became a Hall of Famer in the National Football League, remembers how she and Leroy Boyd, a standout in track and field, were coordinators of an informal group known as "The Members.". Later that year, Helen would be named "weekend queen" of the freshman class, an honor celebrated at a football game. Helen Gott hung back from the dance floor. Only 1 is green. "Ernie was a wonderful person; he could be gentle and kind, and still manly. I take it that you are just taking life easy, writing poetry, catching up on your reading during the day and partying during the nite, as well as seeing the sites of New York. She has a feeling that's when Ernie noticed her again. Brown, after his NFL career, became a banking executive. I hope all that publicity that I received didn’t scare you. "Syracuse is really beautiful in the fall and in the spring," she said. That exclusion, if anything, only enflamed a sense of mission. I am taking all kinds of little pills. She went on to study at Columbia University before settling in Kansas City, where she married a minister and built a journalism career as Helen Gray. This dis-order is something like mononucleosis. Helen Gott hung back from the dance floor. "Helen Gott (the future Helen Gott Gray); Syracuse University yearbook, 1962.She was a senior in 1963, when a chaplain came to Sigma Delta Tau -- the sorority in which she'd become the first black member -- to tell her Ernie was dead of leukemia. Ernie apologized, as he often had, for the expense that his medical care was causing the Browns. (smile) Now concerning you. "I want people to know you can excel in your profession, entertainment or sports, and you can also be a gentleman," she said. Conscious of the boorish, self-centered behavior of so many of today's celebrities, she'll be happy if the film underlines a basic point: Ernie Davis was the kind of man a boy should want to be.
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