AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYER

Ernie Davis

1939 - 1963

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Ernest R. Davis (December 14, 1939 – May 18, 1963) was an American college football player who was a halfback for the Syracuse Orangemen who won the Heisman Trophy in 1961. He was the award's first black recipient. Davis was selected first overall by the Washington Redskins in the 1962 NFL draft but was almost immediately traded to the Cleveland Browns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernie Davis has received more than 4,251,292 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Ernie Davis is the 6th most popular american football player (down from 5th in 2019), the 8,571st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,699th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American American Football Player.

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  • 4.3M

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  • 52.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Among american football players, Ernie Davis ranks 6 out of 63. Before him are O. J. Simpson, Jim Brown, Tom Brady, Joe Montana, and Dick Butkus. After him are Dan Marino, Johnny Unitas, Kurt Warner, Aldo Donelli, Joe Namath, and Cam Newton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Ernie Davis ranks 473. Before him are Feroz Khan, Chang Sang, Francisco Mendes, Paul Drayton, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, and Larry Linville. After him are Boris Tishchenko, Jan Mrvík, Ted Kaufman, Erik Hansen, Gerry Goffin, and R. C. Sproul. Among people deceased in 1963, Ernie Davis ranks 190. Before him are Nikolai Aseev, Aquilino Ribeiro, María Guadalupe García Zavala, Jack Carson, Artur Lemba, and Benno Moiseiwitsch. After him are Jorge Daponte, ZaSu Pitts, Eric Carlberg, Ivan Brown, Lloyd Fredendall, and Louis Ségura.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ernie Davis ranks 8,571 out of 20,380. Before him are Karin Slaughter (1971), James Broderick (1927), Steve Harwell (1967), Chuck Mangione (1940), Christian Pulisic (1998), and Zitkala-Sa (1876). After him are Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), Jennifer Batten (1957), Alice Calhoun (1900), Miriam A. Ferguson (1875), and Marston Morse (1892).

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Among AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among american football players born in United States, Ernie Davis ranks 6. Before him are O. J. Simpson (1947), Jim Brown (1936), Tom Brady (1977), Joe Montana (1956), and Dick Butkus (1942). After him are Dan Marino (1961), Johnny Unitas (1933), Kurt Warner (1971), Aldo Donelli (1907), Joe Namath (1943), and Cam Newton (1989).

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