When Syracuse Whipped Texas NFL Jerseys Supply for the National Title

In 1960, an undefeated (11 0) Syracuse football team throughly whipped Texas, 23 14, in the Cotton Bowl to win the 1959 college national championship. The Syracuse team featured at least one genuine star: eventual Heisman winner Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the trophy, who would score twice in the Cotton Bowl and was voted the game MVP. Both teams, it turns out, were as tough as any that have ever played for the Nike NFL Jerseys China national title. As LIFE magazine noted in its Jan. Schwartzwalder, an ex paratrooper who had developed Syracuse into the the best college team of 1959, maybe the best team in a decade. He coaches as though getting the team ready for a full scale invasion climbing 20 foot ropes and sprinting half miles.

Last week after annihilating every team they met during the regular season, the hard noses from Syracuse ran into some hard noses from Texas in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas and some tough and bitter things began to happen. Each snap of the ball became a signal for a brawl. A near free brought Benny out on the field to defend his men and avert an honest Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys to goodness fight.

But LIFE also reported that the game moved back and forth on the field and the normal tensions of the players were increased by the body crunching fury of the play, an ugly undercurrent of racial bitterness began to spread with shocking results. But this was short lived. was really dirty, said one Syracuse player afterward. never met a bunch like that before. Once when he was plowing through the line, said Negro fullback Art Baker, of them spit right in my face. To goad him off balance, Brown claimed, Stephens kept calling him big black dirty nigger. Finally, Brown warned him not to call him that again. When Stephens did, Brown swung.

Afterward Stephens apologized to Brown. But Brown had already forgiven him. Texas boy was just excited, he said. forget it. of this back and forth was dramatized in The Express, the largely Wholesale Jerseys fanciful 2008 film about Ernie Davis life. (Davis died of acute monocytic leukemia in 1963, at just 23 years old, before getting a chance to play in the NFL). Both Syracuse and Texas players have noted that quite a bit in the film was pure fiction, and many Texas players have stated in the years since that there was little racial animus on display during that long ago Cotton Bowl.

A number of Syracuse players, meanwhile, respectfully disagree with their Longhorn counterparts version of the game even as Brown himself long argued that many of the racially charged scenarios depicted in The Express were embellished, or even wholly made up.