Rob Brown ’08 will star alongside Dennis Quaid in the upcoming film The Express, set to release this fall. Brown, a football player during his own college career, will play Ernie Davis, who died from leukemia at the age of 23 shortly after becoming the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961.

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