Names in the News - Oct. 6, 1988
Former Raider quarterback Jim Plunkett, who has worked with charitable and community organizations, was named the recipient of the first Ernie Davis Award, established earlier this year by the Leukemia Society of America to honor football players. Davis, of Syracuse, died of leukemia 16 months after winning the Heisman Trophy in 1961.
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