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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 197190, member: 289"]
They tried to shoe-horn the Ernie Davis story into a "theater of racism" thing to put it in the same category as Remember the Titans, Glory Road, Hurricane, etc. But most people who recall him just remember his agreeeable personailty and his courage in facing his very early death. I guess they felt "theater of cancer" wouldn't sell: that's more of a TV movie thing.
 
They wanted a regular season racial incident and they'd heard that something happened at North Carolina so they were going to have the '59 team play North Carolina. SU never played UNC until 1995. They decided to use the southernmost  regular season team we played in 1959 instead. Actually that would have been UCLA or Navy but West Virginia sounded more backwards so they used that and completely libeled an honored rival. That game was played at SU and the whole thing about not wanting a black player tyo score was made up. SU played at West Virginia the next year and 6 touchdowns were scored by black players. Then they played around with the Cotton Bowl, with Ben wanting to hold his blacks out, (they played the whole game) and the 87 yard pass pass occuring on the game's last play to clinch a close win instead of on the third play of a game we won decisively.    
 
It plays alright as a movie and can be enjoyed if you don't know the true story but the same can be said of Remember the Titans, Glory Road and Hurricane. Hollywood decisons aren't based on what is true but what they think they can market.
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