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 SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A half-century after Jim Brown first made it famous, Syracuse officially retired jersey No. 44 at halftime of the Orange's game against South Florida on Saturday.
With six of the 25 men who once wore the jersey on hand — Brown, Floyd Little, Thomas Stephens, William Schoonover, Michael Owens and Rob Konrad — along with Marie Fleming, the mother of the late Ernie Davis, a mammoth replica of the jersey was unveiled near the roof and to the side of one end zone of the Carrier Dome.
"It's great for the university," Brown, who led the NFL in rushing eight times in his nine-year career with the Cleveland Browns, said to the cheers of the more than 40,000 fans in attendance. "I'm just very happy to be here and help start a new era."
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