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Editor's note: This story appears in all six editions of the 2019 Syracuse football gameday program. Programs are available for $5 and sold throughout the Dome.
The 1959 Syracuse football squad was the kind of team you make a movie about.
Sixty years ago, the Orange captured the program's only national championship behind future Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis and served as one of the main plotlines in the movie "The Express" based on Davis' life. Dominant, balanced and groundbreaking, Syracuse rolled to an 11-0 record, the first undefeated season in school history.