Abner A. Davis - Prairie View, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 30° 05.663 W 095° 59.345
15R E 211916 N 3333013
Bust is on a marble pillar in front of G.R. Wollfolk Political Science Building on the Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) campus.
Waymark Code: WM16EWJ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/16/2022
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PVAMU Website“Abner Davis, a member of the varsity football team, met with an accident in a game with Texas
college in Tyler on November 4, 1927. Mr. Davis sustained a broken neck in tackling a Texas College player. He tackled low, and the player’s knee struck his head at the base of the neck. Abner was paralyzed from his neck and shoulders down and past away after an illness of seven or
eight days.”
“Abner’s classmates and the supervisor of the class erected a monument and plaque in his memory in the middle of the campus.”
Plaque Text:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ABNER A. DAVIS
A GRIDIRON HERO 1902-1927
MEMBER OF CLASS OF '30
A TOWER OF
STRENGTH IN THE HEARTS OF
ALL WHO KNEW HIM
TABLET BY CLASS OF '30
FOUNTAIN BY CLASS '29
Bust shows a black man with a short military style haircut.