The Ellis County Press: Cowboy visits Ferris Elementary

Cowboy visits Ferris Elementary
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Editor on 02/22/2007 00:00:00


JACOB FLORES
_The Ellis County Press_
FERRIS - Dallas Cowboy safety Keith Davis visited the Lucy Mae McDonald
Elementary School in Ferris on Thursday, Feb. 15.
One of the teachers in the school is fri-
ends with Davis and asked him to come to the TAKS pep rally
to stress the importance of the test.
Davis, who grew up in the little town
of Italy in Ellis County, has been known to go to small town schools to do this
sort of thing.
He talked about how he went to a small school too and still ended up in the
National Football League.
Davis, who played his college football at Sam-Houston State, answered questions
about himself and threw the football with some of the children in the gym.
The principal said if the students tried their hardest on the TAKS, they would
be entered into a drawing to win items with Davis' signature.