Davis was honored Saturday at ISU

Troy Davis, Iowa State football’s all-time leading rusher, was arrested Sunday on the charge of public intoxication, according to online records.

Davis was arrested at 2:29 a.m. on Chamberlain Street in Ames by ISU police. He "was unable to stand unassisted and had blood shot/watery eyes," admitted to drinking and "his speech was slurred and had a strong smell of alcohol on his breath," ISU police said in a press release. Davis refused to take a field sobriety test as well as a breath test.

He was being held at Story County Jail on Sunday morning. When reached for comment by the Ames Tribune on Sunday evening, Davis said, "I do not want to talk about it," before ending a phone call.

The 41-year-old Davis was honored Saturday during ISU’s game against Baylor at Jack Trice Stadium for his upcoming induction into the College Football Hall of Fame.

He and his brother, ISU’s second-leading all-time rusher Darren Davis, also attended ISU’s game the previous week against San Jose State as former ISU coach, Dan McCarney, was inducted into the school’s hall of fame.

“Everybody recognizes me,” Troy Davis told reporters during an interview Wednesday. “Once Darren and I started signing autographs and taking pictures, it seemed like the whole stadium came toward us to take pictures and sign autographs.”

Davis became the first, and still only, player to rush for 2,000 yards in back-to-back seasons when he eclipsed the mark in 1995 and 1996. It was announced in January he would be inducted this December into the hall of fame.







