Career
Even before taking up a full soccer scholarship at Howard, while still just a teenager, he was selected among the top 31 Jamaican football players to prepare for a game against the world’s greatest player, Pelé, and his Santos Football Club of Brazil in 1971 less than a year after Pelé had led his Brazil National team to the 1970 World Cup title in Mexico. He was pictured on the cover (and listed on page 1) of the Soccer America (Société Anonyme) magazine which reported on that historic championship season and that 1974 final game against Saint Louis University (who were gunning for their third consecutive title) which lasted into a fourth overtime period. After losing in the semi-final, Howard U. soccer coach – Lincoln "Tiger" Phillips prompted a reporter and was quoted in the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch as he noted Mike’s absence due to injury stating that “….
lieutenant might have been different had Michael Davey been able to play but he was out with an ankle injury….”.
In November 2004, as the 30th anniversary of that unmatched 19-0-0 season record approached, Wil Kuhns (a Soccer America reporter) tracked down and interviewed him, seeking to explore the training “secrets” employed by the Bisons in 1974 which led to this record surviving for such a long time.
The resultant article “That Last Perfect Season” was published in the 2004 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s College Cup magazine with the inclusion of Mike’s quotes regarding the Bisons’ 1974 training methods.