“BEAR BRYANT & SAM CUNNINGHAM: Everyone LIED about 1970” is headline to Untold Stories video

Buy me a coffee to support my research to tell untold college football integration untold stories. Thomas Shanahan | @Thomas-Shanahan-23 Order link: Raye of Light: Jimmy Raye, The Integration of College Football 3rd Ed – August Publications *** By TOM SHANAHAN A college football historian sent me a Youtube video about the 1970 USC-Alabama game and the myths surrounding it. He knew “Untold Stories” – not to be confused with American Untold Stories (I checked) -- fit my…

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Listen/Watch my podcasts on Spotify telling untold stories of college football integration pioneers lost to history

My podcasts are Duffy's Milestone Minutes and The End Game. You can also view them on my website, Tom Shanahan Report – Sports articles written by Tom Shanahan Milestone Minutes:  https://open.spotify.com/show/033D1e80vdO0feSq46p7Tu?si=rSrfm-BJS4CqIp-xxxR-cg The End Game:  https://open.spotify.com/show/033BO1VD42txhbw3TpO968?si=5zsoUnBQSyKwft-pe_kmnw

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WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY, Part I: Durham hotel housing Michigan State in 1964 defied Jim Crow

PHOTO: New research identified the Durham Holiday Inn West as the hotel that defied Jim Crow by housing Michigan State's football team for its 1964 game at segregated North Carolina. The moment is worthy of a historical marker, but the hotel built in 1963 no longer exists. The above photo is a typical 1960s Holiday Inn sign. *** Buy me a coffee to support my research to tell untold college football integration untold stories. Thomas Shanahan | @Thomas-Shanahan-23…

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