Duffy’s final recruiting class: Otto’s brave new world, Raye’s transformed career and all achieved without Bear Bryant myths
Michigan State three-time All-Big Ten honoree Otto Smith, 1973-76.
The South’s 1960s timeline made college football integration a fait accompli by 1970
My website homepage, TomShanahan.Report THE SOUTH’s 1960s COLLEGE FOOTBALL INTEGRATION TIMELINE A popular myth built around the 1970 USC-Alabama game was once Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant recruited Wilbur Jackson in 1970 as his first Black recruit, the floodgates opened for the rest of the South. A quaint story, but the facts don’t back up the legend. The floodgates had been opened earlier in the decade. Bryant was late catching up to the flow. By the time USC…
OnlineBookClub.Org review: 5 stars for THE RIGHT THING TO DO
Thanks to the OnLineBookClub for a 5-star review of my new book, THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration Review of The Right Thing To Do - reviewer EBERE WRITES COCEPT - OnlineBookClub.org