Read more about the article USC athletic director Jess Hill was two years ahead of the 1970 USC-Alabama game’s myths

USC athletic director Jess Hill was two years ahead of the 1970 USC-Alabama game’s myths

PHOTO: Jess Hill serviced as USC's athletic director from 1957 to 1972. He signed a home-and-home series with Alabama's Bear Bryant in 1968, two years prior to 1970 USC-Alabama myths of Bryant orchestrated a secret plan in 1970. By TOM SHANAHAN This comes as a surprise to USC mythmakers, Bear Bryant sycophants and fans duped by 1970 USC-Alabama myths – a roll call including a compliant media – but when the game was scheduled in the winter of…

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Read more about the article Three Black Teenagers Changed the Face of College Football and Got Written Out of History

Three Black Teenagers Changed the Face of College Football and Got Written Out of History

PHOTO: Wake Forest's Bob Grant (left photo) with the ACC Network's E.J. Manuel and Kelsey Riggs. Houston's Warren McVea in the school's Hall of Fame with photo of College Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Yeoman, a former Michigan State assistant under Duffy Daugherty. From Kirkus, The Right Thing To Do: "Fascinating read" ... "unexpected subplots" ... "A work of sports history that fill gaps" ... "prose is breezy" - Tom Shanahan Report A seven-part series debunking 1970…

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Read more about the article Jackie Walker’s true 1969 Tennessee story forgotten and unjustly overshadowed by 1970 USC-Alabama folklore

Jackie Walker’s true 1969 Tennessee story forgotten and unjustly overshadowed by 1970 USC-Alabama folklore

Although no one in the documentary says it, there seems to be a feeling that Southern Cal’s rout of Alabama was the shock that the University and a majority of the fans needed to support integration of the football program. But in fact, that same shock probably came the previous year when the Tennessee Volunteers, the team that Bryant always regarded as the Tide’s most bitter foe, thrashed the Tide 41-14 at Legion Field in Birmingham. (I know—I…

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