Read more about the article College football’s integration birther lie spreading to 1972 in new USC project

College football’s integration birther lie spreading to 1972 in new USC project

PHOTO: The national media continues to portray Bear Bryant (L) and John McKay as college football integrations leaders. In reality, they were the 1960s status quo -- Bryant's segregated teams in the South and McKay's teams limited to a half-dozen or so Black players. By TOM SHANAHAN I recently used Twitter to query Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss about his book, “Barack Obama: The Story,” and media coverage of the birther lie. I noted his book thoroughly detailed the…

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Read more about the article Conjecture drives the 1970 USC-Alabama narrative

Conjecture drives the 1970 USC-Alabama narrative

CHAPTER 6: CONJECTURE + ALTERNATIVE FACTS = MYTHS If Mark Twain were alive today as a college football fan, he might have said, “There are lies, damn lies and conjecture.” But if there had been a kernel of truth to the USC-Alabama myths, the highlighted Trojans player for Bryant to educate his bigoted fans was USC quarterback Jimmy Jones. Unlike Cunningham, Jones was a returning starter; he made a 1969 Sports Illustrated cover. In 1970, Condredge Holloway was…

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Read more about the article September 12, 1970: STANFORD vs. ARKANSAS at LITTLE ROCK

September 12, 1970: STANFORD vs. ARKANSAS at LITTLE ROCK

Cover photo (L-R): Stanford's all-minority backfield in 1970: Jackie Brown, Hillary Shockley and Jim Plunkett. Visit my home page, TomShanahanReport *** “History writes people out of the story. It's our job to write them back in.” --- David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. BY TOM SHANAHAN We’ve been misled by myths surrounding the 1970 USC-Alabama game’s racial impact. The revisionist history has cost the true 1960s pioneers of college football integration their due. They’ve been forgotten. They are hidden…

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