— Visit my homepage: TomShanahan.Report

— Click here for book review and purchase link: THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration in the 1960s and here for a purchase link to RAYE OF LIGHT, Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the Integration of College Football and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans.

— Watch a three-minute video to learn about our documentary at the fundraising stage, GAME CHANGERS OF THE CENTURY, and the Investment Deck.

— Documentary synopsis: Duffy documentary snynopsis.pdf – Google Drive

— I will debate anybody, anytime, anywhere Duffy Daugherty led college football integration

— My FWAA first-place story on the 1962 Rose Bowl and segregation

— My chance to tell the true stories of college football integration on The Spiro Avenue Show – Tom Shanahan Report

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By TOM SHANAHAN

Thanks to Los Angeles Sentinel sportswriter Amanda Spurlock for her story about my book, “THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration in the 1960s,” and our documentary team’s project, “GAME CHANGERS OF THE CENTURY.”

You can read the article here: January 3, 2026: “The Right Thing To Do” Explains Desegregation of College Football – Los Angeles Sentinel

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Our documentary project: Game Changers of the Century documentary development – Tom Shanahan Report

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My FWAA first-place story on the 1962 Rose Bowl and segregation references legendary LA Sentinel sportswriter Brad Pye Jr.’s opposition to the Rose Bowl inviting segregated Alabama to face UCLA in the 1962 Rose Bowl.

UCLA, dating to Jackie Robinson, Kenny Washington and Woody Strode in 1939 and into the 1960s, was always ahead of USC on integration. However, the accepted narrative in college football lore distorted the true story with misperceptions created by myths surrounding the 1970 USC-Alabama game.

The myths embellished the impact of the game. College football integration in the South was nearly complete by the late 1960s, and the long-standing unwritten quota limiting Black athletes to a half-dozen or so had faded away.

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I’ll put my facts on the true pioneers of college football integration versus Bear Bryant fairytales against anybody, anytime, anywhere. Watch here.

Click here for my story on the 1962 Rose Bowl and Segregation and Alabama.

— Tom Shanahan is an award-winning sportswriter with two books on college football integration, “RAYE OF LIGHT, Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the Integration of College Football and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans,” and “THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration in the 1960s.” They are the most accurate accounts of college football integration in the 1950s and 1960s. They also debunk myths about the 1970 USC-Alabama game. The false narrative co-opted the stories of the true pioneers who stood up to Jim Crow and the KKK.

— Two children’s books also explain Michigan State College Football Hall of Fame coach Duffy Daugherty’s impact on integration through the Underground Railroad and the Hawaiian Pipeline: “DUFFY’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD” and “HOW DUFFY PUT HAWAII ON AMERICA’S FOOTBALL MAP.”

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PURCHASE LINKS, non-fiction books

— RAYE OF LIGHT, August Publications or on Amazon.

— THE RIGHT THING TO DO, August Publications or on Amazon.

PURCHASE LINKS, children’s books

— DUFFY’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, Order from Barnes and Noble here and Amazon here. 

— HOW DUFFY PUT HAWAII ON AMERICA’S FOOTBALL MAP, coming soon on Barnes and Noble and Amazon.