Part III: College football integration lore, in the form of traffic, was steered down a fairytale exit
Tom Shanahan is an author and college football integration historian honored by the FWAA for his story on the 1962 Rose Bowl. *** “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 Misleading information saturates college football integration’s story. Tales told regionally in print were embellished into network films. Some of those myths were crafted duplicitously. The purpose was to obfuscate Alabama coach Bear…
