TomShanahan.Report and NIL partners

Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report Listen to my partners for Name, Image and Likeness videos, and their endorsements of "Raye of Light" and "The Right Thing To Do." They explain Michigan State's leading role in college football integration and the influence of Duffy Daugherty's 1950s and 1960s teams on the rest of college football. Michigan State's influence begins with Gideon Smith, who is in the Hall of Fame at three schools: Michigan State, Ferris State and Hampton University.…

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The End Game

GRAPHIC (6th Block Creative). Visit my home page, TomShanahan.Report The End Game discusses race and sports in America with a focus on Michigan State coach Duffy's Daugherty's 1960 teams leading college football integration. Duffy's teams were the sport's first fully integrated rosters and won national titles in 1965 and 1966. Don't believe the myths and fiction surrounding the 1970 USC-Alabama game that aggrandized USC's role and obfuscated Alabama coach Bear Bryant dragging his feet into the 1970s. The…

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Duffy Daugherty’s Underground Railroad

Visit my home page, TomShanahan.Report Scroll down to Ken Burns at Episode 7. *** The purpose of the Milestone Minutes to enlighten college football fans about the true 1960s pioneers of college football integration. It started with Daugherty's 1960s teams, the first fully integrated rosters. It continued with schools, including USC and Notre Dame, abandoning their unwritten quotas limiting Black athletes on the roster to a half-dozen or so. In the same time decade, southern schools began to…

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