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    • Michigan State’s Underground Railroad led college football integration in the 1960s. The chief engineer was Willie Ray Smith Sr., a Texas high school coach and father of Bubba Smith, Michigan State’s College Football Hall of Fame player. Willie Ray Smith drives the Underground Railroad, winding through the segregated South as he picks up players for Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty.
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  • Raye of Light: Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, The Integration of College Football, and the 1965-66 Michigan State SpartansRaye of Light: Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, The Integration of College Football, and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans Quick View
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    • When Jimmy Raye enrolled at Michigan State University in 1964, he did more than just enroll in a university hundreds of miles from his native Fayetteville, N.C.: he was part of a groundbreaking movement that changed college football forever.
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    • Jerry LeVias, Warren McVea and Leon Burton are major figures in college football history, but their accomplishments aren’t widely celebrated these days, even at their alma maters. The story of college football integration in the 1960s was ignored by sportswriters of the era, and schools saw little upside to trumpet their racial accomplishments.
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WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY: Tracing 1930s Syracuse to 1960s Michigan State

PART IV, Duffy’s fingerprints on 1971 GOC: Nebraska’s Bob Devaney and Chuck Fairbanks from Daugherty’s coaching tree

Not Homer nor Christopher Nolan can save North Carolina from this Belichick shipwreck

Cap 8 debuts football media days

The Vandy Project: My appearance debunking Bear Bryant myths spread at expense of 1960s true pioneers

WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY: Research exposed Thomas Jefferson; sports media failures promote Bear Bryant fairytales

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