Read more about the article The Duke of Cornerbacks covers the field

The Duke of Cornerbacks covers the field

PHOTO: Duke All-American cornerback Chandler Rivers, a potential first-round draft pick, maxmizes his coverage skills. ***Visit my homepage: TomShanahan.Report — Click here for 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. — Learn about our documentary at the fundraising stage, GAME CHANGERS OF THE CENTURY, and…

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Read more about the article Willie Ray Smith high school memories stay with Rivers as he climbs college ladder to NFL

Willie Ray Smith high school memories stay with Rivers as he climbs college ladder to NFL

PHOTO: Duke's Chandler Rivers of Beaumont, Texas, celebrates winning the MVP Trophy of the 2023 Birmingham Bowl. Rivers' three pass breakups and two tackles for a loss led the Blue Devils to a 17-10 win against Troy. *** Visit my homepage: TomShanahan.Report — Click here for 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…

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Read more about the article Daugherty and Willie Ray Smith Sr. courted Jerry LeVias to board Underground Railroad

Daugherty and Willie Ray Smith Sr. courted Jerry LeVias to board Underground Railroad

By TOM SHANAHAN Jerry LeVias is on the phone, a stationary moment unlike his 1960s trailblazing college football career. In those days, the Southwest Conference’s first Black scholarship football player left segregated Beaumont, Tex., a refinery town near Houston, for Southern Methodist University in Dallas. It was a time and place resistant to integration that kept him on the move outrunning racism. SMU students ostracized him, fans on the road taunted him with a noose (Texas) and black…

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