Gardena Serra all-purpose athlete carries Horace Smith’s spirit with him to California state title
PHOTO: Gardena Serra's Troy Tw Crozier is the great-great nephew of Michigan State's Horace Smith, a pioneer athlete for the Spartans from 1946-49. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN Bear Bryant may have tried to prevent Horace Smith from taking the field for skin color in a 1947 Kentucky-Michigan State game, but Smith’s spirit freely ran up and down football fields 74 years later through his great-great nephew’s 2021 season. Troy Tw Crozier, a senior at…