SEC Network’s Texas/Oklahoma Wishbone film ignores Houston Veer, flipped script to Bryant Revisionist history and omits true pioneers

PHOTO above (Houston 1966 yearbook): Houston quarterback Bo Burris rolls out of the Veer offense in a 1965 game at Tennessee. A 2018 Sports Illustrated article credited Houston coach Bill Yeoman for the “the first true triple option” with his Veer offense. ***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,…

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Three Black Teenagers Changed the Face of College Football and Got Written Out of History

PHOTO: Wake Forest's Bob Grant (left photo) with the ACC Network's E.J. Manuel and Kelsey Riggs. Houston's Warren McVea in the school's Hall of Fame with photo of College Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Yeoman, a former Michigan State assistant under Duffy Daugherty. From Kirkus, The Right Thing To Do: "Fascinating read" ... "unexpected subplots" ... "A work of sports history that fill gaps" ... "prose is breezy" - Tom Shanahan Report A seven-part series debunking 1970…

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