Thanks to Colorado magazine for story on THE RIGHT THING TO DO: Chapter 6 tells untold story of CU football backing down Jim Crow in Miami
By Jamie Miller, Yellow Scene Magazine In the midst of their locker-room celebration of Iowa State in the 1961 College Football Playoffs, the University of Colorado Boulder Buff’s chose to take a stand. “We didn’t care if we stayed in Miami Beach, but wherever we stayed, we were staying together and eating together as a team, or we weren’t going at all,” said Joe Romig, 1961 University of Colorado Boulder football team captain. (Shanahan, 2024, pp.77). They explained…