Read more about the article WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY: Tracing 1930s Syracuse to 1960s Michigan State

WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY: Tracing 1930s Syracuse to 1960s Michigan State

PHOTO: INVISLBLE NO MORE is available online, including Amazon. Buy me a coffee to support my research to tell untold college football integration untold stories. Thomas Shanahan | @Thomas-Shanahan-23 Order link: Raye of Light: Jimmy Raye, The Integration of College Football 3rd Ed – August Publications *** By TOM SHANAHAN College football integration’s long journey remains a largely untold story that is misunderstood when cited with bits and pieces in college football lore. One profound story lost to…

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Read more about the article SPORT magazine article, August 1969, confirms Namath to Alabama begins and ends with Maryland

SPORT magazine article, August 1969, confirms Namath to Alabama begins and ends with Maryland

Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN Sometimes I receive challenges -- albeit feeble efforts -- to stories debunking a tired and unsubstantiated claim that Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty traded Joe Namath in 1961 to Alabama coach Bear Bryant for Charlie Thornhill in 1963. It is complete fiction, a tall tale promulgated largely to obfuscate Bryant resisting integration until signing his first Black player in 1970, Wilbur Jackson. And sometimes I hear from someone like Victor…

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