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Subject: Re: NAACP Urging Black Athletes to Boycott Southern Universities


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Date Posted: 08:06:32 05/21/26 Thu
In reply to: Bengal 's message, "Re: NAACP Urging Black Athletes to Boycott Southern Universities" on 22:55:41 05/20/26 Wed
 Probably. But drubbings in football by integrated colleges helped to remove barriers in team rosters in the football-mad south.

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An Observer
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Date Posted: 17:45:10 05/21/26 Thu
Bear Bryant intentionally scheduled a 1970 *HOME* game against a powerful integrated USC team featuring an all-black backfield including Sam "Bam" Cunningham, knowing that a probable loss at Legion Field would serve as a conspicuous signal to the Alabama faithful that staying an all-white program would necessarily mean decline and eventual irrelevance in college football.

Cunningham and USC ran all over Alabama, so Bryant had his desired signature loss. He soon got his desired integrated team.

I often think about what race relations in this nation would be like if African Americans were not great athletes. Imagine what this country would look like if our history and everything else were the same, but black athletes ran no faster or jumped no higher than their white counterparts.

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Date Posted: 07:27:38 05/22/26 Fri
Agreed.

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