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re: Rankings the SEC Programs since league-wide integration (1972)
Posted on 6/16/17 at 7:55 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 6/16/17 at 7:55 pm to RollTide1987
Sure they did
Posted on 6/16/17 at 8:00 pm to BowlJackson
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Sure they did
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Wilbur Jackson watched the myth unfold from his seat in Legion Field in Birmingham on a hot September night in 1970. He was an Alabama freshman, his presence virtually unknown. He was the university's first black football recruit, but freshmen were ineligible to play.
So the myth about the integration of Alabama athletics grew instead around Sam Cunningham, a black running back for Southern California. He played so spectacularly in that 42-21 victory over the Crimson Tide, it was said he alone had persuaded Alabama Coach Bear Bryant to begin recruiting black players.
New York Times article - July 2004
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