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re: Why Did Bear Bryant Wait Seven Years to Integrate Bama Football?
Posted on 11/17/13 at 4:17 pm to TeamCornbread
Posted on 11/17/13 at 4:17 pm to TeamCornbread
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In the 60's? Not so much.
He won what, 3 championships in the 60s?
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Posted on 11/17/13 at 4:30 pm to DWag215
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The next season Alabama started recruiting African American athletes to play football and short after them so did every other college of the south.
hmmmm, interesting.
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Owens was the first African-American football player on scholarship at Auburn. He arrived on Auburn’s campus as a freshman in 1969.
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It said Henry Harris, the basketball player who was the school's first black scholarship athlete in 1968, had died.
The truth is, Alabama was one of the last SEC schools to start recruiting black players.
Posted on 11/17/13 at 6:05 pm to DWag215
This would have been a great off-season thread. Why use it now when we can talk about how great Gus Bus is and how Mizzou deserves to be in Atlanta instead of SC?
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