football

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  3/7/2021
  

  A University of Texas Report Will Find That ‘The Eyes of Texas’ Has “No Racist Intent”

  A University of Texas Commission's report will likely serve as reinforcement for the administration's decision to keep the tradition of playing "The Eyes of Texas" after football games, pleasing many rich donors and angering student activists. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/6/2021
  

  Conservative Donors Have Their Own Cancel Culture

  "In 1903, the two students premiered their song at an annual campus minstrel show, where white musicians performed it in blackface. It became a tradition at subsequent minstrel shows and was soon embedded in the university’s culture. Some people apparently want to keep it there forever."

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  3/1/2021
  

  “UT Needs Rich Donors”: Emails Show Wealthy Alumni Supporting “Eyes of Texas” Threatened to Pull Donations

  A number of wealthy University of Texas alumni have threatened to withhold donations unless "The Eyes of Texas," a song with roots traced to blackface minstrelsy and the Lost Cause mythology, is reinstated as the Longhorns' postgame anthem. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2/23/2021
  

  Japanese Internment, Football, and a Legendary Team

  Dave Zirin's Edge of Sports podcast hosts Bradford Pearson, the author of "The Eagles of Heart Mountain," the story of a group of interned Japanese American teens whose football team dominated the state of Wyoming. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/5/2021
  

  The Buccaneers Embody Tampa’s Love of Pirates. Is that a Problem?

  by Jamie L.H. Goodall

    "Perhaps time has dulled us to the atrocities committed by these 17th and 18th century outlaws. Or perhaps it’s the fact that if pirates of the Golden Age were bloodthirsty, so too were the nations who opposed them."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/12/2020
  

  As College Football Grapples with the Coronavirus, it also Confronts its Racist History

  by Bennett Parten

  It's no coincidence that the south is the heartland of college football. The region first embraced the game as an expression of southern honor culture. While southern colleges were slow to adopt integrated rosters, today's Southeastern Conference teams rely heavily on the unpaid labor of Black players. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/11/2020
  

  Black College Athletes are Rising up Against the Exploitative System they Labor In

  by Amira Rose Davis

  While athletes’ collegiate activism in the 1960s and 1970s produced limited wins, today’s movement echoes many of the still-unanswered demands of that time.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/28/2020
  

  Playing College Football in 2020 Would Continue to Devalue Black Lives

  by Eddie R. Cole

  In many ways, the disproportionate number of black student-athletes preparing for their football seasons have become the figurative lab mice as some college leaders assess the feasibility of in-person classes.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/28/2020
  

  History Meets Mythology: Debate Stirs over Push to Rename T.C. Williams High School, of ‘Remember the Titans’ Fame

  Thomas Chambliss Williams served as superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools from the 1930s to the 1960s. He resisted integration, argued black and white students learn differently and fired a black cafeteria worker when she joined a NAACP lawsuit compelling Alexandria to end segregation.

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• SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
  7/15/2020
  

  University of Texas won’t Drop Song with Racist History as Players Requested

  University of Texas athletes had demanded that the university cease to use the song, which has roots in racist minstrelsy and the words of Robert E. Lee, as an anthem. 

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  7/13/2020
  

  Where Did The Term ‘Redskins’ Come From?

  Monday’s announcement that the D.C. region’s football team would be abandoning the Redskins brand marks the end of a decadeslong push to shift the team away from the historically racist and oppressive term.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/2020
  

  A Brief History of The Word ‘Redskin’ And How It Became a Source of Controversy

  Its origins extend back to the 18th century, long before it became the name of a football team.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  6/23/2020
  

  Cancel the Fall College Football Season

  by Victoria L. Jackson

  For too long, instead of facilitating the intellectual advancement and economic empowerment of young Black men, college sports have helped make American universities another institution perpetuating the undervaluing of Black lives.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/6/2020
  

  Myron Rolle, now a doctor treating coronavirus patients, draws on football background in crisis

  Myron Rolle’s hands are used to moving from one unalike task to another. He has batted away footballs and wielded a blade in neurosurgery with equal deftness at the top levels, so dealing with the novel coronavirus would be just another stretch, if not for an unsettling major difference: He is being asked to play without a helmet.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/4/19
  

  100 Years of NFL History in Objects

  100 years of football history through artifacts from the Pro Football Hall of Fame

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• SOURCE: Christianity Today
  

  God and the Gridiron Game

  by Paul Putz and Hunter Hampton

  America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.

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  Review of Julie Des Jardins' "Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man"

  by Luther Spoehr

  The "Father of Football" and the "crisis of masculinity."

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• SOURCE: OUPblog
  8-4-15
  

  “Deflategate” and the “Father of Football”

  by Julie Des Jardins

  Today one could argue that the very size and convoluted nature of the NFL rule book is proof of football’s imperfection, but Walter Camp, the father of football, saw this development as progress.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-14-14
  

  The President Who Never Earned His Varsity Letter

  by Michael Beschloss

  For a president who never made the front line of his college squad, football played a surprisingly large part in Richard Nixon’s life.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  9-22-14
  

  The Forgotten Story of the Men Who Broke the NFL’s Color Barrier

  “No one has bothered to tell this story,” Mr. Greenberg said. “So I said, we’re telling the story through them, and their families.”