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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.”

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  9-13-14
  

  Football: Unsafe at any level

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  We need to think long and hard about why we're putting so many kids at risk to subsidize a league that's already awash in money.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10-11-13
  

  Football historian weights in on touch vs. tackle

  Football used to be seen as the testing ground for leadership. Not so much anymore.

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• Loose Lips Don't Always Sink College Presidencies

  by Howard P. Segal

  Gordon Gee and Dale Lick. Credit: OSU/U.Maine/HNN staff.Cross-posted from the Bangor Daily News.As has been widely reported in recent days, the president of mammoth Ohio State University, Gordon Gee, has been forced to resign his position because of comments he made “off the record” back in December  that were only recently reported by the Associated Press. Speaking about why Notre Dame University not been invited to join the Big Ten Conference (now consisting, of course, of ever more than ten schools), Gee lamented that “you just can’t trust those damned Catholics” to do whatever was needed to join. Gee also criticized the University of Louisville as an allegedly inferior academic institution.

• SOURCE: History.com
  5-28-13
  

  The battle for Jim Thorpe’s body

  On May 28, 1888, Jim Thorpe was born in a one-room cabin in Prague, Oklahoma. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe—an Olympic champion and football and baseball star—was perhaps the greatest all-around athlete America has ever produced. Nearly a year following his death in 1953, his widow transported his body to a small Pennsylvania hamlet that agreed to rename itself in his honor. Now amid a family feud, Thorpe’s two surviving sons are seeking to re-inter his remains on tribal lands in his native Oklahoma, and a federal judge has ruled in their favor....