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No white people on the team? Man, USC was racist as hell back then.Here's some history of USC beating Alanama for you
Sam "Bam" Cunningham led an all-black Southern California backfield to a rout of all-white Alabama in 1970.
USC-Alabama Rewind: How a 1970 blowout helped integrate the Crimson Tide and SEC
By Kyle Tucker, SEC Country staff
August 31, 2016
LOS ANGELES – He remembers a few of his teammates from the South being apprehensive about the trip, that a couple of them packed guns in their luggage just in case. He knows now that Sept. 12, 1970, was one of the most important nights in college football history.
But back then, in the moment, Sam “Bam” Cunningham was just hoping he’d get to play in his first college game. Praying that if he did, he wouldn’t embarrass himself. Fate had much bigger plans for the backup fullback in a tailback-oriented Southern California offense.
“I have no idea why I got to carry the ball that evening,” he said. “I know the rest of the season I never carried the ball that much in one game. It was just the good Lord doing what he does.”
Cunningham became the unlikely star of an all-black backfield against all-white Alabama that night in Birmingham when he rumbled for 135 yards and 2 touchdowns on 12 carries in a 42-21 rout of the Crimson Tide. So stunning was that result, it has long been credited with hastening the full integration of Southeastern Conference football.
The next season, Alabama introduced its first black player, John Mitchell, who went on to become the school’s first black assistant coach and later the SEC’s first black coordinator.
“To be a part of it is just amazing,” Cunningham said. “To see what college football is now and know that we had a hand in kind of making it look like this, it’s special.”