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76 Years Later, Maryland Tries To Right A College Football Wrong
In October 1937, Maryland administrators threatened to cancel a game with Syracuse unless the then-Orangemen benched their offensive star, Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. The problem, as Maryland saw it, was that he wasn't the right type of colored boy.
(a maryland athletic exec) conducted an informal poll of co-workers and found none who was aware of the 1937 incident, either. Even Kevin Anderson, Maryland's athletic director since 2010, told her he'd never heard about it.
"But as soon as he read about it, Kevin Anderson told me, 'We've got to address this,'" Shorter-Gooden says.
And what Anderson decided on was to have a ceremony honoring Sidat-Singh the next time the Syracuse football team came to town. That will take place next Saturday. The athletic department has reserved a suite in Byrd Stadium for Sidat-Singh's relatives.
Shorter-Gooden says a family representative will be led down onto the field while a short film about Sidat-Singh's life, including mentions of what happened in that Syracuse-Maryland game, is shown on stadium video screens.
In October 1937, Maryland administrators threatened to cancel a game with Syracuse unless the then-Orangemen benched their offensive star, Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. The problem, as Maryland saw it, was that he wasn't the right type of colored boy.
(a maryland athletic exec) conducted an informal poll of co-workers and found none who was aware of the 1937 incident, either. Even Kevin Anderson, Maryland's athletic director since 2010, told her he'd never heard about it.
"But as soon as he read about it, Kevin Anderson told me, 'We've got to address this,'" Shorter-Gooden says.
And what Anderson decided on was to have a ceremony honoring Sidat-Singh the next time the Syracuse football team came to town. That will take place next Saturday. The athletic department has reserved a suite in Byrd Stadium for Sidat-Singh's relatives.
Shorter-Gooden says a family representative will be led down onto the field while a short film about Sidat-Singh's life, including mentions of what happened in that Syracuse-Maryland game, is shown on stadium video screens.
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