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[trojanfight]

Lev: Doc reveals relevance of USC-Alabama clash | game, usc, glazer - Sports - The Orange County Register

Interesting story a drubbing of Alabama by usc I'll tune in

 

[UNA Lion]

The following season, as the documentary chronicles, Alabama came to L.A. and beat USC with a new offensive system – the veer option – and two black players – John Mitchell and Wilbur Jackson. Football in the South never would be the same.

Yep, Alabama football played a critical role in integration.

 

[trojanfight]

lol you sure it wasn't getting thrashed by black players at home? funny thing is much of Alabama still believes how that governor did...some things never change

 

[Bandwagonbo2]

lol you sure it wasn't getting thrashed by black players at home? funny thing is much of Alabama still believes how that governor did...some things never change

John01992, is that you?

 

[rolltide14_0]

lol you sure it wasn't getting thrashed by black players at home? funny thing is much of Alabama still believes how that governor did...some things never change

Get this bitch out of here.

 

[4down20]

Get this bitch out of here.

I don't think I ever see anything intelligent from that guy. Not only in general, but he's just as dumb when it comes to college football as well.

 

[UNA Lion]

lol you sure it wasn't getting thrashed by black players at home?

Getting beat by an integrated team likely had a lot to do with Bear integrating the Alabama team.

funny thing is much of Alabama still believes how that governor did...some things never change

Sadly, that's where you simply transform into an ignorant jackass, with stereotypical statements like that normally expected from the ignorant and clueless.

 

[Bamabino]

a. Bama had black walkon players in 1967. One played in the A-day game
b. Bama ran the wishbone, not the veer option as the author states
c. author is a dumbass

 

[brin3535]

Hey OP go find another board(site) to to stir up your racial bullshit.

 

[trojanfan12]

Getting beat by an integrated team likely had a lot to do with Bear integrating the Alabama team.

If memory serves, Bear wanted to integrate the team, that was why he wanted the game. He and John McKay were very good friends so that helped get the game set up.

 

[Bandwagonbo2]

If memory serves, Bear wanted to integrate the team, that was why he wanted the game. He and John McKay were very good friends so that helped get the game set up.

As the story goes. McKay and Bear were playing golf and McKay mentioned he was recruiting a boy from Alabama by the name of Mitchell. Bear found out about the kid, a jr college player(I believe), and recruited him heavily. He wanted to integrate the team due to several black players trying out for the team in 1967(one who played in the A-day game, but he had to leave school for family reasons and was drafted into military service before he could return. Bear said it was unlikely that boy would have ever started, but he might have atleast played one day if he had stuck it out.

Mitchell was the beginning of the end of segregation in the SEC and he went on the be an assistant at Alabama and an assistant in the NFL.

 

[UNA Lion]

If memory serves, Bear wanted to integrate the team, that was why he wanted the game. He and John McKay were very good friends so that helped get the game set up.

That makes sense. Bryant was constantly seeking an edge in every possible respect, so if what you wrote it true then it was a stroke of genius on his part.

 

[KansasSooner]

a. Bama had black walkon players in 1967. One played in the A-day game
b. Bama ran the wishbone, not the veer option as the author states
c. author is a dumbass

Texas was the first team to run the wishbone in 1968. Bama didn't run it until 1971...

 

[trojanfan12]

That makes sense. Bryant was constantly seeking an edge in every possible respect, so if what you wrote it true then it was a stroke of genius on his part.

Yeah, there is some myth around that game, but I'm pretty certain that what I wrote is true.

One of the myths, for example, is that Bear brought "Bam" Cunningham into the Alabama locker room after the game and said "Gentlemen, this is what a football player looks like".

According to Cunningham though, Bear did go to USC's locker room and congratulate him which Cunningham considered an incredible honor.

 

[Bamabino]

Texas was the first team to run the wishbone in 1968. Bama didn't run it until 1971...

1971 is the year the author of that article referenced on Bama's return trip to USC.

 

[tideguy]

lol you sure it wasn't getting thrashed by black players at home? funny thing is much of Alabama still believes how that governor did...some things never change

Thread full of fail!

 

[tideguy]

Hey OP go find another board(site) to to stir up your racial bullshit.

Cosigned!