While MSC was willing to put its best players on the field regardless of race, the college observed a gentleman’s agreement when playing schools in the South. Northern schools would effectively bench Black players as a kind of neighborly way of upholding the white supremacy fancied by the southern way of life.
MSC sat their All American running back Horace Smith in 1946 against Mississippi State. The University of Kentucky first played against a black football player when they played MSC with Horace Smith starting. MSC lost.
