It’s not like my dad’s college coach, Duffy Daugherty, just woke up one day and announced to his family on the way home from Mass on Easter Sunday that he was going to desegregate college football. From what I understand, there was no apparition or visit from an archangel or the Blessed Virgin. He didn’t look up in the rearview mirror at his adolescent son, Danny, in the back seat and say, How ’bout we get some Black players on the team? like something out of a Kevin Costner movie. It was so gradual that a lot of people missed it, forgot about it, or have no idea how significant Duffy
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