BeastMan
09-24-2019, 09:39 AM
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Had zero black players. Two all-white rosters playing for the title. Weird to think about and that isn?t that long ago. Hard to imagine my dad being 11 and watching a National Championship of all white players. There are 2 major takeaways in my opinion from that fact:
(1) We have come a long way in 50 years as a society. Not saying we are there but you cannot deny progress that has been made
(2) Football 50 years ago was not really real football. That may make some mad but it just wasn?t. Not saying we shouldn?t honor those from yesteryear but it makes you wonder what year is the real starting point of real modern CFB?
To answer #2 from a MSU pov is have to say somewhere around 1980. For context Don Smith played QB from 83-86 and the first ever black player at Alabama was 71-74, first in the SEC was 67-71. You cannot start it at 67-71 imo because the rosters weren?t diverse yet. I think 1980 is a solid starting point. I?d like to hear the boards opinion on that, especially Thick.
And while we?re here, does anyone know who MSU?s first black player was? It was Frank Dowsing and I never hear his name brought up. Dude was a hell of a player
He enrolled at Mississippi State University, where he became the school?s first black football player, earned All-America honors as a defensive back, was named to the Academic All-America team and was voted by fellow students as Mr. Mississippi State before being drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles and attending medical school. Classmates, white and black, remember Dowsing as a shining light: smart, charismatic, kind and strong.
The way his life ended probably has something to do with why you don?t hear his name but it shouldn?t.
Link> https://www.google.com/amp/s/theundefeated.com/features/frank-dowsing-mississippi-states-first-black-football-player-is-almost-unknown-today/amp/
Had zero black players. Two all-white rosters playing for the title. Weird to think about and that isn?t that long ago. Hard to imagine my dad being 11 and watching a National Championship of all white players. There are 2 major takeaways in my opinion from that fact:
(1) We have come a long way in 50 years as a society. Not saying we are there but you cannot deny progress that has been made
(2) Football 50 years ago was not really real football. That may make some mad but it just wasn?t. Not saying we shouldn?t honor those from yesteryear but it makes you wonder what year is the real starting point of real modern CFB?
To answer #2 from a MSU pov is have to say somewhere around 1980. For context Don Smith played QB from 83-86 and the first ever black player at Alabama was 71-74, first in the SEC was 67-71. You cannot start it at 67-71 imo because the rosters weren?t diverse yet. I think 1980 is a solid starting point. I?d like to hear the boards opinion on that, especially Thick.
And while we?re here, does anyone know who MSU?s first black player was? It was Frank Dowsing and I never hear his name brought up. Dude was a hell of a player
He enrolled at Mississippi State University, where he became the school?s first black football player, earned All-America honors as a defensive back, was named to the Academic All-America team and was voted by fellow students as Mr. Mississippi State before being drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles and attending medical school. Classmates, white and black, remember Dowsing as a shining light: smart, charismatic, kind and strong.
The way his life ended probably has something to do with why you don?t hear his name but it shouldn?t.
Link> https://www.google.com/amp/s/theundefeated.com/features/frank-dowsing-mississippi-states-first-black-football-player-is-almost-unknown-today/amp/