February 21st, 2011
C. Jones

College football’s color barrier

Jerry LeVias going to SMU is nice and all, but Texas college football’s color barrier had already been broken by the great Abner Haynes and Leon King at North Texas in 1956.  In fact, Haynes had already been playing in the AFL for a few years by the time LeVias showed up in University Park.

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