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A Historical View Of St. Cloud State University Women's Athletics, Anne E. Abicht
A Historical View Of St. Cloud State University Women's Athletics, Anne E. Abicht
Culminating Projects in Kinesiology
Since the late 1800s women have participated in some form of athletic activity on the St. Cloud State University campus. It was not until the 1960s that a women's intercollegiate athletic program was introduced to the SCSU campus by Fran Bleick and Gladys Ziemer. Since the 1960s, the SCSU women's athletics program has grown to support 11 teams, competing at some of the highest levels of athletic competition.
As women's athletics at SCSU continues to grow, it is important to have a documented history of the program so that future generations of male and female athletes will understand the significance …
Black Power In Green And White: Integration And Black Protest In Michigan State University Football, 1947-1972, John Matthew Smith
Black Power In Green And White: Integration And Black Protest In Michigan State University Football, 1947-1972, John Matthew Smith
Masters Theses
While southern college football teams remained all white until the late 1960s and early 1970s, Michigan State University head football coach Duffy Daugherty formed championship teams in 1965 and 1966 by recruiting the best southern black players. While coaches in the North recruited black athletes and played them regularly by the mid-1950s, no other coach took the risks Daugherty did to integrate his teams. Duffy Daugherty's path-breaking teams broke all the rules of integrated competition and forced southern schools to reconsider their stance on segregated college football.
The ground breaking integration of black athletes in the mid-1950s and 1960s under …