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Oct 4, 1996 · Royal's supporters claim there were two reasons he could not find any blacks to play on his team between 1963 and 1970: 1) High academic standards at UT and 2) blacks did not want to play for...
Aug 30, 2021 · “Darrell was quite pronounced in not wanting any Negroes on his team until other Southwest Conference teams admit them and until the housing problem is solved or conditions change.”
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In 1953, as coach of the Edmonton Eskimos, Royal tongue-lashed his white players for their racist invective. He and Edith befriended the black pros, helping to ease their Canadian isolation.
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Jun 17, 2020 · On June 4, after one of their first in-person practices since the coronavirus outbreak, the Texas Longhorns football team lined up outside Darrell K Royal—Texas Memorial Stadium and began to...
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Jul 8, 2021 · “The Eyes of Texas” History Committee released their 59-page report that determined the song was written in a “racist setting,” but is not “overtly racist”. The song debuted at a minstrel show on May 12, 1903, but there was no photographic evidence of the song being used in blackface and no evidence the phrase “the eyes of Texas ...
Aug 9, 2021 · He was painted as a racist and as a brutal, uncaring demagogue by a former player, Gary Shaw, in a book called ”Meat on the Hoof.” Shaw admittedly never liked football and liked Royal even less.
Jul 14, 2020 · University officials said they would erect a statute for Julius Whittier, who joined the Longhorns in 1970 and became the team’s first Black football player, at Darrell K. Royal-Texas...
