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INTEGRATING NEW YEAR S DAY: THE RACIAL
POLITICS OF COLLEGE BOWL GAMES IN THE
AMERICAN SOUTH.
Author: Martin, Charles H.
Author
Background:
Date 1/1/97
• Type Journal
Journal Title: Journal of Sport History
Volume/Pages 24(3)p.358-377
Publisher
Subject
Matter African American
Population
Pedagogies
Abstract Traces the racial histories of four college football bowl games, the Sun,
Sugar, Cotton, and Orange, between 1935 and 1965. During the 1930 s
and early 1940 s, conservative whiteSoutherners barred African
Americans from these games. Northern teams accepted this application
of Jim Crow because the profits and prestige of the big games were too
great to giveup. After World War II, Northern schools forced Southern
bowl committees to modify segregation or risk excluding the best teams
in the nation. By 1954, militant segregationists; concerned overthe
weakening of Jim Crow, sought to reassert exclusion. They failed and
the bowl games were able to implement a permanent policy of inclusion.
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