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Changing the Game: Looking back at one of the first Black college athletes to take the field against the all-white Texas team - Division of Diversity and Community EngagementIt was Sept. 22, 1956. The University of Texas had admitted its first Black undergraduates that semester. Everyone knew what the game meant. A Black University of Southern California running back was facing a Texas football team that would not welcome its first Black player for another 13 years. Tension hung over UT’s football stadium as C.R. Roberts, one of […]
