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From the St. Louift Post-DispatchIn response to a petition from the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, the regents of the University of Texas have lifted a rule which forbade the playing of Negroes against white teams on Texas Western College's Kidd Field at El Paso. The immediate reason for this was the cancellation of a football game by Loyola University of Los Angeles which refused to leave a Negro player at home. Thus, Texas Western was left with a big hole in its schedule.We would like to believe that there was deeper thinking behind the lifting of the ban; that there w*as a realization that it is both inhospitable and unsportsmanlike to tell a visiting team that it may not use some of its players; that it is against the Constitution-backed American tradi-ton of equal opportunity to deny any youngAmerican the right to participate in agame, to deny him an education, or to deny him any of the rights and privileges which should be accorded to all citizens.The Texas regents, however, can scarcely be showered with compliments until they take at least the same stand they took at El Paso in connection with the state university and the other schools under their jurisdiction.(This editorial came from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of the country’s leading newspapers —ed.)
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El Paso Prospector
El Paso, Texas, US
Sat, Nov 11, 1950
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