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uvo 4AilgVivO imuu vjw vv«i. v*v* j •What is more important, S.M. U. gained the reputation of being a good sport.It happens that on the West Coast there is no racial discrimination ant? that Negroes are often included on athletic teams. Kenny Washington and Woodrow Wilson Strode play football for U.C.L.A. andboth are Negroes.Los Angeles newspapers carried several stories on the probable conflict between the “Southern Gentlemen” of S. M.U. and the Negroes of U.C. L.A. Columnists questioned whether or not S.M.U. players would foul the Negroes. Some went so far as to say that the “Southerners will probably be penalized a hundred or so yards for roughing Washington and Strode.” Because no Southern team had ever allowed the Negroes to play without roughing them, the Los Angeles sportsmen could not understand that S. M.U. breeds athletes, but also gentlemen.After the game Kenny Washington, U.C.L.A.’s star backfield man and a member of the Negro race, said, “They hit me hard but they played me square.”There can be no finer tribute to an athlete.
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Dallas Campus
Dallas, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 24, 1937
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