fluegelhorn837
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11/28/02 09:03 PM
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Joe Frantz was a wonderful prof. I had for a history class and I will always remember something he said, and I paraphrase.
<The Democrats are really dumb---but the Republicans are dummer.>
He also wrote a biography of LBJ and may be still teaching at the university in Corpus Christi, or was, the last time I heard. I think the school is affiliated with ATM. I will not pronounce him prematurely deceased as I did Prentiss Gautt.
Franz wrote and taught in the rich Texas tradition of J. Frank Dobe, Roy Bedicheck and the other great UT prof(whos name escapes me at the moment) memorialized in statue at Barton Springs.
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pmg
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11/28/02 10:14 PM
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Frantz died about ten years ago; he ended up teaching at CCSU (now Texas A*M at CC).
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Wesley
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11/29/02 03:54 AM
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srr50,
Sam '"Bam" Cunningham played for USC in the mid-70's. By then, Alabama had been ingregated for several years.
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Buckshot
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11/29/02 09:58 AM
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I was student from '67 to '71. The '69 team was the last all white team to win the national championship. This factoid was documented on the day after the win over ND in the Cotton Bowl by Houston Post columnist Mickey Herscowitz (sp?) who mentioned that that team would probably be the last all-white team NC. Ever since, it's been reported as true. And I beleive it is.
I do remeber some black students who were involved in recruiting black athletes to UT. They were guys Coach Royal had personally contacted to help him recrutie black athletes.
I am not sure if BYU had any black players on the NC team they had. Surely there were some or somebody wuld have made a federal case against thier being NC's with only white players.
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Salt City Sooner
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11/29/02 11:29 AM
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Don't know about blacks on their team (I would assume so), but I do remember they had a very good Samoan fullback named Lakei Heimuli.
"Who's your daddy Gerry?"
-Herman Boone-
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srr50
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11/29/02 12:03 PM
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Wesley: Nope -- read below
'fullback Sam “Bam” Cunningham, traveled to Dixieland on September 12, 1970 and thrashed Alabama, 42-21. Not only was Sam Cunningham a powerful runner, but he was the first player in college football to go over the top during a goal line stand. Later, former Bear Bryant assistant coach Jerry Claiborne noted, “Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in 60 minutes that night than Martin Luther King had accomplished in 20 years.”
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." – Confucius
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MissouHorn
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11/29/02 10:20 PM
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I am a 1998 Texas grad and an African American. I am extremely proud of my Texas degree and cherish the memories of my years at Texas. I had and have friends from every ethnicity. My dormmate at The Dobie was white as well as my apartment roommate during my sophomore through junior years. I had never encountered any racial discrimination or anything of that nature. I am shocked that UT reportedly was the last non-integretated National Champion, but I do understand that was then (sign of our ugly past), and this is now (Texas is probably the most integrated of any of the Big 12 schools)!! I even read that Chris Simms was roommates with either Quentin Jammer or currently with Rod Babers, I am not sure which player, but I do know that the player is or was African American. That just goes to show you the racial unity and inclusiveness on this team now as compared to the times then. Especially when the highest profile player on the team (whom just happens to be white rooms with a fellow non-white player. I also read that Simms took Roy Williams and another African American player to his New Jersey home to meet his family and to show them around New York. I am truly glad that Simms decided to attend UT and ended his last home game on such a high note. Although he had his detractors, I was always a fan, and from all accounts that I have read and heard from friends of some of the athletes still on campus, he is one of the most down to earth people that one could ever meet.
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AllAg
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12/01/02 03:11 AM
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Actually Rabid, A&M was the FIRST team in the SWC to have black players....
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