[lbo-talk] Katha Pollit

[J Cullen]

I don't know about the injured and discarded athlete Carrol taught, 
or whether he was unfairly booed, but he wasn't Iowa's first black 
quarterback.  Wilbur Hollis, was an African American quarterback who 
led Iowa to the 1960 Big 10 Co-Championship.  (That same year, Sandy 
Stephens led the University of Minnesota to a national championship 
in the Rose Bowl and became the first African-American major college 
All American quarterback. Neither of the athletes was offered the 
chance to play quarterback in the NFL. See 
http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/27-06-1102.pdf)


>I don't know if I've written on this before.
>
>About 20 years or so ago I had in freshman comp at Illinois State a young
>black man who had been the first black quarterback at the University of
>Iowa. (The Iowa fans  booed him.) His second year there he injured himself
>and for awhile was confined to a wheel chair. He lost his scholarship; but
>worse: they wanted him to pay back some fees of some sort -- I forget the
>details. And until he paid them they would not send his records to any other
>school. When he finally got into Illinois State, they tried to pressure him
>into  going out for football here; he refused -- he just wanted to get his
>degree and get away from any campus.
>
>Carrol
>
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>123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>>I was horrified to find out, after reading the Atlantic article on college
>sports, that "student atheletes" are not covered by workman's comp if they
>get injured. They're not covered by anything. It's little better than
>slavery.
>>
>>Joanna
>>
>
>Yeah, my father was on a full ride football scholarship at the U of W,
>blew out his knee as a freshman, lost his scholarship in his sophomore
>year.  He had to drop out.  This was back in the fifties; I hear the big
>schools are a bit more generous with the scholarships for injured
>athletes now, but it's still a bizarre racket.
>
>Miles
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