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vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Prologue 1 1 Beyond Jackie Robinson: Racial Integration in American College Football and New Directions in Sport History 5 2 “On the Threshold of Broad and Rich Football Pastures”: Integrated College Football at UCLA, 1938–1941 28 3 “A Fist That Was Very Much Intentional”: Postwar Football in the Midwest and the 1951 Johnny Bright Scandal 49 4 “We Play Anyone”: Deciphering the Racial Politics of Georgia Football and the 1956 Sugar Bowl Controversy 72 5 “Beat the Devil Out of BYU”: Football and Black Power in the Mountain West, 1968–1970 102 Epilogue 134 Notes 143 Selected Bibliography 169 Index 175 ...

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