CR Roberts, Milestone Game Scoring Sensation, Dies at 87

CR Roberts, a Black running back at the University of Southern California, feared what would happen when his integrated Trojans football team traveled to the Jim Crow South to play the all-white University of Texas Longhorns in Austin in 1956. There were death threats before the game. He wondered: Would the shotgun blast from the… Continue reading CR Roberts, Milestone Game Scoring Sensation, Dies at 87