MY SOURCES

Once you begin looking, you can find extensive materials online related to the types of racial matters which involved race-based exclusion of black athletes from intercollegiate competition. Quite a bit of this material is based on books, pamphlets, and other writings no longer generally available. It was an online search that led me to what easily became my most extensive source of information on my subject -Charles H Martin's 2010 book BENCHING JIM CROW: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE COLOR LINE IN SOUTHERN COLLEGE SPORTS, 1890 -1980. (University of Illinois Press). Martin is a professor of history on the faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) UTEP, under its earlier name of Texas Western University, rates its own place in American athletic history. In 1966, Texas Western won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, starting five black players for the first time in US college sports history, defeating the all-white team from the University of Kentucky. I found more facts that help me write my story in Martin's book than from any other single source.

Also Helpful:
"Prolate Spheroid" from the website www.pigskinhistory.blogspot.com (Sunday, May 17,2009)

www.drexel.edu/-rosen/sportsFolderiTheB lackA thletei oBi g-Timelntercollegi ate Sports41-68.pdf by Donald Spivey

"King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels" by Michael Oriard.

SPORTS AND THE COLOR LINE BLACK ATHLETES AND RACE RELATIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Patrick B. Miller & David Kenneth Wiggins

100 PIONEERS: AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO BROKE THE COLOR BARRIER IN SPORT by Richard Lapchick, founder, Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, and President/CEO of the National Consortium for Academics and Sport, 2008. West Virginia University Press.

"Jesuit College and University Football Teams and African Americans" claver.gprep.org/fac/sjochs/jesuitcollegesanduniversities-football.htm

"Tackling Jim Crow: Segregation on the College Gridiron, 1936 -1941" Kevin Gregg. Master's Thesis, Boston College 2005

COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S GENTLEMENS' AGREEMENT: THE HISTORY OF THE SPORT'S UNOFFICIAL POLICY OF RACIAL EXCLUSION
http://johncassara.net/timeline.html

"The Color Line in Midwestern College Sports, 1890 -1960"
Charles H. Martin. Indiana Magazine of History 98, no.2 (2002); 84-112.

"Integrating New Years Day: The Racial Politics of College Bowl Games in
the American South". Journal of Sport History 24 no. 3 (1997) 358-377.

"Slouching Toward a New Expediency: College Football and the Color Line
During the Depression Decade" American Studies 40. no 3 (1999) 5-30.
by Patrick B. Miller

Donald Spivey "End Jim Crow in Sports: The Protest at New York
University, 1940 -1941. Journal of Sport History 15, no 3 (1988) 282-303 .

A HARD ROAD TO GLORY: A HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ATHLETE, 1619 -1918. Arthur Ashe. Warner Books, NY 1988.

BLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL, 1892 -1992: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY, EDUCATION AND PRIDE Michael Hurd. Donning Press, Virginia Beach VA 1993 .

GLORY BOUND: BLACK ATHLETES IN A WHITE AMERICA. David K. Wiggins. Syracuse University Press, 1997

THE UNLEVEL PLAYING FIELD: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN SPORT. David. K. Wiggins. The University of Illinois Press 2003

"Jim Crow in the Big House: The Benching ofWillis Ward and the Rise of Segregation in the North" Tyvan Kai Steward. Master's Thesis. Eastern Michigan University

"Jim Crow, Halfback" by Glenn Stout. BOSTON Magazine, Dec. 1987. 124 -131

Encyclopedia of Alabama. "Integration of College Athletics"

www.encyclopediaofalabama orglface/ArticlePrintable.jsp?id=h-1668

Lou Montgomery obituary. The Boston Globe. 2/3/93

www.blackatblete.net. "College Football: the Courage to Change" by Michael Hudson. 10113/05

www.profootballresearchers.orgiCoffinCornerlll-04-373.pdf

The Coffin Corner: Vol. 11, no. 4 (1989) Outside the Pale: The Exclusion of Blacks from the National Football League, 1934 -1946. by Thomas G. Smith, Nichols College. Originally published in Journal of Sport History.