STAX on and Wax the Wake . . clikckckc on
Headin' south. On April 27, 1962, Wake Forest University trustees made the decision to end racial segregation at Wake Forest.The university is the sixth-smallest school in FBS in terms of undergraduate enrollment (behind only Rice, Tulsa and the three FBS United States service academies). It is also the smallest school playing in a Power Five conference. Little Wake.
Brian Piccolo
Piccolo's "increasing…sensitivity to racial issues," because of his friendship with Gayle Sayers, led him to help fellow alumni John Mackovic recruit the first African-American football players at Wake Forest. They brought a number of these recruits to meet Reynolds who encouraged them to come to the college. Robert Grant, Kenneth Henry, and Willie Smith enrolled in the fall of 1964, making Wake Forest the first college in the ACC to integrate its football program.
Billy Packer ('62), now a noted television announcer, played a similar role in recruiting basketball players that Piccolo had played in football. In the winter of 1959, Packer, a Demon Deacon guard, traveled across town to see Cleo Hill play at Winston-Salem Teachers College. The experience led Packer and Hill to organize scrimmages between the two squads at each others' gym without the permission of their respective coaches, Horace "Bones" McKinney and Clarence "Big House" Gaines. These integrated contests were illegal in Jim Crow south, operating outside of the purview of the press and the police.
mugsy bogues . . . . .
Here it is:
And the Stadium
Capacity 31,500; attendance last year: Wake Forest 27,210
Good day tomorrow for 98, darius:
STAX ON!!!
Headin' south. On April 27, 1962, Wake Forest University trustees made the decision to end racial segregation at Wake Forest.The university is the sixth-smallest school in FBS in terms of undergraduate enrollment (behind only Rice, Tulsa and the three FBS United States service academies). It is also the smallest school playing in a Power Five conference. Little Wake.
Brian Piccolo
Piccolo's "increasing…sensitivity to racial issues," because of his friendship with Gayle Sayers, led him to help fellow alumni John Mackovic recruit the first African-American football players at Wake Forest. They brought a number of these recruits to meet Reynolds who encouraged them to come to the college. Robert Grant, Kenneth Henry, and Willie Smith enrolled in the fall of 1964, making Wake Forest the first college in the ACC to integrate its football program.
Billy Packer ('62), now a noted television announcer, played a similar role in recruiting basketball players that Piccolo had played in football. In the winter of 1959, Packer, a Demon Deacon guard, traveled across town to see Cleo Hill play at Winston-Salem Teachers College. The experience led Packer and Hill to organize scrimmages between the two squads at each others' gym without the permission of their respective coaches, Horace "Bones" McKinney and Clarence "Big House" Gaines. These integrated contests were illegal in Jim Crow south, operating outside of the purview of the press and the police.
mugsy bogues . . . . .
Here it is:
And the Stadium
Capacity 31,500; attendance last year: Wake Forest 27,210
Good day tomorrow for 98, darius:
STAX ON!!!
