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September 18, 1967
?John Bridges, football coach at Baylor, which is Baptist, on Tommy Reaux, who is a potential guard: "I think when a Negro Catholic boy pays his own way to go to Baylor, he ought to get a chance to play."
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September 18, 1967

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?John Bridges, football coach at Baylor, which is Baptist, on Tommy Reaux, who is a potential guard: "I think when a Negro Catholic boy pays his own way to go to Baylor, he ought to get a chance to play."

? Ray Nagel, Iowa football coach, wryly explaining the major leagues' hands-off rule on college undergraduates after Ray Larsen, sophomore prospect, quit for pro baseball: "The major leagues are fine people and now have a special rule that says they won't touch college players—unless they're good."

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