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Jack Olson
July 01, 1968
The black athlete on campus: urged by recruiters to join a society that ill suits him, he is excluded from the school community and demeaned by men who do not understand his special problems. He is wholly in the hands of one figure—his coach—who tells him not only how to play, but what to study, how to live and—above all—whom he must never date.
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The black athlete on campus: urged by recruiters to join a society that ill suits him, he is excluded from the school community and demeaned by men who do not understand his special problems. He is wholly in the hands of one figure—his coach—who tells him not only how to play, but what to study, how to live and—above all—whom he must never date.

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