saint0917
March 16th, 2009, 06:57 AM
3/15/63:
After winning three SEC championships (once with a 24-1 record), only to pass up three NCAA tournament bids in the last four years to abide by an unwritten code of bigotry forbidding them to compete in racially integrated events, the Mississippi State Bulldogs basketball team literally sneaks out of Starkville in the dead of night to keep a Midwest Regional date with Loyola (Chicago) in East Lansing, Michigan. With four black starters, Loyola wins, 61-51, and in fact goes on to win the entire tournament, but just by showing up, the MSU players and coaches take a giant step toward eradicating the insidious tentacles of racism in the state of Mississippi.
B I R T H D A Y S
Punch Imlach b. 1918
Norm Van Brocklin b. 1926
Harold Baines b. 1959
Terry Cummings b. 1961
Kevin Youkilis b. 1979
After winning three SEC championships (once with a 24-1 record), only to pass up three NCAA tournament bids in the last four years to abide by an unwritten code of bigotry forbidding them to compete in racially integrated events, the Mississippi State Bulldogs basketball team literally sneaks out of Starkville in the dead of night to keep a Midwest Regional date with Loyola (Chicago) in East Lansing, Michigan. With four black starters, Loyola wins, 61-51, and in fact goes on to win the entire tournament, but just by showing up, the MSU players and coaches take a giant step toward eradicating the insidious tentacles of racism in the state of Mississippi.
B I R T H D A Y S
Punch Imlach b. 1918
Norm Van Brocklin b. 1926
Harold Baines b. 1959
Terry Cummings b. 1961
Kevin Youkilis b. 1979