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Game of the Century marked the change in college sports for Black athletes

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It seems bizarre to imagine a time when college sports did not include Black athletes. In my lifetime, I cannot remember a time when my team, the Oklahoma Sooners, did not have significant football players who were Black.
 
The first I remember as a young fan was the outstanding nose guard, Granville Liggins, who starred in the 1968 Orange Bowl victory over Tennessee – the first television broadcast of an OU game that I can remember watching.
 
(At the time Tennessee had not integrated its football team. Their first Black football player came a year after the Vols lost that night to Liggins and the Sooners 26-24. I did not realize OU was playing against an all-white team when I watched the game in our living room. I don’t believe I, at age 9, knew the significance of that).
 

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Sooners put a cat-a-whomping on Western Carolina, 76-0

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After a sputtering first game win last week the Oklahoma Sooners put on a dominant show Saturday night in their 76-0 win over Western Carolina in Norman.

Wide receiver Jadon Haselwood scored two touchdowns in the first half on passes from Spencer Rattler, who went 20 of 26 for 243 yards and five passing TDs for the game.

The shifty running back Eric Gray lead rushers with 74 yards on nine carries, and also scored a 20-yard receiving TD. 

The Sooners defense also controlled the Catamount’s offense throughout the night, limited Western Carolina to only three of 15 third-down conversions and 55 yards rushing. 

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Sooners survive Green Tidal Wave 40-35 in ugly opener

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Before kickoff Sooner fans clapped to the Tulane fight song being played by the Oklahoma band.

And when the Tulane team came onto the field the crowd — in attendance numbers reduced by the last minute moving of the game to Norman because of Hurricane Ida and no doubt also by COVID concerns — gave them a warm ovation. 

Not a single boo was heard. Not even from the student section. That is something unheard of in recent memory.

But those fans began to wonder whether their charitable nature was being taken advantage of by the fourth quarter, when the Green Wave had the Sooners backs against the wall and it took a much-needed defensive stand to keep Tulane from upsetting No. 2 Oklahoma.

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