Thursday Night Lights : : The Story of Black High School Football in Texas / / Michael Hurd.
At a time when “Friday night lights” shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the University...
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Hurd, Michael, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Thursday Night Lights : The Story of Black High School Football in Texas / Michael Hurd. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022] ©2019 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The PVIL: Emerging from the Shadows -- Chapter 2 Night Train, Choo-Choo, and Ridin’ the Yella Dawg! -- Chapter 3 Learning and Teaching the Game -- Chapter 4 Gold in the Triangle -- Chapter 5 Yates versus Wheatley -- Chapter 6 Integration: The Good, the Bad, the End -- Acknowledgments -- Appendixes -- Select Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star At a time when “Friday night lights” shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the University Interscholastic League, which excluded black schools from membership until 1967) created an exciting brand of football that produced hundreds of outstanding players, many of whom became college All-Americans, All-Pros, and Pro Football Hall of Famers, including NFL greats such as “Mean” Joe Green (Temple Dunbar), Otis Taylor (Houston Worthing), Dick “Night Train” Lane (Austin Anderson), Ken Houston (Lufkin Dunbar), and Bubba Smith (Beaumont Charlton-Pollard). Thursday Night Lights tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of African American high school football in Texas. Drawing on interviews, newspaper stories, and memorabilia, Michael Hurd introduces the players, coaches, schools, and towns where African Americans built powerhouse football programs under the PVIL leadership. He covers fifty years (1920–1970) of high school football history, including championship seasons and legendary rivalries such as the annual Turkey Day Classic game between Houston schools Jack Yates and Phillis Wheatley, which drew standing-room-only crowds of up to 40,000, making it the largest prep sports event in postwar America. In telling this story, Hurd explains why the PVIL was necessary, traces its development, and shows how football offered a potent source of pride and ambition in the black community, helping black kids succeed both athletically and educationally in a racist society. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2022) African American football coaches Texas History 20th century. African American football coaches-Texas-History-20th century. African American football players Texas History 20th century. African American football players-Texas-History-20th century. African American high school students Texas History 20th century. Discrimination in sports Texas History 20th century. Discrimination in sports-Texas-History-20th century. Football Texas History 20th century. Football-Texas-History-20th century. Prairie View Interscholastic League (Tex.). School sports Texas History 20th century. School sports-Texas-History-20th century. SPORTS & RECREATION / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110745290 https://doi.org/10.7560/310342 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477314845 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477314845/original |
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