UNC, UVA football teams’ histories illustrate sports and race issues

Posted Oct 25, 2014
In 1936, UNC became the first major Southern university to go north and play football against a desegregated team. Eleven years later, the University of Virginia became the first major university in the South to host an integrated football team. Both events were significant steps in the desegregation of college football, said Matthew Andrews ’08 (PhD), a sports historian at UNC. (UNC General Alumni Association)

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