espn.go/video/clip?id=espn:9846878 IN 1974 THE SENIOR PLAYERS ON THE IOWA STATE FOOTBALL TEAM ALSO REBELLED AND REFUSED TO TAKE THE PRACTICE FIELD IN PROTEST TO HOW BLACK PLAYERS WERE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY...... EARL BRUCE ........THE HEAD COACH AT .......IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY....... AT THE TIME. BLACK ALL AMERICANS, BLACK ALL BIG EIGHT CONFERENCE PLAYERS WERE BEING BENCHED AND REPLACED BY INFERIOR LESS TALENTED WHITE PLAYERS. THE JAWS OF BLACK AND WHITE PLAYERS HUNG TO THE FLOOR TO WHAT WAS BEING DONE. EARL BRUCES RACIAL OPPRESSIVE AND JIM CROW PRACTICES AGAINST PROVEN AND HONORED BLACK PLAYERS GOT SO ABUSIVE AND OUTRAGEOUS SENIORS REFUSED TO ALLOW THE TEAM TO TAKE THE FIELD; AND DEMANDED A MEETING WITH EARL BRUCE TO VOICE THEIR DISGUIST AND REFUSAL TO GO ALONG WITH THE OVERT PRACTICES OF INTENTIONAL RACIAL OPPRESSION BY EARL BRUCE AND HIS ALL WHITE ASSISTANT COACHES; BEFORE BRUCE ARRIVED AT IOWA STATE THEY HAD EARNED A NATIONAL RANKING FOR THEIR PROVEN SKILLS AND PLAY; BRUCES OVERT RACIAL DISCRIMINATION MEANT A SURE DESTRUCTION OF THE NUMBER ONE RANKED DEFENSE IN THE COUNTRY AND A TOP RANKED TEAM OVERALL BY JIM CROW RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. THIS PROTEST DID NOT GET NATIONAL ATTENTION. WHY? LIKE YOU SAY WHEN PLAYERS REBEL AGAINST THE HEAD COACH THERE MUST BE SOME TRUTH IN WHAT THEY ARE PROTESTING ABOUT; THEY HAVE EVERYTHING TO LOSE AND NOTHING TO GAIN BY PROTESTING; ALSO THEY ARE NOT KNOW FOR STANDING UP FOR MATTERS CONCERNING JUSTICE AND OPPRESSION; LIKE THE OVERT AND BLATANT RACISM PRACTICED BY EARL BRUCE AGAINST BLACK PLAYERS AT IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY DURING HIS TENURE, THE PLAYERS AT GRAMMING SHOULD BE HEARD.
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