Zusammenfassung
The inspirational story of African American trailblazer Kenny Washington, the first player to reintegrate the NFL.
On September 29, 1946, football star Kenny Washington made history. When he trotted onto the field for the Los Angeles Rams, Washington broke the color barrier in the NFL.
In Walking Alone: The Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny Washington, Dan Taylor reveals Washington’s immeasurable impact on his sport and beyond. Legends of the game hailed Washington as one of the greatest players in football history. He was also a baseball star, and Taylor recounts never-before-told details of the efforts to make Washington the first Black player in big league baseball along with Jackie Robinson. Taylor also delves into the heinous verbal and physical abuse Washington was subjected to, his refusal to play in the South, and how he positively impacted ignorant teammates and rivals through his character and talent.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, there was no more popular athlete in Los Angeles than Kenny Washington. Walking Alone chronicles for the first time the life story of this trailblazing football legend.
Schlagworte
Integration Segregation Reintegration NFL African American History baseball National Football League black athletes Pacific Coast Football League all-star UCLA UCLA football Jackie Robinson Black football coach College football Hollywood Bears professional football integration segregation in sports Los Angeles football Kenny Washington LA Rams LA football college baseball football Hall of Fame football integration black football history integration of football integration of the NFLKeywords
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- 7–16 2: A Mea Culpa 7–16
- 23–34 4: Do We Play? 23–34
- 35–46 5: The Pass 35–46
- 99–106 12: The Drawing Card 99–106
- 107–112 13: Diverted by War 107–112
- 113–118 14; A Memorable Home Run 113–118
- 147–152 18: Dawn of a New Day 147–152
- 153–162 19: Like Old Times 153–162
- 163–174 20: Calling It a Career 163–174
- 195–200 Epilogue 195–200
- 201–214 Notes 201–214
- 215–224 Bibliography 215–224
- 225–230 Index 225–230
- 231–232 About the Author 231–232
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- „... several of the 350 draft- eligible seniors on college football teams across the country.Presiding over the ...” „... voters—college football players, 78 Chapter 91,659 in all, from ninety- one colleges throughout the country ...” „... was actually the first college football player of the year trophy, initially awarded in 1931. It ...”
- „... , Texas Christian, the reigning national champions of college football.More than 65,000 fans roared with ...” „... City College to an undefeated season and a state football title. His play brought crowds of such ...” „... an alarming phone call. “Spec” Keene, the football coach at Willamette College, was on the line ...”
- „... foot-ball fans, the annual meeting of top college stars and the NFL champions marked the beginning of ...” „... professional football champions, particularly against an opposition of recent college players. Adam Walsh began ...” „... witness professional football’s entry into a new realm. For five months the game had been subject of a ...”
- „... his football prowess. But let’s not overlook his college baseball skills. Kenny hit .397 for the ...” „... 9781538154373 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Washington, Kenny, 1918–1971. | Football—United States—History—20th ...” „... WALKING ALONEWALKING ALONEThe Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny WashingtonDAN TAYLORROWMAN ...”
- „... all races, Loyola College invited Washington to its football awards banquet, at which Alpheus Duvall ...” „... first opportunity to make an impression on the varsity coach. Spring football was a time when col-leges ...” „... could play his first college game, the Pasadena Post proclaimed him the greatest football player to ever ...”
- „... home. He was here for the most prestigious game in which any college football standout could ...” „... - graduated college seniors against the reigning National Football League champions, the Green Bay ...” „... play.Washington was selected to play in the College All- Star Game. The event matched the best of the just ...”
- „... an era when the college football season ran 11 games. Johnson was also a standout during a time when ...” „... remark-able talent. “Kenny Washington was the best football player I ever saw in my life and that includes ...” „... Nagurski, Washington was “one of the greatest football players I have ever viewed in action.”5 Fellow ...”
- „... team made up of players from the Pacific Coast Football League. The other was a college all- star team ...” „... football coach. After lengthy deliberation, the school hired a coach with college coaching ...” „... 9912THE DRAWING CARDIn Los Angeles, professional football was barely above an afterthought ...”
- „... champion. Follow-ing the college football season, Jacobs conveyed an offer to the football star—$500 per ...” „... Washington.The opportunity to earn a living in professional baseball, as with football, was off limits to ...” „... inescapably linked since his freshman year at UCLA. His freshman football coach, Norm Duncan, oversaw the ...”
- „... sportswriters, head football coaches, and college publicity men. The tenor about the room was that of hilarity ...” „... Washing-ton’s success was having on West Coast college football. Spurred by Wash-ington’s remarkable effort in ...” „... weeks, few could argue that there was a better player in college football. The week following the ...”
- „... rather than that which his father was acclaimed for, football.A nervous dad sat in the stands whenever ...” „... football games, where he sat alongside a former baseball teammate, Jim Devere, politely shook hands with ...” „... , a sensational fullback from Grambling College in Louisiana. “I saw Washington play some games for ...”
- „... Washington’s pass eclipsed a record and was the longest completed pass in college football history. Within the ...” „... disgust. For two hours, 76,000 had watched UCLA put forth one of the worst displays of football execution ...” „... more football to watch for another nine months. These fans could not stomach another play, so they ...”
- „... college football writers, traveled from the East. Associated Press sent not one but three photographers to ...” „... averaging more than 5 yards every time he touched the football.When game day arrived, a festive atmosphere ...” „... . The group was a football team. General Bob Neyland and his University of Tennessee players had only ...”
- „... , “Rugger,” 185Armstrong, Henry, 80, 123–25Armstrong, Louis, 86Associated Press College Football Poll, 64 ...” „... 225INDEXAckerman, Bill, 53Albert, Frankie, 126–28, 190, 195All-America Football Conference (AAFC ...” „... ), 135, 137All-America teams, 76–78Allison, Stub, 48American Professional Football League (APFL), 120 ...”
- „... Hollywood Bears and now in the National Football League, he had endured taunts, verbal slurs, threats, and ...” „... football story. It featured Victor Mature as a quarterback 164 Chapter 20with a heart ailment and ...” „... . The director, Jacques Tourneur, was from France and had never in his life seen a football game.To ...”
- „... every bit as good as his talent at football.Washington’s uncle Rocky rarely missed one of Kenny’s games ...” „... play football. Baseball, however, was another story. Upon joining the Los Angeles Police Department ...” „... men had professional or college baseball experience. A small handful had played in the Pacific Coast ...”
- „... at me on that first trip than I did in college football.”7For Washington, the talk about playing ...” „... leather football hurtled end over end toward the east end zone of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The ...” „... , an important end. Kickoff did not just begin the 1946 National Football League season; it marked the ...”
- „... mother, he left UCLA before graduating, first to take a government job, and then to play semipro football ...” „... pastor in Pasadena. The man had been made president of Samuel Huston College in Austin, Texas. He wanted ...” „... occurred. The Monarchs were training not far from the Huston College campus. Robinson was encouraged to try ...”
- „... 72A MEA CULPAThe fat, leather football zipped through the air with a velocity rare for a thrower of ...” „... football field were teenagers in hot pursuit. Their eyes were wide, mouths agape at the unfolding play ...” „... . With each step taken in a chase for the football, amazement heightened at what each was seeing. The ...”
- „... used to seeing.Thirteen days earlier, excitement over UCLA football had erupted into fervor. Just one ...” „... call this the best football team UCLA had ever fielded.Disappearance of the evening sun and nearing of ...” „... in the history of the school had such excitement for an away football game burst forth. During the ...”
- „... professional football. Bigger yet, Kenny Washington was thirty- one. He was the oldest rookie in any big ...” „... football took too much out of him.”5The Browns threw their best pitcher at the Giants that afternoon. Ned ...” „... throwing. Football must have tightened up his arm and shoulder muscles.”7Team executives pondered placing ...”