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Note the condescending attitude of the BYU football coach toward blacks just days from the 1970s decade: The protests and demonstrations which are being launched against BYU are just an easy entrance into other problems Negroes feel they have, Tom Hudspeth, head football coach, told the Springville Chamber of Commerce recently at an early morning breakfast meeting. ". . . We will not change our policies," he declared . . .Coach Hudspeth pointed out that he has a young Negro man on the campus now, and they feel this is the time to bring him into the athletic program. "In the past we felt we should discourage the Negroes because we felt they would not be happy in the social situation here. We have certain rules and regulations which we won't change. They must meet academic standards. We will not allow inter-racial dating. We are only 35 minutes from Salt Lake City where there is a Negro community, and we are setting up appointments and introductions there.

If you scroll down by sub-titles, this long piece can be broken up in reading...

The sports history is also fascinating in this work...Look, for example, @ the sections sub-titled:
* BYU Boycotted section (depicts what was happening late 1960s-->Early 1970s @ BYU sporting events...and how Mormon racism provoked fans)
* Problems Increase section
* Blacks at BYU section

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