Walk-on
Subtitle: my reluctant journey to integration at Auburn University : a memoir
By: Thom Gossom, Jr
Publisher: State Street Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780681960435
Subjects: Football players; Football; Auburn University; Biography; African American athletes
Description: Gossom did not set out to be a groundbreaker. He did not apply to Auburn University with the goal of being the first black athlete to graduate from the almost all-white college. He just knew he wanted to play football-- and he wanted to play football at Auburn. When he was accepted in 1970 and fought for his place on the team, he became a part of history.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Pat Sullivan; title: 2002. The Amazins; title: 1970. To play football at Auburn University; title: Doc and cat; title: Auburn and integration collide; title: Henry and the big O; title: Freshman year; title: 1971. Nigger's corner; title: Coach Ralph Shug Jordan; title: Something for the entire family!; title: Red shirt; title: 1972. The building of a team; title: Fat daddy & the zoo; title: "We're just not going to have it any other way"; title: 17-16; title: 1973. The intoxication of life; title: "You've been smoking marijuana"; title: The misery of 6-6; title: 1974. The walkout; title: First and ten; title: The Gossom incident; title: 1975. Graduation; title: 2002. Epilogue; title: About the author.