![]() ![]() ![]() I learned about them later as his influence over my point of view diminished and others took his place. I never knew about Michael Jordan's politics, or lack thereof, when I was growing up, either. I just knew that Jack Trice Stadium was where I went and watched Iowa State play football. ![]() I never knew that story when I was a kid. He died two days later from internal bleeding. Doctors examined him and sent him home on the team bus. He had broken his collarbone in the first half and was stomped on by several players on a roll block in the second half. The game was vicious and afterwards Trice was taken to a hospital. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Watch out for crossbucks and reverse end runs. Fight low, with your eyes open and toward the play. On all defensive plays I must break through the opponents' line and stop the play in their territory. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part. I will! My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field tomorrow. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. The night before the game, he wrote these words: "My thoughts just before the first real college game of my life: The honor of my race, family & self is at stake. In his second collegiate game, on October 6, 1923, he faced the Gophers at Northrop Field in Minneapolis. He was the first African-American to play football at Iowa State. The first football stadium I ever went to was named for Jack Trice. It always feels like the intersection of sports, race and politics is something new, but, of course, it stretches behind all of us. like, 'I'm not black, I'm O.J.' Okay." - Jay-Z "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is true." - Nathaniel Hawthorne ![]()
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