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A Life in Football, Interrupted

The National Football League remained virtually all white when Will joined the Bears in the summer of 1959 for pre-season training and games. The league had formally banned Black players from 1934 to 1945. Will wasn’t Michigan’s first Black player in t…

The National Football League remained virtually all white when Will joined the Bears in the summer of 1959 for pre-season training and games. The league had formally banned Black players from 1934 to 1945. Will wasn’t Michigan’s first Black player in the league; Eddie Macon, a running back drafted in 1952, preceded Will by five years. Still, the league discouraged this, maintaining as best it could a color line. More

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