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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3361861, member: 27"] I am a little too young to have followed the program when the protest happened but I can say going by memory only, the number of African Americans on the team increased under Coach Maloney quite dramatically. By the late 1970s, Tim Wilson, an African American, was starting at QB and there were a lot of other minorities in starting roles on offense and defense. Ben had a couple of African Americans starting at QB early in his coaching career at Syracuse (Custis and Stone) but that ended pretty early. From comments I have read made by Jim Brown, it sounded like Stone dated a white girl and that freaked out Ben and he limited opportunities for minorities pretty severely from that point forward. It is a sad thing and even sadder, Syracuse was relatively progressive in this area at that time. [/QUOTE]