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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 791773, member: 27"]
As the article refers to in passing, Marty Glickman was on the 1937 Syracuse football team.  He said one of his biggest regrets in his life was accepting SU's decision to comply with Maryland's demand to bench Sidat-Singh.

He knew it was wrong and he thought about refusing to play to support his friend and teammate, but couldn't find the courage and conviction to do it.  As one of the team's stars, his refusal to play might have been a difference.  The angst and sorrow in his face as he talked about the situation some 50 years afterwards haunts me to this day.

Glickman had felt the sting of racism himself the year previous when he was benched from participating in the 4 x 100 relay for the US team in the 1936 Olympics, allegedly because USOC chairman Avery Brundage wanted to avoid embarrassing Adolf Hitler by having Jewish athletes win gold medals in Berlin.

I wish the journalists at the time focused more on exposing the racist administrators at Maryland that made this decision (Maryland wasn't even integrated until 1951 and then only by court order) rather than the people they ended up victimizing with their stories.

[URL='http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/1995/05/as_old_friends_gather_to_honor.html']Good Story on Glickman and Sidat-Sing[/URL]h

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