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Nat Northington, who attended the University of Kentucky, was the first African American to play in a football game for an SEC school. The year was 1967 and the game was against the University of Mississippi.
Bob Yancy and Ben Franklin of Boston University (1937) The first Black selected for All-American basketball honors was Don Barksdale of UCLA (1947) The first Black signed by a National Basketball Assn. team was Charles (Chuck) Cooper, who joined the New York Knicks (1950)
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Babe Zaharias in 1935 was the first black woman athlete on a Wheaties box